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With The Marines (Scribner’s Magazine, 1919)

A U.S. Army officer was ordered to march with the Marines during their first engagement of the war and explained all that he saw:True to their tradition of ever being the first to fight, the Marines made up, in part, the first fighting unit of the A.E.F. to reach foreign shores… It was my fortune to to be assigned to the Marines and my privilege to go with them into the front line for their first hitch.

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Reds Among Us (Scribner’s Magazine, 1930)

When the market crashed in the Fall of 1929, the Communist Party of America really thought their hour had arrived. They took to the streets with their red banners and set to work fomenting unrest in whatever factories were still afloat. Most Americans recognized their blarney as mere pie in the sky and would have none of it; still their membership lists were growing and many Americans were wondering how they should be dealt with. This article examined how the communists were organized, what they were up to and recommended that Americans should keep in mind that the Reds will go when prosperity returns – and not before.


We also have an article on The Daily Worker.

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‘The Rising Tide of Prohibition Repeal (Scribner’s Magazine, 1930)

Having suffered the scourge of the noble experiment for over ten years, Dudley Cammet Lunt, an attorney, penned this essay about how the states could be done with that Federal edict:

In discussing Article V in The Federalist Papers [Alexander Hamilton] said: ‘We may safely rely on the disposition of the State legislatures to erect barriers against the encroachments of the national authority.’

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