1933

Articles from 1933

The Down-Hill Side of Being a Society Girl (Collier’s Magazine, 1933)

The attached Collier’s article was written by two post-debs of the Boston/Manhattan variety who were both products of what they called the approval mill of America’s upper-crust. Having been run through the right schools and the right summer camps, they attended the right parties and made charming with all the right people; looking back in their 20s, they were able to see how this long-treasured practice prepared them poorly for life – tending to perpetuate the spiraling vortex of women who were educated and polite, yet unable to think.

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FDR: The First One Hundred Days (Literary Digest, 1933)

Here are the Chief accomplishments of the special Session of the 73rd Congress, March 9 – June 16, 1933


These fifteen pieces of legislation were called the Honeymoon Bills – his critics pointed out that not one of them originated in Congress and added to their argument that Congress had been marginalized during the earliest period of his presidency.


FDR’s critics had a thing or two to say about the first year of The New Deal…


Click here to read about FDR and the press.

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The Great Depression Reduced the Number of Marriages (The Pathfinder, 1933)

We were interested to learn that two of the most semi-popular queries on Google are, 1930s wedding theme decorations and 1930 wedding dress styles – yet to read the attached article is to learn that the most accurate step that any contemporary wedding planner assigned this theme can recommend is that the happy couple forego the nuptial ceremony entirely and simply move in together. During the Great Depression very few couples could afford to get married, much less divorced.

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Hitler Gets a Bad Review (Atlantic Monthly, 1933)

With Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, the German-speaking Alice Hamilton (1869 – 1970; sister to the classics scholar, Edith) was assigned the task of reviewing Mein Kampf
(1925) for The Atlantic Monthly. She didn’t like it.

He loves rough, red-blooded words – ‘relentless’, ‘steely’, ‘iron-hearted’, ‘brutal’; his favorite phrase is ‘ruthless brutality’. His confidence in himself is unbounded.
The royalties generated by the sales of Mein Kampf made Adolf Hitler a very rich man. To read about this wealth and Hitler’s financial adviser, click here.

Read another review of Mein Kampf.

Although Hitler didn’t mention it his book, German-Americans drove him crazy.

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Hitler Gets a Bad Review (Atlantic Monthly, 1933)

With Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, the German-speaking Alice Hamilton (1869 – 1970; sister to the classics scholar, Edith) was assigned the task of reviewing Mein Kampf
(1925) for The Atlantic Monthly. She didn’t like it.

He loves rough, red-blooded words – ‘relentless’, ‘steely’, ‘iron-hearted’, ‘brutal’; his favorite phrase is ‘ruthless brutality’. His confidence in himself is unbounded.
The royalties generated by the sales of Mein Kampf made Adolf Hitler a very rich man. To read about this wealth and Hitler’s financial adviser, click here.

Read another review of Mein Kampf.

Although Hitler didn’t mention it his book, German-Americans drove him crazy.

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The Daily Worker (New Outlook, 1933)

The revolution in America today supports about a dozen main propaganda organs. Chief among them is The Daily Worker it makes no pretense at impartiality. It is a revolutionary [newspaper] and nothing else, frankly admitted at every turn. For the genuine Red no such thing as an impartial newspaper exists… No one gets paid very much in the Red press. Salaries of twenty or twenty-five dollars a week are the maximum. One reason is political, we are told. Revolutionaries do not believe in high salaries.


In 1887 the The New York Times reviewed the first English edition of Das Kapital by Karl Marx, click here to read it…


Click here to read more about the American communists of the 1930s.

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One of the First Katherine Hepburn Interviews (Collier’s Magazine, 1933)

It was 1933 interviews like this one that made the studio executives at RKO go absolutely bonkers; what were they to do with Katharine Hepburn (1907 – 2003)? She simply refused to take all matters Hollywood with any degree of seriousness; although she hadn’t been a movie actress for very long at all, Katherine Hepburn was downright impious and goofy when reporter’s questions were put to her:

‘Is it true that you have three children?’ asked the interviewer.

‘I think it’s six,’ she answered.

Such responses served only to frustrate the members of the fourth estate to such a high degree and it seemed only natural that the fan magazine journalists would want to have the final word as to who Katherine Hepburn really was…


-But the Hollywood press did like her future co-star Carry Grant, click here to read it.

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A Woman’s Place Within the Third Reich (Collier’s Magazine, 1933)

One of the kindest things you could possibly say about the Nazis is that they were sexists – and if you wanted to back your thesis up with anecdotes, facts and figures, you would read the attached article from 1933:

To say that woman’s place is in the home is understatement, so far as Adolf Hitler is concerned. Certainly she’s not to be allowed in the library. Intellectual life, as well as all business and legal affairs, is a purely masculine enterprise in the Third Reich. And the women, most of them, in hysterical devotion to their leader, obey. Mr. Quentin Reynolds, in a series of brilliant pictures, presents the women of modern Germany; triumphant and desperate.


CLICK HERE to read about the beautiful Blonde Battalions who spied for the Nazis…


Read about Hitler’s expert on sex and racial purity…

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Edward VIII: As Prince of Wales, His Politics Seemed Radical (Collier’s Magazine, 1933)

The Prince of Wales, to quote a conservative peer of the realm, day by day is getting commoner and commoner. There are even those who consider him a dangerous radical. But that doesn’t bother the prince. Unperturbed, he continues to fraternize with his unennobled subjects and to defend their interests – hotly and sometimes profanely.

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