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The World Wide Military Expansion (The Literary Digest, 1935)
1930s Military Buildup, 1935, Recent Articles, The Literary Digest

The World Wide Military Expansion
(The Literary Digest, 1935)

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A 1935 magazine article which presented a table of statistics regarding the the European military expansion and then concluded by stating:

It seems fair to offer the opinion that a major war is likely within the next ten years because the pressure of rising armament expenditure promises to be so great as to develop the explosion that bound to come.

In 1940 former W.W. I Prime Minister David Lloyd George wrote an editorial in which he condemned the leaders of Europe for procrastinating rather than dealing with Hitler when Germany was still weak.
Click here to read it.

The KKK in Federal Court (The Literary Digest, 1928)
1928, Ku Klux Klan, Recent Articles, The Literary Digest

The KKK in Federal Court
(The Literary Digest, 1928)

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Attached is a two-page article about that day in 1928 when the KKK stood before Judge W.H.S. Thomson in a Federal Court in Pittsburgh:

A Daniel has come to judgment, in the opinion of many a newspaper writer, when a Federal judge in a formal opinion read the bench delivers a denunciation of the Ku Klux Klan in terms as strong as any of the private enemies of that organization have ever used. Federal Judge W.H.S. Thomson, in concluding that complicated KKK trial, remarked that the Klan was an ‘unlawful organization’ coming into court ‘with filthy hands after open and flagrant violation’ of the law…


CLICK HERE to read about African-Americans during the Great Depression.

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One of the First Reviews of 'Sons and Lovers' (Vanity Fair, 1913)
1913, Twentieth Century Writers, Vanity Fair Magazine

One of the First Reviews of ‘Sons and Lovers’
(Vanity Fair, 1913)

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Later in the century there would be many ink-slingers to gush over the talents of D.H. Lawrence (1885 – 1930); but in 1913, the writer would simply have to bide his time and suffer the reviews that were printed in the society pages.

It emphatically is not a book for the ‘young person’, and it is certainly a book that will make the older conservative wince a bit…nevertheless it is a study that was worth doing, and D.H. Lawrence has done it well. He has dealt with very real things in a way that leaves a distinctness of impression unequaled by nine books out of ten one picks up nowadays.

One of the First Reviews of 'Sons and Lovers' (Vanity Fair, 1913)
1913, Twentieth Century Writers, Vanity Fair Magazine

One of the First Reviews of ‘Sons and Lovers’
(Vanity Fair, 1913)

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Later in the century there would be many ink-slingers to gush over the talents of D.H. Lawrence (1885 – 1930); but in 1913, the writer would simply have to bide his time and suffer the reviews that were printed in the society pages.

It emphatically is not a book for the ‘young person’, and it is certainly a book that will make the older conservative wince a bit…nevertheless it is a study that was worth doing, and D.H. Lawrence has done it well. He has dealt with very real things in a way that leaves a distinctness of impression unequaled by nine books out of ten one picks up nowadays.

The Deserters from the U.S. Army (See Magazine, 1948)
1948, Recent Articles, See Magazine, World War Two

The Deserters from the U.S. Army
(See Magazine, 1948)

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Illustrated with seven photographs, article was written some three years after the close of the war and reported on the efforts of the Allied Armies and local police authorities globally to track-down some 10,000 deserters from the U.S. Army. In the mid-fifties the Department of the Army had estimated that the total number of deserters from all branches of the American military added up to 21,000, but in 1948 the army was happy just to find these 10,000 men: the numeric equivalent of an entire division.


The article is composed of short, choppy paragraphs that present for the reader some of the more interesting stories of World War II desertion. A good read.

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A German Dissident Recalls His Incarceration (Ken Magazine, 1938)
1938, Ken Magazine, Recent Articles, The Nazis

A German Dissident Recalls His Incarceration
(Ken Magazine, 1938)

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Locked-up for having run an underground newspaper in the Third Reich, this is the harrowing story one dissident’s experiences in the Nazi concentration camps:

What a relief it would be to take that uniformed scoundrel by the throat, throw him on the floor, pay him back for his beating, yell ‘You dog! You swine!’

•Read about the American reporter who became a Nazi…•

1939, Ken Magazine, Pseudotheology, Recent Articles

Nazis Against the Christian Churches
(Ken Magazine, 1939)

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As pastor of the little Austrian church, the good father was happy until Nazis swallowed the country, mistreated his Jewish converts and threw many of his colleagues into the dreaded concentration camp of Dachau. Shocked, he attempted to preserve a fragmentary picture of events for posterity – and found himself in Dachau. Similar episodes, which are today common throughout Nazidom, only succeed in stiffening the Catholic fight against Nazism.

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He was a Dirty Campaigner... (Collier's Magazine, 1952)
1952, Collier's Magazine, F.D.R.

He was a Dirty Campaigner…
(Collier’s Magazine, 1952)

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FDR’s predecessor, Herbert Hoover, wrote a series of articles concerning his own presidency that appeared on the pages of COLLIER’S MAGAZINE throughout the spring of 1952. The sixth installment was devoted to his 1932 reelection bid against FDR and the Roosevelt Hoover remembered was an under-handed campaigner who surrounded himself with liars and all sorts of other aids and speechwriters who took liberties with the truth in all matter’s involving the record of Hoover’s administration.


CLICK HERE to read about President Hoover and the Bonus Army…

Inchon Definition
1950, Pathfinder Magazine, The Korean War

False Hope in Washington
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1950)

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This snippet appeared on the newsstands shortly after Halloween, 1950. It will give you a sense of the great relief that was felt not simply in the halls of Congress and the Pentagon, but all across the country. The journalist wrote this report as if decades had past and a distant memory was being recalled about a five month-long war that was once fought and won by the all-suffering Americans and their U.N. Allies, but the Communists learned their lesson, so we don’t have to worry about them anymore. The war’s turning point is hailed (The Inchon Landings), as is General MacArthur, American casualty figures are listed and mention is made of the South Koreans moving into the recently liberated towns of the North. But this same reporter would write a very different article for the next issue of the magazine when he would relay that the war had expanded, and casualty figures had ballooned with the intervention of the Chinese Army.

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Is Bobby Jones Losing Interest in Golf? (Literary Digest, 1929)
1929, Golf History, Recent Articles, The Literary Digest

Is Bobby Jones Losing Interest in Golf?
(Literary Digest, 1929)

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The two page article attached herein addresses the meteoric rise of the American golf legend Bobby Jones (1902 – 1971). Said to have been a child prodigy in the game, he made his mark early, winning the 1923 U.S. Open against Bobby Cruickshank (1894 – 1975) at the age of 19. Trophies came to him effortlessly during the course of the following six years and, judging from the question posed above, the golf journalists were right: Bobby Jones was losing interest in the game – he would leave competitive golf the following year.

Max Beckman Since the War (Art Digest, 1946)
1946, Modern Art, Recent Articles, The Art Digest

Max Beckman Since the War
(Art Digest, 1946)

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Max Beckmann (1884 – 1950), having fled to Holland from his native Germany in order to escape Hitler, arrived in New York shortly after the end of the war and wasted no time in securing an aggressive dealer eager to arrange liasons between him and the the post-war dollar.

The first exhibition of Max Beckman’s work since 1941 is currently being held at the Bucholz Gallery in New York. Director Kurt Valentin has assembled for this event important examples of Beckman’s brush dating from 1939 to the present…Among the many drawings particularly remembered are a satirical ‘Radio Singer’ and a tongue-in-cheek ‘Anglers’, along with ‘Head Waiters’.

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archived article about artist s model who posed for BALZAC by Rodin
1955, Modern Art, People Today Magazine, Recent Articles

He Posed for Auguste Rodin
(People Today Magazine, 1955)

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Sixty years before this article was published, Libero Nardonne, who posed for the Rodin’s celebrated sculpture, The Kiss (1885), enjoyed a life as one of the most popular artist’s model in all of Paris – at a time when the greatest artist’s in the world were residences of that famous burg. Jump forward to 1955 and you would find him a broke and broken man who lived on the streets – nonetheless, he showed the American photographers through the art museums to point out all the masterpieces he had played a part in creating.

A W.W. II Hero Speaks Out About Heroes and Heroism (Collier's, 1945)
1945, Collier's Magazine, Medal of Honor Recipients

A W.W. II Hero Speaks Out About Heroes and Heroism
(Collier’s, 1945)

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Carlton Rouh was awarded the M.o.H. for performing numerous acts of courage on the South Pacific island of Peleliu during the September of 1944; in this article he speaks bluntly about the nature of heroes and the discomfort they experience when being praised in a nation that was so deeply in need for such men.

Click here to read about another W.W. II Medal of Honor recipient.

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