Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MARCH 24]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [MARCH 24]

1941

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Part 1, Greeks parade in N.Y.C. on Greece's Independence Day. Part 2, German propaganda is burned by Post Office personnel in San Francisco. Part 3, actor James Stewart enlists in the Army. Part 4, Wash.'s Gov. Langlie pulls a switch to put Grand Coulee Dam into operation. Shows the generators and Grand Coulee lake. Part 5, members of the American Theater Wing wrap packages for British war relief. Part 6 shows Gen. Pershing, Veronica Lake, and fighter planes at Randolph Field, Texas. Part 7, a PB2Y Navy seaplane is tested over San Diego, California. Part 8 shows antebellum homes in Natchez, Mississippi and people dressed in period costumes. Part 9, a Brazilian and U.S. soccer team competes in Randalls Island, N.Y. Basketball:--Long Island University vs. Seton Hall in the NIT.

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Stewart, James, 1908-1997

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James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an American actor and military officer. Known for his distinctive drawl and everyman screen persona, Stewart had a film career that spanned over 55 years and 80 films. With the strong morality he portrayed both on and off the screen, Stewart epitomized the "American ideal" in twentieth-century United States. In 1999, the American Film Institute (AFI) ranked him third on its list of the greatest American male actors. Born and raised i...

Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948

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Career Army officer who served in the Philippines as an adjutant general and engineer officer, collector of customs, and cavalry squadron commander, participating in actions against the Tausug (Moros), 1899-1903; later apppointed governor of Moro Province and commander, Department of Mindanao, 1909-1913. Well-known for his command of the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I, 1917-1919. From the description of General John J. Pershing photograph collection [pictu...

Langlie, Arthur B. (Arthur Bernard), 1900-1966

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Lawyer, Republican politician, and business executive of Seattle who served one term as mayor of Seattle and three as governor of Washington. Arthur Langlie served as mayor of Seattle from 1938 to 1940, and led the effort to rehabilitate Seattle after the Great Depression. He was the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1940, and won, thanks largely to a deeply divided Democratic party. During his time as governor, he was involved in the proposed Columbia Valley Administr...