Articles from 1921
Here is a news article about Madame Marie Curie (1867 – 1934), it concerns the fact that although she discovered Radium, and conducted numerous important experiments upon it, she didn’t possess so much as a gram of the stuff. This problem was remedied by a coterie of American women of science who convened and agreed to provide her with the missing gram.
It All Began With Madame Curie (Literary Digest, 1921) Read More »
When Washington D. Vanderlip made his way to the nascent Soviet Union to secure mining rights in Siberia he wrote of his meeting with the nation’s first dictator, Vladimir Lenin, and revealed a Lenin that was seldom seen in print. He wasn’t blathering on about the proletariat or the bourgeoisie but rather musing about his pastimes and dreams for the future.
On his desk was a copy of the New York Times, well-thumbed. ‘Do you really read it?’ I asked. ‘I read the New York Times, the Chicago American and the Los Angeles Times regularly,’ he said.’Through the New York Times I keep track of the atrocities, the assassinations and the new revolutions in Russia. Otherwise I wouldn’t know where to find them.’
The Conversational Lenin (Literary Digest, 1921) Read More »
Attached is a book review of what was described as the first book of it’s kind: a compilation of assorted recollections by Imperial German officers of their years spent in captivity at the officer’s prisoner of war camp at Skipton in Yorkshire.
German Officers Recall Their Days as P.O.W.s (Times Literary Supplement, 1921) Read More »
As many of the readers in the OldMagazineArticles.com audience have figured out, the purpose of this site is to allow the past to represent itself — warts and all, and few articles make manifest this policy better than this 1921 article which reported on the efforts of an appropriately forgotten scientist from the University of Virginia, Dr. George Oscar Ferguson. Ferguson was the author of a project that somehow measured the intelligence of African Americans and White Americans and concluded that his:
psychological study of the Negro indicates that he will never be the mental equal of the white race.
Bogus Science and the Intelligence of African-Americans (Current Opinion, 1921) Read More »
Tobacco is not food. It is a drug. A healthy human being can get along without it. One who has never used it is better off, his health has a surer foundation and his life expectancy is greater than in the case of one who is a habitual user.
The cautionary paragraph posted above was written in the early Twenties, and this article points out that the health advocates of the that era were not delusional or ill-informed in matters involving tobacco and health care. Tobacco’s ability to harm was understood so well that an effort was afoot in the U.S. Congress to make the weed illegal. Needless to say, that effort did not get very far.
In the 1950s, some people questioned whether cigarettes were truly dangerous – click here to read about it…
Shall Tobacco Be Prohibited, Too? (Current Opinion, 1921) Read More »
After the slaughter of the First World War, the Christian Churches were under heavy scrutiny for essentially serving as enablers in each of the individual combatant nations – failing utterly to bring an end to the violence. In their monthly collaboration, Repition Generale, George Jean Nathan (1882 – 1958) and H.L. Mencken (1880 – 1956) launched a broadside at the Christian Bishops for their elite, bullet-proof status in the world.
In 1900 people wanted to know why men didn’t like going to church…
H.L. Mencken Admonishes Catholic Hierarchy (The Smart Set, 1921) Read More »
Attached is a 1921 account of the Hampton Institute; it’s past, present and future is entirely outlined in this magazine article that was written by a celebrated journalist of the time, Mr. Talcott Williams (1849 – 1928).
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The Hampton Institute as it Stood in 1921 (The Independent, 1921) Read More »
Attached is a 1921 account of the Hampton Institute; it’s past, present and future is entirely outlined in this magazine article that was written by a celebrated journalist of the time, Mr. Talcott Williams (1849 – 1928).
Click here for the Ku Klux Klan Archive.
The Hampton Institute as it Stood in 1921 (The Independent, 1921) Read More »
Attached is a 1921 account of the Hampton Institute; it’s past, present and future is entirely outlined in this magazine article that was written by a celebrated journalist of the time, Mr. Talcott Williams (1849 – 1928).
Click here for the Ku Klux Klan Archive.
The Hampton Institute as it Stood in 1921 (The Independent, 1921) Read More »
Attached is a 1921 account of the Hampton Institute; it’s past, present and future is entirely outlined in this magazine article that was written by a celebrated journalist of the time, Mr. Talcott Williams (1849 – 1928).
Click here for the Ku Klux Klan Archive.
The Hampton Institute as it Stood in 1921 (The Independent, 1921) Read More »
