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Film portrait of US Senator Robert A. Taft compiled in US at his death
Title card: "Robert A Taft, 1889 - 1953" / CU Taft / Taft working at his desk / CU Taft posing for photo opportunity / Taft sitting with wife Martha and their two sons in front of house / Taft sitting at desk with his secretary / Taft...
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CLEAN : Colombia closes polls and starts vote counting for presidential election
Colombia closes the polls to elect the next president for the coming four years, who for the first time in the country's history could be a leftist, as Senator Gustavo Petro (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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VOICED : Colombia elegirá presidente entre el izquierdista Petro y Hernández, un outsider millonario
AMPLIACIÓN: El senador y exguerrillero Gustavo Petro, vencedor en la primera vuelta del domingo, disputará en un balotaje la presidencia de Colombia con Rodolfo Hernández, un outsider millonario que sacó sorpresivamente a la derecha de...
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VOICED : Izquierdista Petro disputará con el 'outsider' Hernández balotaje presidencial en Colombia
El exguerrillero y senador Gustavo Petro ganó la primera vuelta presidencial en Colombia con más del 40% de los votos, pero deberá disputar un balotaje con el 'outsider' millonario Rodolfo Hernández (28%), según un conteo preliminar...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Republican Clifford Phillip Case has a narrow win over Democratic Charles (Robert) Howell in the New Jersey Senate race, 1954
PAN view from Manhattan skyline to Jersey shore // Newark, New Jersey - Intertitle "New Jersey" superimposed over Jersey shore / Back view of man picking up newspaper at newspaper stand, man selling papers in background / CU newspaper...
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Friar's Club testimonial dinner at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City honors comedian Bob Hope
Title: "New York: Hope's Charity Winds Acclaim at Friars Fete" superimposed over Bob Hope holding citation plaque / low angle Pan down Waldorf Astoria exterior at night / high angle people mingling near small tables / high angle Hope,...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Presidential candidates Adlai Stevenson and Dwight Eisenhower campaigning in US
Title card: "Ike-Stevenson - Busy is the word for candidates" / Governor Adlai Stevenson riding in back seat of open car as it drives down street in parade in Springfield, IL / sign over entrance to building reading "Illinois State Fair"...
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Winston Churchill arrives in the United States
Title superimposed on Winston Churchill climbing stairs: "Camera Report... Churchill's Days in the US" / VS closeups of Churchill with Bernard Baruch (hearing aid), and President-Elect Dwight Eisenhower; the three men pose / Secretary of...
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Senator Estes Kefauver from Tennessee announces his candidacy for the US presidency
Title: "People You're Talking About" superimposed over Newspapers off the press / Title Card: "Estes Kefauver - He's A Candidate Again" superimposed over CU Sen. Estes Kefauver, D-TN, waving coonskin cap / CU Kefauver waving coonskin cap...
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Richard Nixon says "We've just begun to fight," addressing attacks on an alleged secret campaign fund
Title: "Nixon Vindicated, Says Eisenhower - Dramatic Hours On Political Scene" superimposed over G.O.P. elephant figure / Warner Pathe News / News of the day - Los Angeles, California: Night shot: Follow Richard Nixon, Republican Vice...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Dwight Eisenhower and Estes Kefauver win New Hampshire primaries
Title card superimposed on putting a ballot in a ballot box, "New Hampshire says, "I Like Ike! -- and Kefauver" / (Pembroke, NH) "Official Ballot" / Ballots are handed out; men place the ballots in the box / A man walks through snow to a...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Newbold Morris appears before a Senate Special Committee on government graft
Title superimposed on a Senate Subcommittee, "Washington Debate, Newbold Morris vs Senate Probers"; "Angry Blasts at Surplus Ships Inquiry" / Morris surrounded with gaggle of photographers, then sits alone / Sens. Joseph McCarthy, Karl...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson confers with Sens. Kefauver and Sparkman and Pres. Truman on campaign strategy
Title: "Campaign Strategy - Stevenson Goes To Washington" superimposed over carved Democratic donkey / Springfield, IL: EXT IL Governor's Mansion / photographers snapping meeting of IL Gov. Adlai Stevenson, Democratic presidential...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Senator Joseph McCarthy weds Jean Kerr at Saint Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, DC
Title: "Senator McCarthy Takes a Bride" superimposed over wedding couple / Pan down EXT St. Matthew's Cathedral to crowd out front / MS smiling Sen. Joseph McCarthy gets out of car / McCarthy walks up cathedral's steps / high angle older...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
During Korean War, Secretary of State Dean Acheson testifies before US Senate joint committees in Washington, DC
Title "People you're reading about" superimposed over newspapers coming off press / title "Sec'y Acheson testifies on US policy toward China" superimposed over US Secretary of State Dean Acheson getting out of car / Acheson walking down...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Session of Army-McCarthy Hearings before US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in Washington, DC
US Senator Joseph McCarthy followed by his wife Jean and others walking towards hearing room / Joseph Welch, US Army Counsel for Hearings, walking towards hearing room / VS people walking towards hearing room and entering / pan across...
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People doing various jobs related to Army-McCarthy Hearings before US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in Washington, DC
Man typing on stenotype machine during hearings / close shot of man's hands typing / CU man's hands typing and paper coming out of machine / another man typing on stenotype machine / woman at typewriter transcribing stenotype notes /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
US Senator Joseph McCarthy testifying in Army-McCarthy Hearings held by Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in Washington, DC
Sen. Joseph McCarthy testifying / Chief Counsel for Subcommittee Ray Jenkins speaking, he slides photo across table to US Army soldier G. David Schine, SOT asking Schine if has ever seen it before, SOT Schine answers that he has seen...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
US Senator Joseph McCarthy testifies in Army-McCarthy Hearings before Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations in Washington, DC
Two shots of Sen. Joseph McCarthy sitting at table testifying, SOT talking about testimony of US Army soldier G. David Schine / McCarthy testifying, pan across to senators on subcommittee sitting at table standing up to take recess /...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Retired Gen. Albert Wedemeyer assumes chairmanship of a citizens committee backing Ohio Sen. Taft's presidential candidacy
Title Card: "Washington - Citizens For Taft Committee" / WS Lt. Gen. Albert Wedemeyer (Retired), wartime Commander in China, on rostrum, with Sen. Robert A Taft, R-OH and Republican candidate for presidential nomination, seated beside...
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Resolutions Committee holds meeting to draft platform for the 1944 Republican National Convention
WS Meeting of Resolutions Committee (at Stevens Hotel in Chicago) to draft platform for the 1944 Republican National Convention / MS Senator Robert Taft from Ohio standing at table / CU Angle Taft standing / MS people at meeting / CU...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Funeral for Alben W. Barkley in Washington
Title card: "Rites for Barkley in Washington" / The exterior of Foundry Methodist Church in Washington with a pan down to traffic and a large crowd / The interior bier and coffin / Numerous senators including Andrew Schoeppel, Henry...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Gov. Charles Sprague leads citizenship ceremony at Oregon capitol; shows emblem and sculpture
People entering door with word Governor over entrance / CU Gov. Charles Sprague shaking hands with woman smiling, man behind her looking on / Sprague shaking hands with man, others behind / pan interior capitol building, crowd on floor...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Fear of Russia's nuclear capabilities
SOT Senator Brien McMahon speaking on Russia / street scenes in Paris / crowded sidewalk cafe / man reads newspaper headline on Russia and atomic bomb / CU Franc-Tireur newspaper / WS and CU of University of Chicago scientists, Louis...