YESTERDAYS NEWSREEL - 1930 TAMMANY HALL SCANDAL & SEN. JIMMY WALKER RADIO MONTICELLO

[Music] television highlights are the news of yesteryear [Music] [Music] [Applause] here's New York State Senator James Walker in 1925 Democratic candidate for mayor of New York City votes are in so Jimmy goes out of town to rest for job ahead for he's beaten his Republican rival by more than two to one and his mayor elect of largest city in the world in middle of America's decade of delirium the gay life the easy dollar prohibition and Tim finale jazz Walker returns to Manhattan to become 100 mayor of the town typical of the times one of mayor Walker's first official acts is opening a baseball season at New York's Polo Grounds with John McGraw Town Giants finish season in 5th place don't win pennant for eight years and then though there's no connection the Walker era is over but during his reign he's good time executive and one of the most popular figures in America here sports minded Jimmy received the thoroughbred Cedar King from citizens satisfied with Walker's way of doing things as commander Richard Ebert prepares for his Antarctic expedition in 1928 mayor Walker is spokesman for fir Union which made this cold weather garb for birds adventurers in Washington 8th of March 1928 Jimmie has an appointment with Calvin Coolidge and makes headlines by keeping the president waiting 40 minutes all America did was laugh for these were happy times the giddy days of flappers gun malls tin lizzies and bathtub Jim flagpole sitters and Amie McPherson Barney gogo Lindbergh and Wall Street's big bull market born in Greenwich Village Walker his hometown boy who made good on every Boulevard and Backstreet bounded by the sidewalks of New York easily the most glamorous political figure of his time Tammany's fair-haired boy has June date with Lillian Andres Miss America of 1929 but it's all just official business of course in October of the same year he leads official welcome for mr. Britain Prime Minister of England Ramsay MacDonald running for reelection he opposes Republican candidate Fiorello LaGuardia and beats him badly as Walker sits down at his desk for another four-year term in City Hall the nation is voting Herbert Hoover into the White House in just a few days only a few blocks away Wall Street's great god of speculation tumbles from his tower lives and fortunes are lost panic follows and depression is just around the corner and under gathering clouds of personal defeat he's still light-hearted carefree amiable Jimmy Walker of earlier days hereby request he contributes one of his famous berries for auction in 1931 campaign against cancer in Albany now governor Franklin Roosevelt is making changes Jimmy cheerfully flies to California on a hurried mission you will welcome to California this time not to the city of San Francisco but to California well y'all join with me and that welcome to Jimmy welcome mayor of New York you know the only difficulty but it is the mayor of California [Music] and 1932 and explosive legal findings of Samuel Seabury bring an end to public life and service of Jimmy Walker in can France April 19 1933 shorn of his role as playboy mayor he marries actress Betty Compton and lives in exile Playboy still but now only in private life then after three years abroad Jimmy comes back to the place of his birth scene of his triumphs and defeat and for Jimmy Walker the site of Manhattan towers is indeed a thrilled that skyline may look great to visitors but to me it looks glorious and when in 1946 he died he rode once more the streets of his hometown but the faces he made bright with laughter now were sad for New York City's Jimmy Walker has passed into memory [Music] [Applause] in Broadcasting's baby days starring Mills group violins that mechanical monstrosity in foreground here are rare films of early studio program it's metal 1920s and radios just outgrown its crystal set era as this child demonstrates to America's growing radio audience how easy it is to get music from this machine age string section if you don't believe this is a long time ago look at that microphone here group sings while Robert fiddles play and yes mrs. Theodore do Merlin listening in her bonnet go home smiling from ear phone to ear phone too here's Ohio congressman Nicholas Longworth in early 1920s when he was Majority Leader and Speaker of the House and here's Fame girl he married President Teddy Roosevelt's daughter Alice whom he weds in nineteen six here Mr Speaker lets his wife do the talking in her Washington office in mid nineteen twenties is Mabel Walker willebrandt Assistant US Attorney General from 1921 to her resignation in nineteen twenty nine brilliant West Coast lawyer she handled thousands of government cases and most of them were violations of prohibition law teacher's pet projects here in 1920s are Jascha Heifetz on left and Efrem Zimbalist even in younger days they are world famous says concert virtuosos both studied in st. Petersburg Russia under Leopold our wonderful so taught them this it's June 5th 1921 and Pueblo Colorado is nearly pulverized by impartial floodwaters of raging Arkansas River sudden and heavy deluge in uplands fifteen miles west of town swells River and sends giant wall of water through pueblos like a plow proceeding water leaves sea of mud and wreckage in its wake almost every building every Bridge every type of dwelling and mode of transportation and communication is smashed beyond repair and one time webelo was under 18 feet of swiftly moving waters adding to horror fire breaks out in lumberyard gas and oil tanks explode and even floodwaters burn still later more rain in hill lands bursts Mountain dams reap letting already stricken town property damage runs high and toll of lives is tragic scores are missing and even early counting pueblos proved 200 persons dead [Music] it's 13th of April 1943 and on 180th birthday of Thomas Jefferson nation he once saw no be served requires his mother cello home near Charlottesville Virginia until today is congressman Jefferson my be very happy indeed that Monticello will now become a National Shrine money for purchase is raised by Thomas Jefferson Memorial associations goal was 1 million dollars and they got it easily after nine months of fundraising Maura cello belongs to America [Music] here's a mortal member of our once great fleet of lighter-than-air craft and here in bermudez Hamilton harbor ship Patoka offers more-- it's April 22nd 1925 as dirigible Los Angeles makes more aviation history for this is first time airship has been moored at sea here on flight from Lakehurst New Jersey dirigible took off at 6:00 this morning will refuel at Harbor mooring and be home by 9:00 tonight [Music] best-dressed woman on Broadway actors and Andrews shows what the well-dressed woman wears on an afternoon in the 1920s for an evening at the theater and after hours at her favorite speakeasy she wears this gown with flowing skirt and square cut back this gown of gold has an over dress of Ned and embroidery can you fancy yourself ever wearing anything so fancy well you probably did yo girl looking like snowman miss Andrews where's M&K plan with apricot velvet and it's just peachy [Applause] dalton's Mother's Day mrs. G Henry Stetson has support of gallery at Marion pennsylvania Golf Links October 2nd 1926 as she tees off in finals of women's national golf tourney her opponent is mrs. W D Goss and on 35th green to golfing mothers bring match to a close three up and one to go winner is mrs. Stetson shown here with her two daughters bringing up children doesn't deter mother Stetson from bringing home the bacon too it's 1927 Chicago Elgin race time and they're off in battle of bike riders in test against time and slippery roads its annual pump of pedal pushers from Elgin Illinois to Chicago and believe me the pace is fast and not all starters finish either see what I mean motorcycle faces leaders on soaking wet concrete and first to cross the finish line of 38 mile - here comes the winner and the crowd loves winners so Charles Barrett gives Champion Jimmy Morton a Loving Cup [Music] [Applause]