Col. Knox Gives Platform (Universal Newsreel, Jan 1936)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. COL. KNOX GIVES PLATFORM: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Chicago publisher takes issue with statements made by the President in his address to Congress and presents his own national program which, he insists, is identical with the Democratic platform of 1932. 2. INVESTIGATORS HEAR MORGAN: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Senate Munitions Investigating Committee requests testimony from J.P. Morgan on the part international bankers played just before the United States declared war on Germany in 1917. 3. LEADERS DISCUSS A.A.A. DEATH: WASHINGTON, D.C. - National figures, including Senators Bankhead and Capper, Rep. Hamilton Fish and Father Coughlin, give their outspoken views on the action of the Supreme Court in declaring Agricultural Adjustment unconstitutional. 4. NEEDS SEVEN-LEAGUE BOOTS: CHICAGO, IL - Eight-foot Robert Wadlow gladdens the hearts of delegates to a National Shoe Fair by sporting a pair of size 39 brogans. Pretty girl models look like pygmies beside the youthful giant. 5. STORMS BATTER WEST COAST: NELSCOTT, OR - Gigantic waves are smashed against the rocky seashore by a terrific gale which hurls small boats up on dry land and sends flood waters over farms and into the lower floors of homesteads. 6. LINDBERGHS REACH NEW HOME: LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - The Flying Colonel, his wife and infant son go ashore from the S.S. American Importer in which they unexpectedly fled the United States following the receipt of letters threatening another kidnapping. 7. G-MAN DEMANDS KIDNAP AID: WASHINGTON, D.C. - J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Government’s crime-fighting forces, pleads with relatives of abducted persons to place evidence in his hands immediately, pointing out that the police are otherwise helpless to act. 8. SKIDS MARK MOTOR CONTEST: LOS ANGELES, CA - Skilled drivers take their lives in their hands as they slide around the treacherous Legion Ascot motor speedway in a dash against time. Many of them come to grief in collisions and on the turns. (LOCAL – PHILADELPHIA) U.S. DESTROYS $50,000 STILL.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library