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New Deal Bureaucratic Agencies 1934 | FDR's Brain Trust Appointees | Intellectuals in NEW DEAL
1934, Brain Trust, New Outlook Magazine

The Brain Trusters (New Outlook Magazine, 1934)

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A year and a half into FDR’s first term, journalist William E. Berchtold caught wind of a growing realization in Washington that most of the ’emergency’ legislation will become permanent. This didn’t bother him nearly as much as the fact that such imperishability also meant that the host of beta males who were positioned to maintain this behemoth would also be remaining (History has taught us that it was not FDR’s alphabet agencies that became a mainstay, but those of LBJ).

'The Black Brain Trust'' (The American Magazine, 1943)
1943, Brain Trust, The American Magazine

‘The Black Brain Trust” (The American Magazine, 1943)

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The Black Brain Trust consists of about 25 Negro leaders who have assumed command of America’s 13,000,000 Negroes in their fight for equality. They hold informal meetings to plan their strategy, whether it is to defeat a discriminatory bill in Congress or to overcome a prejudice against a private [in the army]. Few white men know it, but they have already opened a second front in America – a front to the liberation of the dark races.


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Ellen Welles Page A Flapper's Appeal to Parents | Flapper Magazine Article Outlook magazine December 6 1922
1922, Flappers, Outlook Magazine, Recent Articles

‘A Flapper’s Appeal to Parents” (The Outlook, 1922)

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If one judges by appearances, I suppose I am a flapper. I am within the age limit, I wear bobbed hair, the badge of flapperhood. I powder my nose. I wear fringed skirts and bright colored sweaters, and scarves and waists with Peter Pan collars and low-heeled ‘finale hopper’ shoes. I adore to dance… But then there are many degrees of a flapper. There is the semi-flapper, the flapper, the super-flapper. Each of these three main general divisions has its degrees of variation. I might possibly be placed somewhere in the middle of the first class.

1940s National Press Club Hub of Washington Journalism | 1940s National Press Club History
1943, Click Magazine, Recent Articles, War Correspondents

The National Press Club During the War (Click Magazine, 1943)

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Throughout the decades, Washington, D.C. has had more than its fair share of private clubs for journalists – but they all failed for the same reason: each one of them granted credit to their members at the bar. It was not until 1908 that someone got it right – The National Press Club insisted that each ink-slinger pay-as-they-go. As a result, this club has been able to keep their doors open for well over one hundred years. This well-illustrated article explains what an important role the club played during the war years.


-recommended reading:
Drunk Before Noon: The Behind-The-Scenes Story of the Washington Press Corps

Bill Mauldin Of The Stars & Stripes (Yank Magazine, 1945)
1945, War Correspondents, Yank Magazine

Bill Mauldin Of The Stars & Stripes (Yank Magazine, 1945)

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No other cartoonist during the Second World War ever portrayed the American GI so knowingly and with more sympathy than the Stars & Stripes cartoonist Sgt. Bill Mauldin (1921 – 2003), who was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartoons in 1945.


Mauldin wrote the attached essay at the end of the war and gave the Yank Magazine readers an earful regarding his understanding of the front, the rear and all the the blessed officers in between


Click here to read a wartime interview with another popular 1940s American cartoonist: Milton Caniff.

Jim Crow Army 1940 | Racial Discrimination in the US Military 1940 | WW2 Conscription and Racial Segregation in the USA
1940, African-American Service, PM Tabloid, Recent Articles

Jim Crow and the Draft (PM Tabloid, 1940)

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Wishing to avoid some of the taint of racism that characterized the American military during the First World war, Republican Senator William Barbour (1888 – 1943) announced that he intended to introduce an amendment to the 1940 conscription legislation that would open all branches of the U.S. Military to everyone regardless of skin color. The article goes on to list all the various branches that practiced racial discrimination.

Winter Combat Eastern Front 1942
1942, Eastern Front, PM Tabloid, Recent Articles

Fighting in Winter (PM Tabloid, 1942)

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Within a few weeks, Winter again will be sweeping down on the greatest battlefield in history… At Leningrad, the Fall rains are almost over. Now comes a month of dangerously dry, clear weather and then the snow. The Moscow zone will be thickly carpeted in white in seven or eight weeks. Allied strategists hope that the second Russian war Winter will bring a repition of the first, when Soviet skill in cold weather fighting finally drove the Nazis back.

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