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Universal Newsreels: 1940, January 3
F.D.R. Asks Congress For Big Arms Budget.
President Roosevelt In his annual New Year message to Congress calls for increased expenditures for the Army and Navy due to the war abroad, to be met, he says, by increased taxes.
Charles Edison New Secretary of the Navy.
Washington DC. Charles Edison, acting naval head since the death of Secretary Swanson, is sworn in as high Navy officials look on. He takes the reins of U.S. naval forces at a time of record expansion.
Vice President Garner, who has “thrown his hat in the ring,” calls on the President at the White House with other party leaders.
19 Dead, 40 Hurt In Minneapolis Hotel Fire.
Zero weather and a night blaze take a terrific toll in lives as an apartment hotel is gutted by flames. Tragic scenes as firemen, hampered by frozen lines, comb the ruins for bodies of victims in Minneapolis, Minn.
Model Seaplanes Soar In Meet.
Thrills for model plane fans in Miami, Florida. A miniature seaplane meet on Biscayne Bay, with the amazing replicas taking off and landing on the water in realistic style. Crack-ups, too, just like big planes.
Georgia Tech Wins Over Missouri In Orange Bowl
Scenes of a spectacular “Orange Bowl” festival parade Miami, Florida.
January 2, 1940; The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets displays amazing power in trouncing the Missouri Tigers 21-7 behind the heroics of Johnny Bosch who outran and out-passed theTigers’ All-American “Passing” Paul Christman.
Texas A. & M. Wins Over Tulane In Sugar Bowl
A record crowd of 73,000 football fans in New Orleans, LA. sees the Texas “Aggies” topple the touted Tulane “Green Wave” in the South’s New Year classic Sugar Bowl, coming from behind to win by a one-point margin, 14-13!
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