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Political Crisis in Post-World War I Germany | German Revolution August 1919 | German Revolution Newspaper Article 1919
1919, Aftermath (WWI), Current Opinion Magazine

The Political Crisis in Post-War Germany
(Current Opinion Magazine, 1919)

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The Current Opinion foreign correspondent filed this short dispatch about the pandemonium unfolding in post-World War I Germany:

The great fact to the outside world is that a German parliament has actually precipitated a crisis. It threw out the Scheidemann cabinet. It presided over the birth of a Bauer one. It was the German parliament which dictated to the government regarding its composition, instead of meekly obeying the government, as had been the custom…


More about leftists in Weimar Germany can be read here.

1920, Draft Dodgers, Recent Articles, The American Legion Weekly

Crack of Doom for the Draft Dodgers
(American Legion Weekly, 1920)

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Doomsday looms just over the horizon for the draft deserters. That wily gentleman who hid behind a tree and chuckled as his neighbor shouldered a gun and marched off to battle is soon to have that chuckle mopped off his face. He will find that no tree vegetates enough to cover from shame the miserable carcass of his manhood…According to the latest reports, 173,911 is the maximum number of draft registrants chargeable with willful desertion.

Taro Yashima Refugee Artist from Japanese Fascism 1940 | 八島 太郎 | Japanese Emigrants to the United States
1944, Direction Magazine, Japanese Home Front

Taro Yashima
(Direction Magazine, 1944)

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Many are the names of the refugee-artists who fled Hitler’s Germany for the United States – but few are the Japanese artists we remember who departed fascist Japan for America. This slim article tells the story of Taro Yashima (born Atsushi Iwamatsu, 1908 – 1994) who was brutalized by the militarists in his homeland and fled in 1939.

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1950s Soviet Cold War Cartoons | Anti-American Propaganda Cold War Cartoons | Old Soviet Cartoons
1952, Pathfinder Magazine, Recent Articles, The Cold War

Stalin’s ‘Hate-America’ Campaign
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1952)

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In 1952 the Soviet hierarchy began publishing an enormous amount of anti-American cartoons in magazines and newspapers throughout the worker’s paradise. As you will see, the Red cartoonists of yore were really big on comparing Americans to bugs and Nazis; they also delighted in making all American senior officers resemble the obese General Walker, who was the American corps commander leading the U.N. Forces in Korea.


The Soviets were very clever in the way in which they used radio to manipulate their people, click here to read about that…

Color Television: Hand Maiden to Art... (Art Digest, 1945)
Early Television, Recent Articles, The Art Digest

Color Television: Hand Maiden to Art…
(Art Digest, 1945)

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Attached you will read a 1945 editorial written by the art critic Clayton Boswell, who articulately expressed the great hope that the art world had emotionally invested in color television:

This is what the art world has been waiting for – in the meantime struggling with the futility of attempting to describe verbally visual objects over the air. Now art on the television will be on par footing with music. And what radio has done in spreading the appreciation of good music will be duplicated with fine art…Then indeed will Andrew Carnegie’s dream of progress through education come true.

1920s Poverty in Germany | 1923 Time Magazine Article About German Starvation
1923, Aftermath (WWI), Time Magazines

The Emaciated Germans
(Time Magazines, 1923)

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Fresh from his trip through post-war Europe, U.S. Senator Robert La Follette (1855 – 1925) declared:

The Germans have been underfed for seven years. They are suffering for want of food, fuel and clothing. Young children and old people are dying from hunger and disease induced by hunger. Emaciated, despairing, they are waiting the end.

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Illegal For Women To Stand At Bars | NY State Legislation
1937, Pathfinder Magazine, Recent Articles, Women's Suffrage

Inequality For Female Barflies
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1937)

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This column concerns a 1937 bill sponsored by New York State Senator Edward Coughlin. The senator’s bill provided for the arrest of any woman who stood at or in front of the bar of any club, hotel or restaurant licensed to sell alcoholic beverages. Coughlin held that any woman found guilty of this pastime should be charged with disorderly conduct. A few other states were also attracted to this legislation; it passed a year later only to be repealed in the early Sixties.


Click here to read about that moment in 1920 when American Women attained the vote.

Post-War Germany Struggled Under the Versailles Treaty (The Independent, 1921)
1921, Aftermath (WWI), Recent Articles, The Independent

Post-War Germany Struggled Under the Versailles Treaty
(The Independent, 1921)

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A 1921 column that clearly pointed out all the hardships created for Germany as a result of the Versailles Treaty.


The framers of that agreement could never have envisioned that the post-war landscape they designed for Germany would be pock-marked with such a myriad of frustrations – such as the border skirmishes between Germany and Poland, inflation, famine, the Salzburg Plebiscite and such harsh reparation payments that, when combined with all the other afflictions, simply served to create the kind of Germany that made Hitler’s rise a reality.


Another article about the despondency in 1920s Germany can be read here…

Charlie Chaplin Biography by Theodore Huff 1951 | Charlie Chaplin Primary Source | Mabel Normand on Charlie Chaplin
1951, Charlie Chaplin Articles, The New Leader Magazine

Charlie Chaplin Bio
(New Leader Magazine, 1951)

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Here is an interesting review of Charlie Chaplin, a 1951 biography:

The acting of Charlie Chaplin has enriched our lives; it has become part of our experience. Regardless of how his casual and unserious politics are interpreted, irrespective of what attitude is taken toward newspaper stories of his private life, his films have demonstrably healthy influence on audiences. All one needs to do to prove this is to sit in a theater and listen to the genuine laughter which Chaplin evokes.

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Talkies in Hollywood History | Struggling Actresses in Early Hollywood
1929, Hollywood Magazine, Recent Articles, Talkies 1930

‘STAY HOME!”
(Hollywood Magazine, 1929)

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The advent of talking pictures has enormously increased the number of those who vision a fairyland of fame and fortune if they can only reach Hollywood… Rumor had it that voice was important for the new Talkies, and every female whose misguided family had ‘cultivated’ Mamie’s vocal resources, usually without the faintest reasonable excuse, realized where her destiny lay. The rush was on… Several organizations in Hollywood find it possible to send girls back home before the tragedy point is reached… Periodically the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce broadcasts warnings.

German Secret Army 1922 | Reichswehr Violations 1922-23
1923, Punch Magazine, Versailles Treaty

Fears of German Treaty Violations
(Punch, 1922 and Time, 1923)

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These articles makes it clear that Clemanceau and Churchill were not the only ones who feared German duplicty in regards to the rearmament clause. Written a year apart are these two columns from Time and Punch insisting that the German Reichswehr had numerous weapons that were banned under the Versailles Treaty:

My attention had often been called to persistent rumors regarding Germany’s secret army. Whispers had reached me from quite reliable sources of over a million Teuton soldiers, well-officered and disciplined…


Click here if you would like to read about the 1936 Versailles Treaty violations.

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Mabel Walker Willebrandt Takes On Prohibition (Collier's Magazine, 1924)
1924, Collier's Magazine, Prohibition History

Mabel Walker Willebrandt Takes On Prohibition
(Collier’s Magazine, 1924)

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An article about Mabel Willebrandt (1889 – 1963), the Assistant Attorney General of the United States between the years 1921 through 1929, her tremendous successes in the past and her ambitions to hold fast in the enforcement of the Volstead Act:

‘Give me the authority and let me have my pick of 300 men and I’ll make this country as dry as it is humanly possible to get it,’ she said without the slightest trace of braggadocio. ‘There’s one way it can be done: get at the source of supply. I know them, I have no patience with this policy of going after the hip-pocket and speakeasy cases. That’s like trying to dry up the Atlantic ocean with a blotter.’

When Mrs. Willebrandt stepped down some seven years after this article went to press, she questioned the willingness of the nation’s law enforcement agencies to see the job through.

Fatty Arbuckle Has Something to Say... (Motion Picture News, 1919)
1919, Motion Picture Magazine, Recent Articles, Silent Movie History

Fatty Arbuckle Has Something to Say…
(Motion Picture News, 1919)

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An interview with the famous silent film comedian, Fatty Arbuckle, as it appeared in a forgotten Hollywood trade magazine. Accompanying the interview are eight lines of biographical information pertaining to his Hollywood career as it stood in the year 1916. This short profile first appeared in The Studio Directory of The Motion Picture News and will serve to answer some of the questions readers might have concerning his career, before it took it’s tragic turn.


If you would like to read about the films of the Thirties, click here.
Click here to read about physical perfection during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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The Crown Prince in Exile (Literary Digest, 1919)
1919, European Royalty, Recent Articles, The Literary Digest

The Crown Prince in Exile
(Literary Digest, 1919)

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In this interview the Kaiser’s son and fellow exile, Crown Prince Wilhelm (1882-1951, a.k.a. The Butcher of Verdun), catalogs his many discomforts as a refugee in Holland. At this point in his life the former heir apparent was dictating his memoir and following closely the goings-on at Versailles.


Click here to read what Kaiser Wilhelm II thought of Adolf Hitler.

Cover Girls (Coronet Magazine, 1948)
1940s Modeling, 1948, Coronet Magazine, Recent Articles

Cover Girls
(Coronet Magazine, 1948)

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By 1948 the business of fashion modeling had developed into a $15,000,000-a-year industry. This article examines just how such changes evolved in just a ten year span of time:

American advertising struck pay dirt when it discovered the super salesgirls whose irresistible allure will sell anything from a bar of soap to a seagoing yacht…Always there was the secret whisper of sex. For women it was, ‘Be lovely, be loved, don’t grow old, be exciting’… For men it was, ‘Be successful, make everyone know that your successful, how can you get women if your not successful?’

The importance of attractive girls in our economy was stressed by John McPartland when he discussed modern advertising in his recent best seller, Sex in Our Changing World (1947).


Legendary fashion designer Christian Dior had a good deal of trouble with people who would illegally copy his designs; click here to read about that part of fashion history.

The Popularity of Italian Fascism 1923 | 1920s Italian History | 1923 Mussolini in Rome
1923, Benito Mussolini, Recent Articles, Time Magazine

Fascism At It’s Peak
(Time Magazine, 1923)

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A dictatorship can last forever, if properly managed. It is my task to provide a mechanism that will endure and to have the various parts of this mechanism running without friction; then after I am gone it will be able to run itself. A dictatorship must answer the purpose for which it was introduced. Certainly the Fascist regime will last a very long time… Socialism works on the principle that all are equal, but Fascism knows we are far from equal. Take the great masses of human beings. They like rule by the few.

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