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The Great Depression in the South (Pathfinder Magazine, 1938)

In the Summer of 1938 the New Deal administration turned its attention to the Southern States in an effort to solve the poverty that had long afflicted the region and was especially keen during the Great Depression:

The War Between the States freed the slaves, but it did not free the South. Old plantations were broken up. Pressed to meet mortgages, farmers leased part of their farms to tenants. Cheap [African-American] labor remained and children were pressed into service on the Southern fields. Cotton and low labor costs stayed in the South.


Read about FDR’s African-American advisers here…

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‘Uncle Ho Strikes Back” (Pathfinder Magazine, 1950)

Three years before the total French withdrawal from Vietnam, this one Frenchman summed up his comrade’s frustrations concerning their battles against the Viet Minh:

We can’t win a guerrilla war unless we have the support of the people. Frankly, we have not got it. Hitler or the Russians could conquer this country in two months with mass executions, wholesale reprisals and concentration camps. To fight this war and remain humanitarian is difficult.

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Justice Willis Van Devanter (Pathfinder Magazine, 1937)

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Justice Pierce Butler (Pathfinder Magazine, 1937)

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Justice Charles Evans Hughes (Pathfinder Magazine, 1937)

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Justice Charles Evans Hughes (Pathfinder Magazine, 1937)

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Shopping from Television (Pathfinder Magazine, 1951)

Before there was an HSN or a QVC – before there was an Adam Freeman or a Mary Beth Roe, there was Your Television Shopper and Leave It To The Girls starring Maggie Johnson and Faye Emerson, respectively. The programs were two of several such shows that aired during the prepubescent days of television broadcasting – and like the shopping shows that came along fifty years later, they, too, moved products off the shelves at a surprising pace.


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