A Price was Paid at Fismette (American Legion Weekly, 1924)
A two page history of the 32nd Division and their struggle to eradicate the bulge in the Marne battle line that resulted in the liberation of Fismette and Fismes.
1924
Articles from 1924
The Little Things That Made Babe Ruth (Colliers’ Magazine, 1924)
A confidant cashed-in on his chum Babe Ruth and provided numerous factoids regarding the baseball legend’s habits, manias and obsessions that are not likely to be added to the Baseball Hall of Fame archives.
Sammy Sosa in our day may use steroids, but unlike Babe Ruth, at least he wears underwear…
A Tribute to General Pershing (American Legion Weekly, 1924)
Six years after the last shot was fired, war correspondent Frederick Palmer (1873 – 1958) typed up some sweet words of praise for the American W.W. I Commanding General John Pershing:
When the people at home were thinking in terms of thousands, Pershing planned for an army of a million men overseas…He was organizer and molder of the A.E.F.. The stamp of his character was upon it in so far as any one man can put his stamp upon a vast, modern army.
During that brief period of the war in which Pershing’s Doughboys were at bat against the Germans, Palmer worked under the general as the press liaison officer and censor for the entire A.E.F. (a job he hated). His bitter recollections of W.W. I were recorded in his 1921 memoir; click here to read the review.
Click here to read an article from 1927 by General Pershing regarding the American cemeteries in Europe.
The KKK Factor and the 1924 Elections (Literary Digest, 1924)
Written on the heels of the 1924 election, this article listed who among KKK candidates won or lost their respective contests. The journalist collected a number of opinions pulled from as many as twenty mid-western newspapers, including two Klan-owned papers: The Oklahoma Fiery Cross and The Illinois Kourier.