https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/a9448fef-b104-4cd6-8eca-81d418218991 Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This black and white early-1950’s installment of the syndicated television series, “The Greatest Drama” provides a biography of American conservative politician, lawyer, and Ohio Senator Robert Alphonso Taft Sr. (1889-1953), architect of the anti-union Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 that banned closed shops as an amendment to the 1935 Labor Relations Act (TRT: 12:37). The New York City Victory Parade of 1946. Title overlay: “The Greatest Drama” (0:07). Robert Taft stares into the camera. Title overlay: “Mr. Republican” (0:28). The rear of the White House. 27th President William Howard Taft speaks (0:36). W.H. Taft at home and in closeup (0:46). Still photos circa the 1890’s: Robert Taft as a baby, a young boy in a sailor’s suit and cap, in a boy soldier’s uniform with a fixed bayonet, and with his family in a pleated suit, circa his father’s 1908 election to the U.S. presidency (0:57). St. Chrysostom’s Church and the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Robert Taft as a student. Classical architecture of Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The bronze statue of John Harvard by Daniel Chester French during a snowy winter. The Johnston Gates to Harvard Yard (1:15). The MS American Leader merchant cargo ship (Type C1-B). Herbert Hoover. French crowds in front of a boulangerie. A sack of red cross supplies. A girl carries loaves of french bread (1:32). Separate, mismatched, framed photos of Robert Taft and his wife Martha Bowers (1:47). The Taft estate at Sky Haven Farm in Cincinnati, Ohio. Taft smiles and waves from a desk covered with books and documents (1:55). A town hall, dated 1944. Scenes of the 1938 election. Voters, registrars. Curtained voting booths and ballot drop boxes. Taft reads a newspaper, beaming for the camera (2:15). A false mockup of a Daily Tribune headline: “Bob and Martha Win” The White House Lawn. A group of nine elderly men stand around Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who signs a document at his desk (2:36). Taft speaks and makes a show of ripping a document in half at a press conference speech against the New Deal (2:54). The Taft home at 1688 31st St. NW, Washington, D.C. (3:19). Bob and Martha at their dining room table (3:27). Title: “Repubican Convention 1940” over crowded entrance gates. Inside the convention hall (3:44). Wendell Willkie in closeup (4:06). Title: “Republican Convention 1944” over Chicago Stadium. Delegates gather inside “The Madhouse on Madison.” Thomas E. Dewey waves from the podium (4:11). Title: “Republican Convention 1948” over Philadelphia City Hall. The convention floor. A baby elephant draped in a banner: “Win With Taft, Senator Bob Is My Boy! Dailey Bros. Circus” (4:38). A young woman sits atop a photo op painting of another elephant endorsing Dewey (4:56). Taft boards a yacht (Hazel Mack, Miami, FLA) while on vacation. A friend hauls in a marlin and Taft poses with it. Golfing with General Omar Bradley (5:04). The United States Capitol and Senate (5:44). Headline: “Labor Reform Bill Wins!” The signing of the Taft-Hartley Act. Shaking hands with Fred A. Hartley Jr. (5:56). Labor organizers march in a demonstration parade, carrying signs calling for repeal of the act. Women handle Taft campaign stickers. Ohio voting booths. Taft on the phone and in Washington following his re-election (6:13). A campaign bus: “Win with Taft.” The 1952 campaign trail. Kissing his grandchildren (7:20). Title: “Republican Convention 1952.” Dwight D. Eisenhower and signs: “We Like Ike” (8:09). Taft visits and endorses Eisenhower. Eisenhower announces cabinet members at a press conference (9:14). Golfing with the President. Taft on crutches (10:06). Exterior: “The New York Hospital” Headline: “Taft in Coma, Sinking Fast.” Mourners at the Capitol. Taft’s casket lies in state (10:43). Taft’s face superimposed over the Capitol. End credits (11:42). This episode of “The Greatest Drama” was written and produced by Michael Sklar and narrated by Raymond Edward Johnson for Movietone General Telecasting. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. 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