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The Rise of Oral Roberts (Coronet Magazine, 1955)
1955, Coronet Magazine, Faith, Recent Articles

The Rise of Oral Roberts
(Coronet Magazine, 1955)

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The editors at Coronet recognized that Oral Roberts was not your average minister, who was simply contented to preside over thirty full pews every week; they labeled him a businessman-preacher and subtly pointed out that the man’s detractors were many and his flashy attire unseemly for a member of clergy:


God doesn’t run a breadline…I make no apology for buying the best we can afford. The old idea that religious people should be poor is nonsense.

Paul Laurence Dunbar NY TIMES ARTICLE 1897 | Review of Lyrics of Lowly Life by Paul Laurence Dunbar 1897 | Literary Editor William Dean Howells on Paul Dunbar
1897, African-American History, Recent Articles, The New York Times

‘A Negro Poet”
(NY Times, 1897)

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Here is the NY Times review of Lyrics of Lowly Life (1897) by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 – 1906), who was a distinguished African-American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. If Helen had the face that launched a thousand ships, then Dunbar had the poetry to launch at least twenty thousand schools – for it seems that is about how many there are named for him.

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End of the Winter War April 1940
1940, Collier's Magazine, Recent Articles, The Winter War

‘What the Finns Won”
(Collier’s Magazine, 1940)

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We suppose debate will go on for years about whether the Finns or the Russians won their 105-day war of late 1939 and early 1940. We think the Finns won all the phases of the war except those included in the peace treaty – and that the treaty was a minor matter in the long view of it all…As for the predictions that the Russians will be coming back in six months or so to gobble up the rest of Finland – we may easily be wrong, but we can’t picture the Russians tackling the Finns again for another thirty years.

Unpopular Jackie Kennedy | Downfall of Jackie Kennedy | Jackie Kennedy Entitled Aristocrat
1967, Jackie, Pageant Magazine, Recent Articles

Hating Jackie Kennedy
(Pageant Magazine, 1967)

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By the mid-1960s many Americans began to tire of the fact that Jackie Kennedy would not play the roll that they believed suitable for the former first lady of a slain president. Her halo’s fading luster seemed to grow duller every day and it wasn’t long before she was generally perceived as the mean girl. Journalist Leslie Valentine reported that the trashing of Mrs. Kennedy became so widespread by 1967 that no social gathering was complete without someone pointing out her shortcomings.

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Innocence of Mrs Mary Surratt | The Case for Mrs Surratt by Helen Jones Campbell | Judicial Murder of Mary Surratt
1943, Civil War History, Newsweek, Recent Articles

Was Mrs. Surratt Innocent?
(Newsweek Magazine, 1943)

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Here is the book review for The Case For Mrs. Surrattstyle=border:none (1945) by Helen Jones Campbell. The review narrates how the landlady who had the misfortune of renting a room to the Lincoln conspirators soon found herself swept up in the pervasive Confederate hatred that enveloped the capital city following the assassination. In no time at all she sat among the plotters in a military tribunal where she was quickly judged guilty and sentenced to hang. The book is still in print.


More on the assassination can be read here

Movie Extras in 1930s Hollywood | Campbell MacCulloch General Manager of Central Casting Corporation
1935, Extras, Liberty Magazine, Recent Articles

DON’T BECOME AN EXTRA
(Liberty Magazine, 1935)

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If you were planning to use your time machine to travel back to 1935 so you could work as a Hollywood extra – you might want to read this article about what a bad hand was dealt to that crowd back in the day. It was written by Campbell MacCulloch, General Manager of the Central Casting Corporation – and he knew all about it:

In Hollywood dwell some ten or twelve thousand misguided folk who cling tenaciously to a couple of really fantastic illusions…

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Soviet Union Anti-Religion | Influence of Stepanoff Skvortsoff In USSR
1930, Commonwealth, Recent Articles, Soviet History

The First Atheist Government
(The Commonweal, 1930)

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Throughout much of the Twenties and Thirties the religious communities of the Western world looked at the nascent Soviet Union with some fascination: not only was it the first atheist government to be established, but it was the first government to be openly hostile to all religions alike.


An article about Chinese persecution of the Christian Church can be read here…


Click here to read about the Nazi assault on the German Protestant churches in 1935.

GI Jose WW II | WW2 Puerto Rican Soldiers
1944, Recent Articles, World War Two, Yank Magazine

An Army of Juan
(Yank Magazine, 1944)

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Some have said that America’s first introduction to Latin culture came with Ricky Ricardo; others say Carmen Miranda, Xavier Cugat, Charo or Chico and the Man. The dilettantes at OldMagazineArticles.com are not qualified to answer such deep questions, but we do know that for a bunch of unfortunate Nazis and their far-flung Japanese allies, their first brush with la vida loco Latino came in the form of Private Anibal Irizarry, Colonel Pedro del Valle and Lieutenant Manuel Vicente: three stout-hearted Puerto Ricans who distinguished themselves in combat and lived to tell about it.


In 1917 the U.S. Congress granted American citizenship rights to the citizens of Puerto Rico – but they didn’t move to New York until the Fifties. Click here to read about that…


Click here to read an article about Latinas in the WAACs.

German Occupied Channel Islands | Channel Islands Occupied by Germans
1945, World War Two, Yank Magazine

‘Occupied England”
(Yank Magazine, 1945)

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This Yank Magazine article, written just after the Channel Islands liberation, tells some of the stories of the Nazi occupation of Jersey and Guernsey Islands.

Before the war the English Channel Islands – long known as a vacation spot for the wealthy – were wonderful places to ‘get away from it all.’

Then the Germans came to the islands after Dunkirk, and for five years 100,000 subjects of his majesty the King were governed by 30,000 Nazi officers and their men.

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1930s Hollywood Movie Extras | History of Movie Extras | The Great Depression in Hollywood
1934, Extras, Photoplay Magazine

During the Depression Unskilled Labor Flocked to Hollywood
(Photoplay Magazine, 1934)

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Illustrated with the images of shanties and tents that once surrounded Universal Studios, this article tells the sad story of Hollywood movie extras and the challenging lives they led during the Great Depression:

Tossed out of other work by the recent depression, attracted by the false stories of Hollywood’s squanderings and extravagances, excited by the thrill of living and working in the same town and the same industry with world famous personalities, they drifted to Hollywood and attached themselves to the motion picture industry. They registered with the Central Casting Bureau, and joined the great army of extras.
These people saw no glitter, no romance, no bright mirage of stardom. To them, it was hard work and serious work…


From Amazon: Hollywood Unknowns: A History of Extras, Bit Players, and Stand-Insstyle=border:none

Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service Article 1943 | Helena Huntington Smith Article from Collier's Magazine 1943
1943, Collier's Magazine, Recent Articles, Spying

Listening-In On The Enemy
(Collier’s Magazine, 1943)

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The FBIS – short for Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service – is the organization that listens to the world’s radios for Uncle Sam. It’s monitoring station in Washington has, besides editors and annalists, some sixty fantastic linguists on its staff – people who are fluent at anywhere from three or four – up to a couple of dozen, languages apiece. Their job is to intercept and translate the shortwave broadcasts of Rome, Berlin, Vichy and a score of lesser stations, which daily pour out Axis propaganda in more languages than were ever spoken in the Tower of babel.

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Spiritual Warfare in WW II | American Bible Society During WW2
1942, Faith, Newsweek, Recent Articles

Spiritual Warfare
(Newsweek Magazine, 1942)

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For the believers in this world, it is very easy to see World War II as a spiritual conflict waged against the righteous by the evil forces of darkness. The atheist Nazis were truly having their way with the lukewarm Christians who filled the ranks of the European Armies – up until the arrival of a particular North American army whose motto is In God We Trust. Even to this day, the U.S. Military holds the record as having built more churches than any other institution (every base, fort and naval installation had one). This article reports that the U.S.Army did not simply deliver weaponry to our Chinese allies, they delivered millions of Bibles, too.

Benjamin B Hampton History of Hollywood Movies | Benjamin b Hampton History of Hollywood 1921
1921, Recent Articles, Silent Movie History, The Literary Digest

‘Movies & Myths As Seen by an Insider”
(Literary Digest, 1921)

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This writer, Banjamin B. Hampton (1875 – 1932), having heard so much hokum about Hollywood, decided to write an article about all he knew about the place – he was a film director and a producer, so he knew plenty. He was especially irked by the number of young women who arrived at the dream factory each month only to be bamboozled and find themselves on the street before too long.

Hollywood History

Unskilled Labor Descended on Hollywood
(Photoplay Magazine, 1934)

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With the unemployment level at an all-time high, many Americans heard that there were jobs to be had in Hollywood as movie extras; jobs that require one to simply walk back and forth, pantomime at a dinner table and wear nice costumes. With few other options available to them, thousands of people headed West only to find that there was very little work, sub-standard housing and too many sharks wishing to take advantage of them. This article tells their story and explains how FDR’s National Recovery Administration took it upon themselves to decide who could pursue this work and who could not.

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