Articles from 1940
A black and white photo-essay of a New York that is gone with the wind, written in that wonderfully irreverent slang-heavy patois so reminiscent of the movies of that era. We posted this piece to please that New York archivist in all of you: you will see images of the watering holes preferred by the high and the low, the museums, Fifth Ave., Harlem, and the Fulton Fish Market.
A 1940s Tour of Manhattan (Click Magazine, 1940) Read More »
We shall fight until the terror of the plutocracies has been broken.
– so blathered Adolf Hitler in a radio address from early 1940 in which he attempted to clarify the Nazi war aims. Never forgetting that the zi in Nazi is derived from Sozi for socialist (Compare with ‘Commie’ for ‘Communist’) – the dictator was heard here doing what he did from time to time in his speeches; borrowing the street hustle of the proletarian underdog (many thanks to WIKIanswers).
Click here to read another article on the same topic.
Speeches by Hitler and Chamberlain Compared (Pathfinder Magazine, 1940) Read More »
This is an interesting article that indicates just how profoundly elections had changed after 1920, when women began to vote. Previously, when the voting booth was a gender-specific domain, the victory margins were seldom greater than 10%; yet, beginning with the 1920 presidential election and continuing through the election of 1936, dramatic differences could be seen between the winners and losers that had never existed in prior contests.
The journalist believed that the advent of radio broadcasting also played a contributing factor in these elections.
Read a 1951 profile of a future First Lady: the young Nancy Reagan.
The Women Voter in Her First Five Elections (Pathfinder Magazine, 1940) Read More »
On February 29, at the Academy’s twelfth annual dinner at the Ambassador Hotel in Hollywood, Gone with the Wind surpassed [1934’s ‘It Happened One Night’] by winning eight out of sixteen possible prizes and garnering two special awards for good measure.
A Sweep at the Oscars (Newsweek Magazine, 1940) Read More »
In 1940, when America stood on the precipice preparing to enter another enormous conflict, the heretofore secret papers of Woodrow Wilson’s Secretary of State, Robert Lansing (1864 – 1928), were released – shedding light on the government’s reasoning as to why they felt U.S. intervention in the European war was necessary.
The Secret Papers of Robert Lansing (Pathfinder Magazine, 1940) Read More »
A Phony War magazine article by Major General George Ared White (1880 – 1941) in which he muses wistfully (as Oregon men are wont to do) as to all the various, dreadful choices that were spread before Herr Hitler in the early months of 1940.
As varied as Hitler’s military options were, the General believed that France’s Maginot Line was impregnable and he did not think that Hitler would commit to such an undertaking. General White believed Hitler had six options before him which are all illustrated on the attached cartoon map.
Hitler’s Military Options in 1940 (Click Magazine, 1940) Read More »
Fashion Modeling Czar John Powers once said of model Georgia Carroll:
She is the most terrific thing that ever hit this business.
Georgia Carroll (The American Magazine, 1940) Read More »
In respect to their economic status, it has been estimated that one-half to two-thirds of the city children of America are in homes where annual income is too low to permit the family to buy items called for in an ordinary ‘maintenance’ budget – a budget of about $1,261 to meet the normal needs of living in a family of four.
CLICK HERE to read about African-Americans during the Great Depression.
Children in Need (Pathfinder Magazine, 1940) Read More »
What a Time It Was!: Leonard Lyons and the Golden Age of New York Nightlife KEY WORDS: 1930s NY High Society at El Morocco Nightclub,John Perona founder of El Morocco Nightclub,New Yorker Cartoonist at El Morocco Nightclub 1940,NY Debutante Brenda Frazier El Morocco Nightclub,Broasway Star Mary Martin pictured at El Morocco Nightclub 1940,Winthrop Rockefeller pictured
El Morocco (Click Magazine, 1940) Read More »
There, to a coterie of Lincoln addicts on Abe’s 131st birthday, U.S. Patent Commissioner Conway P. Coe displayed a model of a device Lincoln patented in 1849, when he was still an unknown congressman from Illinois. Commissioner Coe read the patent application, in Lincoln’s own handwriting, for a gadget to float flatboats in shallow water.
Abraham Lincoln: Inventor (Pathfinder Magazine, 1940) Read More »
