FDR’s Proposal to Limit Personal Income
By the end of the war, FDR’s administration had placed taxable personal income as high as 94%(!). His Brain Trust […]
The Strategist
Here is a Collier’s profile of U.S. Admiral Raymond Spruance (1886 – 1969): “Our latest successes in New Guinea, the Solomons and
The Bombed-Out Germans
A report by a Swiss journalist as to what becomes of the Germans who are left homeless after the bombings:
Cars are Here to Stay
This article explains those heady days spanning the years 1900 through 1910 when the apostles of the automobile were given
1940, Collier's Magazine, World War Two
Canada Steps Up for Britain
In 1939, “Canada wisely decided that she could become an ideal training center for pilots and airmen generally. Canada could
‘The Hope of American English”
Vanity Fair correspondent L.L. Jones cracked open a copy of The American Language by H.L. Mencken:
At last a man has arrived who knows something about English prose style under American conditions…
The rest of his thoughts can be read in the attached review.
An Eye-Full of Post-War Tokyo
An eyewitness account of the devastation delivered to Tokyo as reported by the first Americans to enter that city following the Japanese surrender some weeks earlier:
The people of Tokyo are taking the arrival of the first few Americans with impeccable Japanese calm. Sometimes they turn and look at us twice, but they have shown no emotion toward us except a mild curiosity and occasional amusement…They are still proud and a little bit superior. They know they lost the war, but they are not apologizing for it.
Click here to read about the humbled Japan.
Eating Crow (PM, & Newsweek Magazine, 1945)
Four years after Pearl Harbor, the editors of the Japanese newspaper Asahi gazed out of the windows from their offices and saw the charred remains of their enemy-occupied homeland and recognized that they’d made a fatal mistake:
We once more refresh our horror at the colossal crime committed and are filled with a solemn sense of reflection and self-reproach…
Eating Crow (PM, & Newsweek Magazine, 1945)
Four years after Pearl Harbor, the editors of the Japanese newspaper Asahi gazed out of the windows from their offices and saw the charred remains of their enemy-occupied homeland and recognized that they’d made a fatal mistake:
We once more refresh our horror at the colossal crime committed and are filled with a solemn sense of reflection and self-reproach…
‘God and Alcoholics” (Liberty Magazine, 1939)
Somebody said The Lord’s Prayer as the meeting broke up. I walked three blocks to the subway station. Just as I was about to go down the stairs – bang! – It happened! I don’t like the word miracle, but that’s all I can call it. The lights in the street seemed to flared up. My feet seemed to leave the pavement. A kind of shiver went over me and I burst into tears…I haven’t touched a drop in four years and I’ve sent four other fellows on the same road.