YESTERDAY'S NEWSREEL - PRESIDENT WARREN HARDING CHARLES PONZI

[Music] television highlights are the news of yesteryear [Music] here's Warren Harding in fair weather days of 1920 posing with his ambitious wife Harding the Marion Ohio newspaper publisher is a quiet thoughtful senator but mrs. Harding and the Senators friends have plans with Republican convention deadlocked in Chicago party leaders gather in famed smoke-filled room of Windy City's Blackstone hotel and pick a compromise candidate to run for president choice his handsome Warren Gamaliel Harding will Hayes is signaled out to spark the campaign to send Warren Harding to the White House and sound the knell of political obscurity for James Cox and Franklin Delano Roosevelt backed by famed Republican Uncle Joe Cannon and White House's parent governor Loudon of Ohio and polling 16 out of 26 million votes parting leaves Marion and says so long to friends of a lifetime he will never see again it's on to Capitol Hill and the White House for Harding in March of 1921 Woodrow Wilson goes back to private life in his house on s Street and the nation goes back to normalcy Harding Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes tops the new president's cabinet which includes soon-to-be President Hoover and campaign director will Hayes now Postmaster General their Secretary of Agriculture Wallace famed father of Henry and here's Secretary's den bein weeks attend first meeting as cabinet gathers for initial session Harding poses next to man who'll himself be president in just two short years as 28 chief executive Harding attends Calvary Baptist Church with his wife now happily and contentedly first lady of the land her husband though working hard a job misses the freedom he once enjoyed but he carries burden of his responsibilities well and the Warren Harding is unhappy in the White House nation is happy to have him and cheer him there a popular president he opens White House doors to all who wish to visit the Salvation Army calls and on Executive Mansion lawn harding plays with laddie boy early version of Roosevelt's famous follow on official business in regard to America's peacetime army President Harding seized General Pershing and Armed Forces bigwigs at the War College and then in 1923 he takes well-earned vacation in Alaska but on return to California he's ill and tired these are Warren Harding's last pictures for he walks toward door of death his wife reads to him in his palace hotel room in San Francisco that's good he said read more then with a doctor and nurses in attendance he dies arting comes back to Washington as nation weeps passing of its beloved president and from the White House Warren Harding goes home to Marion home to peace home to eternal rest [Music] there's plenty of paperwork involved in preparation for the famous bull ass ball of February 16 1922 and there are plenty of celebrities too here are mrs. Enrico Caruso and socialite mrs. Oliver Harriman 4cb falls and misses Elihu root Junior work for the day is ending and the night of the ball must come with everything as glorious and glamorous as the galaxy of guests mr. Falls gets much-needed help from his charming wife and what it's all over workers of paint and paper wonders gather on for much-needed refreshment and rest it was great fun here in 1919 as Charles Ponzi self-styled financial wizard loafing at his Boston mansion with his lovely wife and proud and adoring mother Fonzie's proved his boast he can make 50% profit on investments in 90 days and wise men follow him the show he doesn't do it with mirrors funds he opened shop on Boston stage with Billy B van as office boy and among his celebrated clients is none other than gentleman Jim Corbett Ponzi puts over his usual big deal but the audience that watches spellbound here is later dumbfounded when government proves ponzi is swindler is Tomas Masaryk not long before his resignation as president of Czechoslovakia in 1935 and with him as Edward Bennish who step into vacated office same year Thomas Missouri for 15 years Czechoslovakia is first and most famous chief executive champion of democracy at his home in Boston here's mayor of Beantown James M Curley here in 1929 he shows he's not just a politician but a family man resigning from House of Representatives in Washington in 1914 to take mayor's desk Curley was national and international figure in 20s 30s and 40s a second of March 1922 and saving for home with his wife is famed British orchestra conductor Albert Coates he has just competed two seasons as director of New York Symphony Orchestra and is going home to rest [Music] [Applause] it's 1921 and torrential rains in the dark of the Texas night caused piling up of waters and brought high waters and havoc roaring into the city streets of San Antonio food is rushed to survivors of flash disaster which left hundreds homeless and even early count of casualties listed 50 dead property damage is tremendous and to prevent looting soldiers stride into stricken area to help local law enforcement officers keep order as evidence of floods force this 1921 automobile was swept from road into River [Music] Pennsylvania polka vintage 1926 it's an all-male cast and chorus but some of the boys are beautiful as they rehearse for a sale in sailor 1926 edition of the University of Pennsylvania's annual mask and wig production out of such a performance as this came Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians and other big names in show business but don't look for wearing here in real life this heroine is a campus hero mostly for taking a role captain fear of the football team is properly suited for the show and here are the principles dancing in the 1926 mask and wig musical noir masks well anyway those are ways is it a bird is it a plane well not exactly it's inventor of Victor lower Weber's contribution to a long list of contraptions positively guaranteed to fuss fidget and fly one third plane one third helicopter and one third combination egg beater and concrete mixer nor Weber's Lulu gets all wound up damned inventor and his helpers run the shelter from flying parts plus it does fidget it does but fly soozee by the sea courtesy of stylists that bought would tell her in 1920 this bathing beauty models the year's latest beach going bought imagine swimming and having to wrassle was a tassel to up this bathing cap is better by one castle but let's have a look at what she's wearing get ready for a shock well this much can be said for it maybe it won't attract men but it'll frighten sharks and many a shy fish must have dashed for the safety of deeper water look at this tree oh no there's nothing wrong with your television set just your memory well maybe you remember the cop test on the Atlantic City Beach in 1920 these are days when it's a crime to show your knees cops say kneecaps must be completely covered living dangerously and floating the law these bear need beauties of 1920 just love to play leapfrog outside the law oh you wicked things Wars end games beginning its 1919 and in Pershing Stadium Paris France athletes of Allied armies fresh from final victories in first world war compete against each other in more peaceful ways French troops in white shirts are pitted against team of Americans in hard-fought basketball game did you notice old fashion Center jump well that was basketball in 1919 [Music] [Applause] on this side of Atlantic in 1919 American eyes turned to peacetime ventures as crews from Washington California and Stanford vie for winners Cup in West Coast triangular meet near finish of three mile race it looks like a close contest and it is but not close enough for the losers winning crew is Washington eight during the distance in 16 minutes and 44 seconds and they still have enough strength to row home [Music]