Vincent R. Impellitteri

WNYC's Tommy Cowan gives us the blow-by-blow coverage from City Hall.

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Tommy Cowan describes (in great detail)the arrival General MacArthur, his wife and son at Idlewild airport. Mayor Impelliterri and General MacArthur give short speeches.

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Celebration and ceremony for the opening of St. Mary's Recreation Center in the Bronx. Bobby White sings the National Anthem.

A regular air link to Puerto Rico is established!

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Hearings on the construction of the Saint Lawrence Seaway. It includes testimony contradicting many of the given reasons for the construction of the seaway including as a method for shipping iron ...

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Unnamed speaker (Whelan?) introduces Impellitteri, who addresses the volunteers and introduces Secretary Marshall.

Marshall reads the oath for the volunteers, who repeat it.

Labeled as "Plan for Survival" in the ...

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Seymour Siegel welcomes the audience to the opening day of the American Music Festival at Town Hall. He notes that WNYC stresses the importance of fine music to the radio listener. ...

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Unnamed female speaker: Launching the first of what we hope will be several drives to recruit volunteers for nurses and nurses aides for the medical emergency division.

Grover Whalen: Man power ...

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Party for over 200 of New York's underprivileged children, brought to City Hall by buses for "Christmas merry-making" from 5 area hospitals, one from each borough. Each received a boxed lunch, ...

Vincent Impellitteri, James Lyons, Thomas E. Dewey, and Robert Moses open the Bronx River Parkway, the first of three major New York City expressways opening that day throughout New York. Moses stresses the increased difficulties in building such expressways, while Governor Dewey notes the importance of the new expressways for ...

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Manetti begins the evening by discussing scholarships and reading telegrams (from Truman, Dewey, the US ambassador to Italy). Foley gives Pope a Distinguished Service Certificate in honor of his late father, ...

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Reception for the American Bankers Association, marks the 75th Anniversary of the association and on the occasion of their annual national conference. Mayor Impellitteri welcomes ABA members to New York with ...

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Celebration of Interfaith ceremony.

Dr. Channing H Tobias reads from scripture.

Gloria Swanson speaks about the sacrifices made by our forefathers. Speaks of how sometimes ...

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Commissioner of Hospitals Kogal (?) introduces Reverend James A. Pike, who delivers the invocation, then delivers a speech about the severity of cancer. W.E.S. Griswold, Sr., Vice President of the Board ...

The first motion picture made in its entirety within the City of New York

25th anniversary of the International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

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Grover Whalen presides. Roger W Strauss, Robert Montgomery, Patrice Munsel, and Mayor Impelliterri address the crowd (mostly school children) about the importance of brotherhood. Police Department perform "I am an American ...

WNYC gives the newsreel format a heroic try.

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Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri addresses the 30th anniversary of signing of the armistice at the lighting of the Eternal Light in Madison Square. Impellitteri says that Armistice Day, VE Day and ...