Articles from The Literary Digest
While strong on land and in the air, [the Soviet Union] is weak on the water. Most Russian ships are World War or pre-War in origin, and many of her best vessels are in the Baltic, facing Germany, or in the Far East, where Japan looms up.
A Soviet Need to Update (The Literary Digest, 1937) Read More »
While strong on land and in the air, [the Soviet Union] is weak on the water. Most Russian ships are World War or pre-War in origin, and many of her best vessels are in the Baltic, facing Germany, or in the Far East, where Japan looms up.
A Soviet Need to Update (The Literary Digest, 1937) Read More »
An article about American pilot Ruth Elder (1902 – 1977), who attempted to be the first woman aviator to fly to Paris; crashing in the Atlantic mid-flight:
she has to her credit the longest flight made entirely over water, beating the Pacific fliers by about 200 miles…She will rank with the most daring fliers of this year of aerial wonders.
Elder parlayed her notoriety into a starring roll in a Hollywood movie that came out the following year: Moran of the Marines.
Read a 1918 article about the women’s city.
Ruth Elder: American Super-Girl (Literary Digest, 1927) Read More »
The attached jazz-age magazine article is about the creation of what we have come to call video communication; that is to say, the electronic compliance between telephone and video screen working in complete harmony in order that both participants can view one another during the conversation – and although one-sided, this did take place as early as 1927 when future President Herbert Hoover, in Washington, addressed an audience in New York (they were not viewed by the former).
Oh Boy! Two-Way Video Chatting (Literary Digest, 1927) Read More »
Attached herein is a printable list of the important record-breaking flights in aviation history that made the world sit up and take notice.
Notable Flights 1919 – 1931 (the Literary Digest, 1935) Read More »
Attached is a brief article on the topic Native American music and the studies of Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838 – 1923), who had overseen a number of Native American archival recording sessions around the time this article appeared in print. Fletcher once wrote:
We find more or less of it in Beethoven and Schubert, still more in Schumann and Chopin, most of all in Wagner and Liszt.
Unsuspected Qualities of Native American Music (Literary Digest, 1908) Read More »
André Tardieu (1876 – 1945),while writing for the French magazine TEMPS, committed to paper these unkind words regarding the Italian opera star Enrico Caruso (1873 – 1921) in an attempt, perhaps, to only slander Caruso’s many adoring American fans and the culture that created them.
…the American public admire only those artist’s for whom they pay dear.
A Bad Review for Enrico Caruso (The Literary Digest, 1908) Read More »
Some were called Lishentsi, some were called land lords, Romanov lackies, the rich, the elite or simply the middle class; no matter what the ruling Soviets labeled their preferred bogeymen, they wanted them out of the way. The attached article goes into some detail as to how this was done.
The Drive on Undesirables (The Literary Digest, 1933) Read More »
Little Switzerland will not be caught as Belgium was in 1914. The ‘Isle of Peace’, home of the League of Nations that was to forge all nations of the world together into a chain of amity, is fortifying her frontiers to the tune of war-rumbles. The army and air forces are being expanded in preparation for that ‘inevitable’ war Europe seems to be resigned to. She realizes that the only way to preserve her peace is to be prepared to fight for it.
A Swiss statesman, in an interview with correspondents, summed up his individual reaction, which probably holds good for the majority of the population, when he said:
War will come. We will try to stay out at any price, save our liberty. The moment a foreign soldier crosses our border, we will fight.
And you may rest assured that we shall fight to the last man.
Military Buildup in Switzerland (Literary Digest, 1937) Read More »
Appearing on newsstands fourteen years prior to the outbreak of the First World War was this small piece from THE LITERARY DIGEST declaring that the thirst for military glory was woven into the very fiber of the French Republic:
Not within the memory of living men has France been the mistress of continental Europe; yet the memory of her military glory is still vivid among her people, and the expressions of many of her writers show that she has not given up her proud preeminence.
Revenge for Sedan is a sentiment necessary to our national existence.
Click here to read a 1912 article about the expansion of the Imperial German Navy.
The Need for French Military Glory (Literary Digest, 1900) Read More »
