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The Fascisti (Current Opinion, 1921)
1921, Benito Mussolini, Current Opinion Magazine, Recent Articles

The Fascisti
(Current Opinion, 1921)

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A tight little essay that clarifies the force behind Italian fascism. This was an editorial penned by Dr. Frank Crane, a pastor who appeared regularly in the pages of CURRENT OPINION.

The Fascisti is a name given to a political party in Italy. Political parties, and indeed almost all organizations, as has often been pointed out, hold together and get their strength by hating something. The Fascisti hate the Bolshevists, Communists and the like.


Click here to read about those who resisted Mussolini.

Russia's Women Soldiers of W.W. I (Literary Digest, 1917)
1917, Recent Articles, The Literary Digest, Women (WWI)

Russia’s Women Soldiers of W.W. I
(Literary Digest, 1917)

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The attached news article from 1917 reported on the a Russian combat unit that consisted entirely of women soldiers called The Battalion of Death:

The courage of the Battalion of Death when the actual test came is the subject of many enthusiastic Petrograd dispatches. They behaved splendidly under fire, penetrating into a first-line trench of the Germans and brought back prisoners.

The James Agee Review of It's a Wonderful Life (The Nation, 1947)
1947, It's A Wonderful Life, The Nation Magazine

The James Agee Review of It’s a Wonderful Life
(The Nation, 1947)

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James Agee, the film reviewer for The Nation (1942 – 1948), was charmed by the warmth of It’s a Wonderful Life
and believed that it was an admirable and well-crafted piece of film making; he nonetheless came away feeling like he’d been sold a bill of goods and rejected the movie primarily because he believed that films created in the Atomic Age should reflect the pessimism that created the era.

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Inventor C Francis Jenkins Magazine Article 1921
1921, Recent Articles, Silent Movie History, The Literary Digest

He Made the Pictures Move
(The Literary Digest, 1921)

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Ten million people a day go to the movies in the United States, but how many of them know who made the first movie? The Noes have it. The man who made the first motion-picture, as we know it today, is C. Francis Jenkins (1867 – 1934). Many [actresses] who have not been ‘in pictures’ a month are better known.


C. Francis Jenkins was also one of the brainiacs who contributed his talent to the invention of television.

Down With Christian Dior and His ''New Look''! (Rob Wagner's Script, 1947)
1947, Recent Articles, Script Magazine, The New Look

Down With Christian Dior and His ”New Look”!
(Rob Wagner’s Script, 1947)

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The California fashion critic who penned this article believed that the fashions of Christian Dior stood firmly in opposition to the optimistic, Twentieth Century casual elegance of Claire McCardell (1905 – 1958) and Adrian (1903 – 1959). She could not bare Dior, with his vulgar penchant to spin

the feminine figure in the unconventional manner, trying to make her look good where she ain’t. He seeks the ballet dancer illusion – natural, rounded shoulders, too weak to support a struggling world…Her waist is pinched in an exaggerated indentation, the better to emphasize her padded hips…There are butterfly sleeves, box pockets, belled jackets, and barreled skirts, suggesting something like a Gibson girl, or whatever grandmother should have worn.


Click here to read a 1961 article about Jacqueline Kennedy’s influence on American fashion.

Irving Thalberg During the Silent Film Era | 1924 Irving Thalberg Article
1924, Collier's Magazine, Silent Movie History

Irving Thalberg: Hollywood’s Boy Wonder
(Collier’s Magazine, 1924)

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An article covering the early career of twenty five year-old Irving Thalberg (1899 – 1936): legendary Hollywood executive and movie producer, whose natural abilities in the Dream Factory catapulted his meteoric rise to greater power, leaving a long string of hits and well-admired film productions in his wake before pneumonia got the better of him twelve years after this article went to press.

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Biggest Investor in World War I | Financing the First World War
1921, Recent Articles, The Literary Digest, World War One

The Biggest Investor In The War
(The Literary Digest, 1921)

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Here is an article that deals with the money aspect of the First World War. Illustrated with two tables, the journalist explains that the United States laid out far more money than any of the combatant nations. Albeit the funds extended were in the form of loans to the Entente powers rather than the creation of their own military, in the end the U.S. ended up being the one nation that invested the most in the war.

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'Deutschland Unter Alles'' (Current Opinion Magazine, 1921)
1921, Aftermath (WWI), Current Opinion Magazine

‘Deutschland Unter Alles”
(Current Opinion Magazine, 1921)

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This is a brief editorial from 1921 that pointed out how amazing and promising pre-war Germany once was and then remarks how far off the mark the nation had fallen since the war ended:


• Her empire dismantled.


• Occupied by alien armies.


• Worthless currency.


• Widespread despair.


Click here to read about Anti-Semitism in W.W. I Germany.


Click here to read what the Kaiser thought of Adolf Hitler.


You might also want to read about the inflated currency of post W.W. I Germany.

'The Americans in the Argonne Won the War'' (You Can't Print That, 1929)
1929, Doughboys, Recent Articles

‘The Americans in the Argonne Won the War”
(You Can’t Print That, 1929)

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Here is a segment of the famous interview with General Paul von Hindenburg that was conducted just days after the close of hostilities in which the journalist George Seldes (1890 – 1995) posed the question as to which of the Allied Armies played the most decisive roll in defeating Germany; whereupon the General responded:


The American infantry in the Argonne won the war.


Read on…


Click here to read about sexually transmitted diseases among the American soldiers of the First World War…

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'The Americans in the Argonne Won the War'' (You Can't Print That, 1929)
1929, Doughboys, Recent Articles

‘The Americans in the Argonne Won the War”
(You Can’t Print That, 1929)

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Here is a segment of the famous interview with General Paul von Hindenburg that was conducted just days after the close of hostilities in which the journalist George Seldes (1890 – 1995) posed the question as to which of the Allied Armies played the most decisive roll in defeating Germany; whereupon the General responded:


The American infantry in the Argonne won the war.


Read on…


Click here to read about sexually transmitted diseases among the American soldiers of the First World War…

1929, Doughboys, Recent Articles

‘The Americans in the Argonne Won the War”
(You Can’t Print That, 1929)

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Here is a segment of the famous interview with General Paul von Hindenburg that was conducted just days after the close of hostilities in which the journalist George Seldes (1890 – 1995) posed the question as to which of the Allied Armies played the most decisive roll in defeating Germany; whereupon the General responded:


The American infantry in the Argonne won the war.


Read on…


Click here to read about sexually transmitted diseases among the American soldiers of the First World War…

Ezra Pound Treason | Ezra Pound Traitor | Ezra Pound Anti-Semite
1951, American Traitors, The New Leader Magazine

Ezra Pound of Indiana
(Click Magazine, 1942)

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Click Magazine‘s illustrated article about the sedition of American poet Ezra Pound is peppered throughout with assorted quotes that clearly indicate the man’s guilt. The reporter, David Brown, went to some length in explaining what an odd life decision this was for a poet with such a celebrated past – a decisions that ultimately lead to his conviction in Federal Court, followed by his twelve year incarceration in a mad house.


In an effort to understand Pound’s thinking, we have included excerpts from a Wall Street Journal book review of a 2016 Pound biography that presents the poets queer rationale.

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'The Grapes of Wrath'' (Click Magazine, 1940)
1940, Click Magazine, Hollywood History, Recent Articles

‘The Grapes of Wrath”
(Click Magazine, 1940)

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The attached article is illustrated with three color photos from the set of the movie, this short article details why The Grapes of Wrath (Twentieth Century Fox, 1940) was such a different movie to come out of Hollywood and explains how thoroughly both the art and costume departments were in their research in depicting the migrant Okies in their Westward flight:

Realism, keynote of the book, was the keynote of the picture. Henry Fonda, who plays Tom Joad, lived for weeks among the Okie farmers from Oklahoma to understand their problems…

As a result of Steinbeck’s literary efforts, medical aid was offered to California’s migrants – Click here to read about it


Click here to read a 1935 article about the real Okies.


Perhaps Steinbeck saw this 1938 photo-essay while writing his novel?

John Steinbeck became a war correspondent in 1943.

Young William Powell Magazine Article | William Powell Bio
1930, Hollywood History, Photoplay Magazine

‘I Remember William Powell”
(Photoplay Magazine, 1930)

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A magazine article by Leonora Ross in which she recalled her high school days with one of Kansas City’s most famous sons, actor William Powell (1892 – 1984). At the time this article appeared, Powell had some forty-two films to his credit (37 of them silent) with his best work yet to come.

If you would like to read more articles from Photoplay Magazine, click here.


CLICK HERE to read about Powell’s most famous film: The Thin Man…

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