Articles from 1937
Roving Photoplay correspondent Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. traveled far afield to Yerovila Jail in Poona in order to ask the incarcerated Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948) a question of an entirely trivial nature:
What is your favorite American movie?
Gahndi and American Movies (Photoplay Magazine, 1937) Read More »
Roving Photoplay correspondent Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. traveled far afield to Yerovila Jail in Poona in order to ask the incarcerated Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948) a question of an entirely trivial nature:
What is your favorite American movie?
Gahndi and American Movies (Photoplay Magazine, 1937) Read More »
Roving Photoplay correspondent Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. traveled far afield to Yerovila Jail in Poona in order to ask the incarcerated Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948) a question of an entirely trivial nature:
What is your favorite American movie?
Gahndi and American Movies (Photoplay Magazine, 1937) Read More »
Roving Photoplay correspondent Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. traveled far afield to Yerovila Jail in Poona in order to ask the incarcerated Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948) a question of an entirely trivial nature:
What is your favorite American movie?
Gahndi and American Movies (Photoplay Magazine, 1937) Read More »
Speaking of Evil Geniuses, let’s not forget all that the German chemists did to dream-up efficient substitutes for motor fuel, rubber, coal and various metals just before Hitler launched the war in Europe.
The most significant little word in the German vocabulary of 1937 is Ersatz. In two syllables, which, literally translated, means ‘substitute’, it summarizes the bold experiment in rigged economy which is Adolf Hitler’s Four Year Plan… The Reich’s great chemical industry went into high gear immediately, and at this point Ersatz became the big little word of the German language.
‘German Ersatz” (Literary Digest, 1937) Read More »
Saturday night in Stalin’s Moscow: so much to do! If you wanted to take your date to a Russian movie you could go to Battleship Potemkin, or you could take her to Battleship Potemkin, or to Battleship Potemkin! On the other hand, you might choose a foreign movie that was approved by the all-knowing Soviet apparatchik, and in that case the two of you would see a Charlie Chaplin movie – and we’ll give you one guess as to which one he liked.
Click here if you want to know what films Hitler liked.
Movie Night in the Worker’s Paradise (Photoplay, 1937) Read More »
Click here to read about an American woman who grew heartily sick of the socialists who loitered on every street corner during the Great Depression…
Low-Wage Pay Scales for Working Women (Pathfinder Magazine, 1937) Read More »
Italy’s friction with the League of Nations began May 11, 1936, when her delegates stalked out of a lively League Council meeting after it had voted to continue economic sanctions against her over the Ethiopian war.
Nazi Germany quit the League years earlier, click here to read about it…
Fascist Italy Quits the League of Nations (Literary Digest, 1937) Read More »
Congressional eyes bulged last January when President Roosevelt handed Congress his plan to streamline the executive branch of the Government. He asked for sixspecial assistants, two new cabinet officers, an auditor general (to supplant the all-powerful Controller General), a reshuffling and consolidation of boards and bureaus and an expansion of the civil service in all directions.
He Re-Organized (Literary Digest, 1937) Read More »
Gas, even in its most virulent form, is the most rational as well as the most humane weapon ever employed on the battlefield. It is also – and this should certainly be of interest to the advocates of strict neutrality – the only weapon in the arsenal of Mars which can truly be called defensive.
‘The Pleasures of Gas Warfare” (Literary Digest, 1937) Read More »
