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Streets littered with rubbish and dustbins. Police guard volunteers who clear rubbish.
At Philadelphia’s stadium the Army v Navy football match is played in thick fog. The army are confident of a win, but the tables are turned when the Navy beat them ten to nothing.
Republican Party Convention hears nominations. Tom Dewey is named first, then Senator Taft and Wendell Wilkie. Dewey leads on the first three ballots but by the sixth it’s down to Wilkie and Taft. Then...
Demonstration of building given by two chimpanzees at Philadelphia Zoo, but they end up eating the mortar.
Chimpanzees from Philadelphia Zoo give a display of bricklaying, but end up eating the mortar.
Ambassador Bullitt makes outspoken speech. New Jersey Klu Klux Klan and American Nazis get together. New York President Roosevelt and Mr Mackenzie King make defence plans. New York One hundred and thirty...
Huge majority re-elects President Roosevelt, making first to be chosen for third term.
America’s biggest football match completes its fiftieth anniversary.
Secretary of War Stimson, Secretary of Navy Knox and General Marshall are spectators at annual Army and Navy football match in which the Navy are the victors. Crowds storm the pitch after the match.
President sees first US Armoured Division. Thirty Axis ships seized by coastguards.
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