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On page REEL 1259. LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS (FOX MOVITONE NEWS Soundtracks) 20260912_120726 · written “1259”

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• (30) LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS 1938 The Year of Its-Era-ctments - America's 160th Birthday Strikes all over Europe; Attempted assassination on Mussolini; Pochanin's wife; Oil wells; Speculators; Jazz; Home in Florida; Air Mail; Amerson tries to fly dirigible to North Pole; Admiral Byrd beats him with plane; Jack Dempsey & Gene Tunney; European royalty (Queen Marie of Romania) visits U.S.; Baseball; Gertrude Ederle swims English channel; The WOMEN: Lady wrestlers, Lady Police, sweeping, dishwashing & Rolling pin contests; Lady exercises, Make-up & beauty; Valentino dies (1938) aired 1938
  1/8/76
• (30) LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS 1927 Prohibition & Mexican border; Caribbean run runners; Sacco-Vanzetti trial & Aug. 23rd electrocution; Panama Canal; Nicaragua civil war; Opening radiophone service New York to London; China civil war; Changkhek; Austrian riots (fascists Vs Democrats); Radio beginning to flourish; Berlin- goosetapping troops; Mussolini; Paris arts & fashions; Bull market; Cha. Lindbergh leaves May 20 on non-stop transatlantic flight to Paris in the "Spirit of St. Louis" to win $25,000 -- established 6 years before; This take-off film also historic as the first synchronized sound film-- can hear his motor as he takes off; 33 1/2 hours later in Paris (Lindbergh was the 7th to fly the Atlantic, but the first to do it alone); Coolidge bestows the distinguished flying cross on Lindbergh; Lindbergh's speech & ticket-take parade (1927) aired 1927
  1/15/76
• (30) LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS 1928 Lindbergh still the news & he tours the states; Aviation prospers; Dirigibles; Amelia Earhart flies the Atlantic; Pres. Coolidge chooses not to run; Republicans nominate Herbert Hoover; Dems nominate Al Smith; The first all- sound Movietone newsreel - Hoover & Smith campaign speeches; English politics; Mussolini; Mexican pres. assassinated; The 9th Olympiad; Indianapolis 500; Santa Fe, Calif. oil fire; Boulder Dam; Jazz; Sledding on ice blocks & dancing on roller skates; Beauty contestants checked by Chiropractors for straight backs; Fashions; Prosperity (1928) aired 1928
  1/22/76
• (30) LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS 1929 The stock market crash & subsequent depression begins; Strikes; Pres. Herbert Hoover's programs; French Premier, George Clemenceau- dies; Graf Zeppelin in flight "round the world; 1st transcontinental airplane christened by Lindbergh's wife & Mary Pickford; 1st marriage in flight; Prohibition repeal movements start; Somber fashions reflect the times; Woman suffrage (1929) aired 1929
  1/29/76
• (30) LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS 1930 George Bernard Shaw; Movies are depressionproof; Hoarding & saving lambasted in newsreels & movies; Boys fashions; John D. Rockefeller demonstration at Capitol; Hoover supports tariffs - no direct relief; Unemployed shows dance in streets, N.Y. Gov. F.D. Roosevelt; 89 Americans now have radios; Noroni demonstrating radio fails; Radio sound effects; Dirigible (British 10) crashes on hill killing 48 of 55 passengers; Mussolini; German ideology; Russian purge - 1.; John D. Rockefeller flies at age 90; Aimee S. MacPherson with lion; Sinclair Lewis wins Nobel literature prize; Sophie Tucker must get fat; Geo. B. Shaw
  2/5/76
• (30) LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS 1931 The Great Depression; Mary will marry for $10,000 -- & gets thousands of offers; Hoover at Valley Forge; Roosevelt lays plans for Presidency; Thomas A. Edison in his laboratory & telling stories; Edison dies in Oct.; Graf Zeppelin (with movies aboard as it flies over Swiss Alps); 12 Engine flying boat flight; Mahatma Gandhi & Mohandas Gatty fly around world in 8 days; Spanish King Alphonso resigns; Mahatma Gandhi; Hitler building a following; Japan invades Manchuria; Hirohito reviews troops; Mt. Rushmore in So. Dakota Jack Diamonds girlfriend talks on his murder; Lowell Thomas begins radio career (1931) aired 1931
  2/12/76
• (30) LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS 1932 For inaugurated & Hitler becomes Germany's Chancellor; Japan invades China; China Wall fighting; Japan walks out of League of Nations; Miami assassination attempt on FDR; Inauguration & FDR declares the "Great Bank Holiday"; Bartering begins; Many 'New Deal' agencies started; NRA; CCC; Govt. gold market; Delegates Govt. responsibility for the individual; Amos n' Andy open the Chicago World's Fair; "Century of Progress"; Mussolini's black shirts march in Italy; Hitler comes into power, the Reichstag burns down; Scuttle incorporated as Germany's National flag; Germany withdraws from League of Nations & Talks (1932) aired 1932
  2/19/76
• (30) LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS 1934 Prohibition repealed; Dione Quintuples born May 28; The Drought (Mississippi first); A Negro calls FDR & gets mortgage money; Strikes; FDR fights for 'New Deal'; CCC builds highways (Death Valley, etc.); TVA builds Dams; Gangsters & Prisons; John Dillinger 3 months before killed; LaGuardia smashes slot machines; Lindbergh's kidnapper caught; Lowell Thomas joins Movietone News; King Alexander of Yugoslavia & Prime Minister Berto of France assassinated right on Movietone news & the assassin slashed to death with sabers on the spot - also caught on film; Dolphus of Serbia killed by Nazis; Hitler massing forces; Paul von Hindenburg dies giving Hitler free reign; Spain problems; Mass murders in Russia (1934) aired 1934
  2/26/76
• (30) LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS 1935 F.D.R. Praises Govt.; Movietone News now has 1,000 Cameramen; FDR's New Deal starts us into a Welfare State; Social Security bill signed; WPA gives everybody a job that wants one; NRA (National Recovery Act) declared illegal; Sir Malcolm Campbell drives Bluebird 304 mph on Utah salt flats; Rocket tried out; U.P. Streamliner coast to coast in 55 hours; Paraguay/Bolivia war; Japan still at War; Hitler's pantry; The Saar returns to Germany by vote; Hitler breaks treaty of Versailles & arms; Huey Long assassinated; Drugs, liquor & obscene book raids; Bruno Hauptman found guilty of kidnapping Lindbergh's baby & sentenced to death; Will Rogers & Wiley Post killed in plane crash; Laurence of Arabia killed; Dizzy Dean; Shirley Temple - star; Marconi (father of radio) gives statement; Mussolini invades Ethiopia; FDR stops trade with Berigentes (Italy) (1935) aired 1935
  3/4/76
• (30) LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS 1936 Stalin executes another 16 people; Hitler marches into Rhineland; Movietone News aboard blimp "Hindenburg"; Mussolini/Hitler pact to stop Communism; MacArthur speech; 1936 Olympics in Berlin; Small farmers fight both the drought & machines (tractors); Fashions- knits; Huey Long's widow seated in Senate; The 'Kingfish' dies; For unanimously nominated for Democrats - Alf Landon for Republicans; FDR speech "I Hate War"; Franco & Spanish civil war; RCA demonstrates TV & Britain makes a TV broadcast; Landslide vote for FDR, all but 2 States; King George V. dies; Edward VIII inaugurated; Dec. 11 King Edward VIII abdicates for "woman I love (1936) aired 1936
  3/13/76
• (30) LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS 1937 The "Hindenburg" dirigible explodes by time-bomb & Movietone News films; (bad weather delayed landing); New dance- College Shag; Inaugural run of streamliner at 110 mph with Avril Harriman; N.Y. auto show of the 1938's Strikes wipe out gains of the 'New Deal'; Spanish refugees; FDR speech on war; Shanghai & Nanking fall to Japanese; Amelia Earhart takes off in her Electra; Mary Pickford/Buddy Rogers marriage; Shirley Temple & new L.A. streetcar; John D. Rockefeller & Marconi die; Geo. VI. coronated; Baseball by celebrities (1937) aired 1937
  3/20/76
• (30) LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS 1938 Hitler in Rome with Mussolini; FDR speech on Democracy; Appeasement in Britain & France; Isolationism in U.S.; Spanish war; Farm aid increased fair labor laws; Minimum wage 40c; Mexico seizes oil companies; Wrong-way Corrigan flies; Sweepstakes; Howard Hughes flies around the world; Elinor Roosevelt; Police foil robbery with radio cars; Hitler at Neurenberg; Neville Chamberlain "Peace in our time"; The Maginot Line; Lindbergh in Berlin; German intolerance; Jews fighting Palestinians; China Tosing war; FDR prays for peace (1938) aired 1938
  3/25/76
• (30) LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS (FOX MOVITONE NEWS Soundtracks)
• (30) LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS 1939 Spanish refugee's stream into France; German liner with Jewish refugees refused in Cuba - accepted at Antwerp; FDR speech on war; Spanish civil war ends in March; Hitler triumphs over Czechoslovakia; The 'Siegfried Line' facing the 'Maginot Line'; Fashions reflect war; Italy seizes Albania; Congress votes not to fortify Guam; King Geo. VI & Elizabeth visit USA; Marion Anderson sings at Lincoln Memorial; Lou Gehrig retires; Japan/Britain in far East; Roosevelt signs neutrality Act allowing sale of war materials; Japan joins Axis pact; Germany invades Poland on Sept. 1st; War scenes; Soviets rush in Poland to divide with Germany; Hitler/Stalin non-aggression pact; Churchill speeches; U-boats sink German ships; English catch German ship 'Graf Spee' and it is scuttled; Russia invades Finland (1939) aired 1939
  3/9/76
• (30) LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS 1940 The year of the first Social Security checks; Russia invading, but stiff resistance in Finland; The Maginot Line; Germany invades Denmark and Copenhagen surrenders with no fighting; Norway resists - battles shown - surrenders; Germany invades Belgium- 5 million refugees; Dunkirk forces Chamberlain out & Churchill becomes Prime Minister of England; France attacked & conquered; The Battle of Britain begins- Air force decimated, then Hitler mistakenly attacks cities & airforce rebuilds; London bombed - Coventry destroyed, etc.; Lindbergh speech to keep America out of the war; FDR leading us slowly into war with lead-lease etc. while promising to keep U.S. troops out of Europe; Trotsky murdered; Cha. Boyer/Merle Oberon film for aliens to register; Depression & New Deal still with us; Republicans nominate Wendell Willkie; Dems- FDR for unprecedented 3rd term with Henry Wallace as VP; John L. Lewis vows he'll resign as labor leader if FDR is re-elected; FDR wins 54% of vote & Lewis resigns (1940) aired 1940
  3/18/76
• (30) LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS 1941 The Year of the War" - FDR speech - lend lease approved by Congress; U.S. seizes 69 German & Italian ships in our harbors; British winning battles with Italians in Libya; Greenland & Iceland get US troops for protection; British troops take Spitzbergen & burn coal fields; June 23rd Hitler invades Russia; War in the Baltic; Japan invades Indo-China; Tojo comes into power in Japan; Japanese ambassador Kurusu arrives with ultimatum for USA; Dec. 7th sneak attack on Pearl Harbor (3 Battleships sunk, 4 more damaged & 359 planes destroyed); FDR speech in Congress declaring War on Japan; Hitler declares War on the U.S. (1941) aired 1941
  3/23/76
• (30) LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS 1942 The Year of the War" - FDR speech: "This is War" - Bazan falls - Calif. oil refinery shelled by Japanese submarine; War films; Troop ship Normandie burns in N.Y. harbor; Phillipeans fall to Japanese; Japanese finally stopped at Guadalcanal & our big victories at Midway & the Coral Sea; War films; Gen. Douglas MacArthur; War in South Africa; Churchill in USA; Nazi agents caught on our East coast; rationing; Scrap metal drives; FDR visits Ford war plants; Film in plane on Dieppe commando raid; FDR & Churchill returns from Russia; Stalingrad battle films (1942) aired 1942
  3/25/76
• (30) LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS 1943 FDR's "State of the Union" address; Jan. 27th, our B-17's begin night bombing of Germany; Russians burn Caucus oil fields as Germans advance; More Stalingrad battle scenes - then the Germans surrender entire 6th Army including 24 Generals; Landings in Italy; Churchill addresses U.S. congress; films of the Doolittle air-raid on Tokyo; Aircraft carrier Hornet sunk; U.S. forces begin island hopping battles; Tarawa disaster; Cairo & Teheran meetings (1943) aired 1943
  3/30/76
• (30) LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS 1944 We are winning the War; Vesuvius erupts while Navy commando films; Fantastic battle scenes from Navy & Signal Corps of Naval battles with both sides of France via captured films, e.g. Sinking of the Sharnhorst; June 6th invasion of Europe "D-Day"; Bradley, Eisenhower & Montgomery (storm sunk 300 ships); Patton used; French shear female collaborators; DeGaulle enters Paris- snipers almost get him; July 20th assassination attempt on Hitler; FDR elected to 4th term defeating Tom Dewey by a very small margin; FDR signs the G.I. Bill of Rights (1944) aired 1944
  4/1/76
• (30) LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS 1945 The battle of the Bulge- Bastogne; Yalta, Russia conf. with FDR/Stalin/Churchill; Franklyn Delano Roosevelt dies 2 months later; Mussolini killed; Remagen bridge across the Rhine is captured intact; Berlin bombing shown; Hitler suicide; Germany surrenders on May 7th; Potsdam conference (in mid-conference Churchill is ousted in Britain as Prime Minister); MacArthur on Luzon; The battle for Manila; Bombing raid on Japan; Films of Kamikazi's attacking our ships; Aug. 6th Atom bombing of Hiroshima; Truman ultimatum to Japan; Nagasaki A-bombing shown; Two days later Japan surrenders; MacArthur/Shimanetsu signing surrender document on battleship; Films record A-bomb destruction; War criminal trials in Norway (Quislings) and in Paris (Pierre LaValle) sentenced to death (1945) aired 1945
  4/6/76
• (30) LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS 1946 The Neurenburg war trials sentence 23 Nazis - Goering, Ribbentrop & Keitel sentenced to death - Goering takes poison; Varying sentences for Hess, Jodel, Kaltenbrunner, Funk, Rosenberg, Franz. Doenitz, Rader J. Schacht; Palestine violence because Britain imposes immigration quotas; Yugoslavia shoots down two American transport planes; Violence in Trieste; India's House of Commons collapses; Perone comes to power in Argentina; Truman's early morning walk; Truman fires VP Wallace; Operation crossroads tests Atomic bomb effects on Bikini Island (the big 4 meet in Paris & Berlin blockade is lifted; Austria borders returned to pre-1939 boundaries; Churchill lauds the Atomic bomb; Palestinians resist Israel; Israel's first ballot - David BenGurion; The Pyramid clubs; VP Bering sings in Quartet; TV is sweeping the country; Alger Hiss on trial; Judith Copeland convicted of espionage (1946) aired 1946
  4/20/76
• (30) LOWELL THOMAS REMEMBERS 1950 The big Brink's robbery; Miss convicted; India's Independence; McCarthy era begins; Truman; Russian troops in Manchuria and North Korea- battle scenes; U.N. votes 9-0 to support South Korea; Soviet ends U.N. boycott; More Korean war scenes- MacArthur Inchon landing; Reds pushed back across the 38th Parallel; Communist atrocities in Korea; Truman/MacArthur meeting; Truman's walks at Blair House; Attempted assassination of Truman foiled by alert secret service men (1950) aired 1950
  4/22/76