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There was Illegal Immigration from Mexico Back Then, Too (Ken Magazine, 1938)
1938, Agricultural Labor, Ken Magazine, Recent Articles

There was Illegal Immigration from Mexico Back Then, Too
(Ken Magazine, 1938)

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This 1938 magazine article can be filed in the the more things change, the more they stay the same folder. It lists all the assorted means by which Mexicans have attempted to illegally cross over the Southern border, whether to smuggle others, import illegal drugs or for their own gratification.


Marijuana was becoming a problem in 1938, too. Read about it here.


Click here to read about the U.S. Border Patrol.

1950s TEXAS | Texas Magazine Travel Article | Don Eddy Magazine Article
1952, Miscellaneous, The American Magazine

1950s Texas
(American Magazine, 1952)

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Lost in wide-eyed wonder, this journalist reported all that he saw during his four-month journey through The Lone Star State, finding, to his astonishment, that everything those annoying men named Tex had told him throughout the years was absolutely true.

Don’t be offended if Texans fail to thank you for compliments about their state; they are weaned on a sublime conviction that everything in Texas is the biggest or best or both… Anything in Texas that isn’t the biggest or best is bound to be the smallest or the worst; there is no mediocrity.


Click here to read about the U.S. Border Patrol in Texas.

Mr. Kinsey's Report (Pathfinder Magazine, 1948)
1948, Miscellaneous, Pathfinder Magazine, Recent Articles

Mr. Kinsey’s Report
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1948)

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Although much of what Dr. Alfred Kinsey wrote concerning male sex patterns has been debunked in our own age, his conclusions were taken quite seriously in the late Forties and early Fifties. This slender column serves as a summary and review regarding his studies that were published in his 1948 book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948).


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The Era of Naval Aviation WW2 | Aircraft Carrier Engagements 1942
1942, PM Tabloid, Recent Articles, War at Sea

A New Kind of Naval Warfare
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

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In the seven months since Pearl Harbor the aircraft carrier has replaced the battleship as the true capital ship of modern naval warfare. The carrier’s rise to power reached a crushing climax in the battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway – the two most decisive naval engagements of the war thus far. Opposing fleets only struck at each other with bomber and torpedo planes and never fired a shot except in self-defense against aircraft.

Dalton Trumbo Brings on the Storm(Rob Wagner's Script Magazine, 1946)
1946, Blacklisting, Recent Articles, Rob Wagner's Script Magazine

Dalton Trumbo Brings on the Storm
(Rob Wagner’s Script Magazine, 1946)

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Blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (1905 – 1976) did not do himself any favors when he wrote the attached essay outlining his sympathies for Stalin’s Soviet Union at the expense of the United States. A year later he would find himself in the hot-seat in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee (1938 – 1975) where his non-cooperation landed him eleven months in the hoosegow on contempt of Congress charges.


In 1887 the New York Times reviewed the first English edition of Das Kapital by Karl Marx, click here to read it…

Dalton Trumbo Brings on the Storm(Rob Wagner's Script Magazine, 1946)
1946, Blacklisting, Recent Articles, Rob Wagner's Script Magazine

Dalton Trumbo Brings on the Storm(Rob Wagner’s Script Magazine, 1946)

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Blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (1905 – 1976) did not do himself any favors when he wrote the attached essay outlining his sympathies for Stalin’s Soviet Union at the expense of the United States. A year later he would find himself in the hot-seat in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee (1938 – 1975) where his non-cooperation landed him eleven months in the hoosegow on contempt of Congress charges.


In 1887 the New York Times reviewed the first English edition of Das Kapital by Karl Marx, click here to read it…

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'I'm No Communist'' (Photoplay Magazine, 1948)
1948, Blacklisting, Photoplay Magazine

‘I’m No Communist”
(Photoplay Magazine, 1948)

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Months after his appearance as a spectator at the House Committee on Un-American Activities, actor Humphrey Bogart wrote this article for the editors of Photoplay Magazine addressing the topic of communist infiltration in the Hollywood film industry:

In the final analysis, this House Committee probe has had one salutary effect. It has cleared the air by indicating what a minute number of Commies there really are in the film industry. Though headlines may have screamed of the Red menace in the movies, all the wind and the fury actually proved that there’s been no Communism injected on American movie screens.

Removing God from the Public Schools | Creating Secular Public Schools 1945 | McCollum v. Board of Education
1945, Education, Newsweek, PM Tabloid, Recent Articles

Kicking God Out of the Schools
(Newsweek Magazine & PM Tabloid, 1945)

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A religion-in-the-schools trial, held last week in the Champaign, Illinois Circuit Court, will probably make history. The plaintiff was Mrs. Vashti McCollum, 32, pert, wide-eyed wife of a University of Illinois professor, demanding that the Champaign School Board discontinue a five-year program of religious instruction in school buildings, on the ground that the constitutional separation of church and state is jeopardized.


Posted herein was one of the first of many articles concerning what would come to known as the landmark Supreme Court case McCollum v. Board of Education (1948): the court decided in her favor.


Click here to read about Darwin in the schools.

Orson Welles Magazine Article 1941 | Orson Welles in the 1940s
1941, Direction Magazine, Interviews: 1912 - 1960

The Wunderkind: Orson Welles
(Direction Magazine, 1941)

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his brief notice is from a much admired American magazine containing many sweet words regarding the unstoppable Orson Welles (1915 – 1985) and his appearance in the Archibald McLeish (1892 – 1982) play, Panic (directed by John Houseman, 1902 — 1988).

The year 1941, Ano Domini, was another great year for the boy genius who seemed to effortlessly triumph with all his theatrical and film ventures. At the time this appeared in print, Welles was filming The Magnificent Ambersons, having recently pocketed an Oscar for his collaborative writing efforts in Citizen Cane. Highly accomplished and multi-married, no study of American entertainment is complete without mention of his name. The anonymous scribe who penned the attached article remarked:

No pretentiously shy Saroyan courtship of an audience about Welles! He really loves his relation to the public. He doesn’t flirt with it.

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Political Advertising Article | The Selling of the President Summary and Review | Political Advertising on Television
1970, Advertising, Pageant Magazine, Recent Articles

Modern Political Advertising
(Pageant Magazine, 1970)

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The Selling of the President is about the role of television in the Republican efforts to elect Richard Nixon president in the 1968 election. Written over forty years ago by Joe McGinnis (1942 – 2014), the book was an instant classic as it addressed the matter of packaging a candidate for a political contest in the same manner products are promoted for the marketplace:


McGinnis concludes that ‘On television, it matters less that [the candidate] does not have ideas. His personality is what the viewers want to share…’

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LITTLE BELOW THE KNEE CLUB 1948 | Popular Opposition to CHRISTIAN DIOR NEW LOOK
1948, Recent Articles, See Magazine, The New Look

Jihad Against ‘The New Look’
(See Magazine, 1948)

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A former fashion model, Bobbie Woodward, was outraged when she awoke that morning in 1947 to find that the hidden hairy hand that decides which direction the fashion winds will blow had given the nod to some snail-eating Frenchman who stood athwart fashion’s unspoken promise to continue the skirt hem’s march ever-upward. Wasting no time, she quickly marshaled other equally inclined women and formed The Little Below the Knee Clubs, which spread to forty-eight states (as well as Canada) in order to let the fashion establishment know that they would not be forced into wearing this fashion juggernaut known as The New Look.


The attached SEE MAGAZINE article serves as a photo-essay documenting the collective outrage of these women and their doomed crusade against Christian Dior.

One 1947 fashion critic believed that the New Look suffered from a split personality. Click here to read her review.

The King Tiger Tank (U.S. Dept. of War, 1945)
1945, Compiled by the U.S. Dept. of War, Recent Articles, Weapons and Inventions

The King Tiger Tank
(U.S. Dept. of War, 1945)

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This article is illustrated with a photograph of the King Tiger tank and accompanied by some vital statistics and assorted observations that were documented by the U.S. Department of War and printed in one of their manuals in March of 1945:

The king Tiger is a tank designed essentially for defensive warfare or for breaking through strong lines of defense. It is unsuitable for rapid maneuver and highly mobile warfare because of its great weight and and low speed…The King Tiger virtually is invulnerable to frontal attack, but the flanks, which are less well protected, can be penetrated by Allied antitank weapons at most normal combat ranges.

The American answer to the Tiger was the M26 Pershing Tank; read about it here.

If you wish to read about the only German tank of World War I, click here.

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Japanese-Americans in Manzanar Relocation Camp 1942 | Japanese-Americans Removed from Los Angeles 1942 | Japanese-Americans Farmers Interred at Manzanar 1942
1942, Japanese-American Internment, Recent Articles, The American Magazine

The Outcast Americans
(American Magazine, 1942)

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Economically, the departure of the [Japanese-Americans] presented no particular problem in the cities… But it was different in the country. [They] had owned or controlled 11,030 farms valued at $70,000,000. They had produced virtually all the artichokes, early cantaloupes, green peppers and late tomatoes, and most of the early asparagus. They owned or controlled the majority of wholesale produce markets and thousand of retail vegetable stands. When they disappeared, the flow of vegetables stopped. Retail prices went up. Many vegetables vanished entirely. There were rumors of a food shortage.

A Veteran Against War (Rob Wagner's Script Magazine, 1938)
1938, Recent Articles, Rob Wagner's Script Magazine, Writing

A Veteran Against War
(Rob Wagner’s Script Magazine, 1938)

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Writer Paul Gerard Smith (1894 – 1968) was a U.S. Marine in World War I and in 1938, when he saw that another war with Germany was simmering on the the front burner he put a Fresh ribbon of ink in the typewriter and wrote this editorial which he titled, An Open Letter to Boys of Military Age. His column is a cautionary tale advising the young men of his day to make their decisions thoughtfully before committing themselves to such a dangerous undertaking as war. Smith advised youth to examine the causes for the war, verify whose commercial interests will be served in victory and only if –


you find that America and the future of America is threatened – then go and kick Hell of the enemy, and God be with you.


Click here to read an article about the German veterans of W.W. I.


CLICK HERE… to read one man’s account of his struggle with shell shock…

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