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Your Graduation Gift: Despair
(New Outlook, 1933)

This is a graduation commencement speech that was written simply to appear on the printed page of a 1933 magazine – it was far too depressing to have ever been recited before an audience of eager-eared graduates and their doting relatives.

You know, of course, that ‘times are hard’… You know that less than ten percent of the post-graduate professional men from last year’s class have found work. And you have heard from home. Allowances have been cut. Classmates have had to drop out of college. Old family friends have had grave misfortunes. Homes have been lost. You know all these things, but you can’t realize them fully at this moment. You will, unfortunately, realize them only too well when you yourselves try to find a place in the world.

Harold Ickes Wrote the Relief Checks
(New Outlook, 1935)

When Harold Ickes (1874 – 1952) assumed his post as FDR’s Secretary of the Department of the Interior he found himself in charge of three distinct governmental concerns. The first of these elements to be lorded over was the public lands (mines, forests and Indian reservations). His second responsibility was involved with the drilling of oil. The third and most observed cell in his official asylum was that of Administrator of Public Works Three Billion Dollar Fund. He was under instruction to spend this as rapidly as possible…It would give work to the workless, get money into circulation and encourage business.

Click here to read about President Harry Truman…

Child Labor
(New Outlook Magazine, 1933)

As you can read in this article, you’ll find that child labor throughout most of the Thirties had not been eradicated fully and was very much alive in some of the more brutal parts of the nation. That said, you might be surprised to know that the proposed amendment to the constitution concerning the ban on child labor (18 and bellow) has never been ratified by the Congress even to this day. When this column was written the proposed amendment was already nine years old and the politician who penned it held that the legislation was similar Prohibition in that it attempted to impose a moral code upon the American people. He believed that this was matter best left to the states; he further pointed out that the recently passed National Recovery Act had abolished child labor by fiat (and when the NRA was invalidated by the Supreme Court in 1935, child labor abuses increased a small degree).

Child labor was finally brought under control with the passage of the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938.

The Plummeting Salaries
(New Outlook Magazine, 1933)

In this article, Dorothy Dunbar Bromley (1896 – 1986) addressed one of the preeminent issue of her day: the rapidly decreasing salaries of the American worker:

If we are fatuous optimists, it is because we have only the vaguest idea of how appalling the situation is. We have read a great deal about the return of of the garment sweatshop of fifty years ago, with the same abominable conditions and the same exploitation of women and children for a few cents an hour, or for no pay at all…

More on this exploitation can be read here…

The Political Climate in Germany
(New Outlook Magazine, 1932

By the early Thirties the anointed of Europe realized that there would be no economic recovery for the continent if Germany was not a part of it. With this in mind, a delegation convened in Lausanne, Switzerland where it was decided by representatives from France, Britain and Germany that the reparation payments imposed upon the defeated countries by the Treaty of Versailles would be suspended. Hitler’s followers were of the mind that Germany should not have signed the agreement unless the war-guilt clause was removed from the Versailles Treaty. This article addresses the general political climate in Germany as 1932 came to a close.

‘Outlines of Fascism”
(New Outlook Magazine, 1934)

Will fascism come in the wake of the New Deal? The writer surveys its rapid post-war spread through Europe, reviews its origins in the writings of Pareto and Sorel and indicates steps that lead to its establishment.

An article about FDR’s Alphabet Agencies can be read here…

An article that refutes the argument as to whether FDR was a fascist can be read here…

The 1935 German Economy
(New Outlook Magazine, 1935)

Within the cozy confines of the attached PDF is a thumbnail report concerning the Third Reich’s economy during the first six months of 1935: imports, exports, bartering. They were compiled by Edward H. Collins for the editors at New Outlook magazine.

Germany’s chief economist was a remarkable fellow, click here to read about him.

The 1934 German Economy
(New Outlook Magazine, 1934)

Attached herein are thumbnail reports on how the Third Reich economy was faring during the last six months of 1934. For the month of October a report begins –

The developments in the German trade situation in recent weeks are best summed up in the following newspaper headline of recent date:

REICH TO GLORIFY HUNGER AS VIRTUE

The Problem With Codes
(New Outlook, 1934)

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Tyranny At Home
(New Outlook Magazine, 1935)

In the Spring of 1935, as the world slipped deeper and deeper into the muck of the Great Depression, journalist Cedric Fowler noticed that both governments state and Federal were introducing legislation that was designed to muzzle free-speech and make the deportation of foreign radicals far easier. At first he thought it was a result of the spread of Fascism across the globe – and it had finally reached our shores. He also considered the possibility that the elected classes, realizing that they were unable to reduce the destruction of the Depression, felt emasculated and invigorated by picking on the radical minority. Either way, he feared for the nations future.