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keywords: Dust Storm, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woolworth Heiress Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani, Pilot Laura Ingalls, Swimsuit Beauty Pageant

Synopsis: Heavy dust storms blanket the Mid-West, Woolworth heiress Princess Barbara Hutton Mdvani, Pilot Laura Ingalls challenges the Women's Transcontinental record, Bathing suit beauty pageant and the latest in Women's hairstyles...(read more)

  • Date: 1960
  • Duration: 00:02:21
  • Sound: Yes
  • Color: Monochrome
  • Type: Public Domain
  • Language: English
  • Location: United States

Twenty-Five Years Ago 1935

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Twenty-Five Years Ago 1935

Dust storms darken the skies of America from the mid-West to the Rockies. The grim era of the Dust Bowl and the Oakie is at hand. Automobiles with lights on drive in the cities. Shows a TWA Tri-Motor passenger airliner grounded at an airport.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves a proposed new constitution for the Philippine Islands granting Home Rule and granted a guarantee of future independence.

Names in the news 25 years ago included the Woolworth heiress Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani as she departs a passenger airline plane in Reno, Nevada to divorce her Polo playing prince. CU image of Barbara Woolworth Hutton dubbed the Poor Little Rich Girl.

Aviatrix Laura Ingalls boards airplane Lockheed model 9 Orion to challenge the women's transcontinental flying record from the California to New York City.

Swimsuit Beauty Queen Pageant, City of Miami, Florida chose its bathing suit Beauty Queen.

Women's hair styles in Hollywood, streamline coiffures made the style news.