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Public Relief for Young Men (Literary Digest, 1933)
1933, The Literary Digest, WPA

Public Relief for Young Men
(Literary Digest, 1933)

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During the Spring of 1933 articles like this one began to appear in the magazines and newspapers across the country serving to inform their readers about the creation of an additional Federal agency that was designed to help take some of the sting out of the Great Depression. Roosevelt’s New Deal intended to take a hefty percentage of unmarried young men off the streets of 16 American cities, feed them, clothe them and line their pockets with $30.00 a month for their labor. W.W. II created a host of other demands requiring Federal funding, and so Congress voted to dissolve the C.C.C. in 1942.


Click here to read about the end of the Great Depression…

Women Ruling the World | Feminine Governance
1918, Recent Articles, Vanity Fair Magazine, Women's Suffrage

‘When Women Rule”(Vanity Fair, 1918)

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Some well-chosen words by L.L. Jones, one of the many forgotten Suffragettes of yore, who looked longingly to new day:


So far as political equality is concerned I believe I could adjust myself quite readily to a society governed by United States presidentesses, State governesses, and city mayorines, alderwomen, chairwomen, directrices, senatresses, and congresswomen, and I believe I should be just as happy if clergywomen preached to me, doctrices prescribed for me, and policewomen helped me across the street, and chuffeuresses ran the taxis which on rare occasions I can afford to take.


Read a 1918 article about the women’s city.

Kaiser Wilhelm's Thoughts On Hitler (Ken Magazine, 1938)
1938, Adolf Hitler, Ken Magazine, Recent Articles

Kaiser Wilhelm’s Thoughts On Hitler
(Ken Magazine, 1938)

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For the sixth time in his life, Ken Magazine‘s far-flung correspondent, W. Burkhardt, found himself cast in the roll as guest of the deposed king of Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859 – 1941). After exchanging pleasantries, their conversation turned to weightier topics, such as contemporary German politics and it was at that time that Ken‘s man in Doorn recognized his moment:

Suddenly, sensing a chance I may never have again, I pose the question:

And yourself, Sire, what do you think of him?

Nichts!

Click here to read about the fall of Paris…

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US Currency During the Great Depression | 1935 Buying Power of the Dollar | Ed Myers Editorial 1935
1935, New Outlook Magazine, The Great Depression

‘The Forgotten Dollar”
(New Outlook Magazine, 1935)

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Along with the host of other forgotten items in this historic age of trouble, to be classed with Sumner’s forgotten man and Uncle Sam’s forgotten Constitution, is the forgotten dollar.

– so saith Edwin Myers of NEW OUTLOOK MAGAZINE. His gripe was typical of most Americans who struggled to get by during the Great Depression – but FDR was not neglectful of the dollar; one of his first acts was to make American exports more attractive abroad – and he devalued the dollar to this end. Much to his credit, exports did indeed increase – but the decreased purchasing power of the dollar domestically contributed to the misery of the American consumer.

Soak the Rich Tax Bill | Soak the Rich Origin | How much Did FDR Tax the Rich
1935, Pathfinder Magazine, Recent Articles, The Great Depression

‘Soak the Rich”
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1935)

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‘SOAK THE RICH!’ has been a popular slogan for generations. President Roosevelt knows the people and he knows that this cry is even more popular now than it ever was before. Taxes which increase the cost of living and hang so heavily on the poor cannot be popular… But pick some taxes that bear down on the rich and – and then you have something which everyone will hurrah for. The number of rich are comparatively few, and hence their votes and influence can be disregarded entirely.


President Roosevelt’s plan was to tax this minority for 75 percent of their income.


To read about the dwindling good fortune of the rich, click here…

The Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy (The Southern Rebellion, 1867)
1867, Abraham Lincoln, Recent Articles, The Southern Rebellion

The Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy
(The Southern Rebellion, 1867)

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These words concerning the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln were penned a couple of years after the event took place, for an 1867 history on the American Civil War. The author referred to a popular allegation that was a common among Northerners at the time:

It was alleged, and with some reason, that the plot was known to, and approved by, the Rebel government in Richmond, and that [Jefferson] Davis and some of his cabinet, and their agents in Canada, were accomplices in the crime. Whether this be so or not, certain it is that propositions to assassinate President Lincoln and other prominent members of the government were received and entertained by Davis and his associates, and were not rejected at once, and with the scorn which became civilized and Christian men.


– from Amazon: Day of the Assassins: A History of Political Murder


More on the assassination can be read here…

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'It was a Nice Depression'' (Scribner's Magazine, 1937)
1937, Recent Articles, Scribner's Magazine, The Great Depression

‘It was a Nice Depression”
(Scribner’s Magazine, 1937)

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I always knew that I would one day find a reminiscence of the Great Depression – what I didn’t expect is finding it in a magazine from 1937. As mentioned in another part of this site, 1937 saw some measure of economic recovery (until it didn’t) and this reminiscence was penned by a fellow who wanted so badly to believe that the whole thing was finally over. He wished so earnestly that the Depression had ended that he listed just what he was missing about it already. Little did he know he had three more years to go.

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Anti-Nazi German Prisoners of War | German POWs in USA
1946, POWs, The American Magazine

The Re-Education of German Prisoners of War
(The American Magazine, 1946)

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During the earliest days of 1944, the U.S. Army’s Special Projects Division of the Office of the Provost Marshal General was established in order to take on the enormous task of re-educating 360,000 German prisoners of war. Even before the Allies had landed in France it was clear to them that the Germans would soon be blitzkrieging back to the Fatherland and in order to make smooth the process of rebuilding that nation, a few Germans would be required who understood the virtues of democracy. In order to properly see the job through, two schools were set up at Fort Getty, Rhode Island and Fort Eustis, Virginia.

Carl Jung on Hitler | Psychiatric Diagnosis of Hitler by Carl Jung | Carl Jung on Hitler pdf
1942, Adolf Hitler, Omnibook Magazine, Recent Articles

Carl Jung on Hitler
(Omnibook Magazine, 1942)

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H.R. Knickerbocker (1898 – 1949), foreign correspondent for the Hearst papers, recalled a 1938 conversation he had with the noted Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung concerning Adolf Hitler and his broad appeal among the German people:

He is like a man who listens intently to a stream of suggestions in a whispered voice from a mysterious source, and then acts upon them… In our case, even if occasionally our unconscious does reach us in dreams, we have too much rationality to obey it – but Hitler listens and obeys.


Click here to read about the origins of Fascist thought…

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The Negro in the War' (NY Times, 1919)
1919, African-Americans, The New York Times

The Negro in the War’
(NY Times, 1919)

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Senegalese, Moroccans, Algerians, Americans – this six page article summarizes the participation of the various Allied units that were composed entirely of Black men throughout the four year course of W.W. I.

‘Black devils‘ the German soldiers called them, when, fighting like demons, they had forced the Kaiser’s shock troops to retreat before them.

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The First Fifty-Years Behind the Wheel (Pathfinder Magazine, 1952)
1952, Cars, Pathfinder Magazine, Recent Articles

The First Fifty-Years Behind the Wheel
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1952)

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There is no organization that has compiled more facts about cars and their impact on society, than The American Automobile Association – AAA for short. And why shouldn’t they? the AAA predates turn signals, starter buttons and stop lights. They were around before seat belts, parking lights and jay-walkers. They even predate car doors and windshields – to say nothing of their wipers. As you should all know by now, the AAA was not established as a car trivia repository but a coterie of motorists who banded together to aid other motorists.


Written in 1952, this article serves to mark the 50th anniversary of the AAA; these columns are positively packed with assorted automobile trivia which, when pieced together, spells out the first fifty years of the car in America.


Read about the Great Depression and the U.S. auto industry…

Women In Industrial Work During WW1 | Women Industrial Workers
1919, Recent Articles, Scribner's Magazine, Women (WWI)

Women Can Do The Heavy War Work
(Scribner’s Magazine, 1919)

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The essential facts are that women can do men’s heavy work with substantially equal output, without any disturbance of the particular industry, and, when guided by proper conditions, without detriment to their health. How far and how long they ought to do it in the emergency arising from the war is to be decided upon different grounds.


Click here to read about the women war workers of the Second World War.

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