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Labor Unions Under Hitler 1935 | National Socialist Union of Employers and Workers
1935, The Literary Digest, The Nazis

A Socialist Remedy for Nazi-Germany’s Labor Questions
(Literary Digest, 1935)

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A Socialist Workers’ Government has achieved a workers revolution in Germany without resorting to, though in some respects it approximates, Communism. Adolf Hitler has done it by wiping out all class privileges and class distinction, but the economics foundation of property rights and private capital has been left almost intact – for the present time.

The Third Reich, under Hitler, has wiped out corporate trade-unionism by forcing all workers to join one great government union, the National Socialist Union of Employers and Workers…


Eventually, unions were outlawed under Hitler.


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

Read an Article About the Socialist Aspects of Hitler’s Book, Mein Kampf.


Hitler’s economist admitted the German economy was socialist – more about that can be read here …

The Failures of W.W. I American Press Censorship (Collier's Magazine, 1941)
1941, Censorship, Collier's Magazine, Recent Articles

The Failures of W.W. I American Press Censorship
(Collier’s Magazine, 1941)

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Seven and a half months before the second installment of the War-to-End-All-Wars was to begin, George Creel (1876 – 1953), America’s first official censor from World War I, wrote this article for the editors of Collier’s Magazine explaining why he believed that censorship in an open society cannot work:

As many scars bear witness, I was the official censor during the World War. For two years I rode herd on the press, trying to enforce the concealment demanded by the Army and Navy.

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The March of Time: Newsreel Journalism (Film Daily, 1939)
1939, Film Daily Magazine, Newsreels

The March of Time: Newsreel Journalism
(Film Daily, 1939)

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The attached magazine article first appeared in the long-forgotten Hollywood trade rag Film Daily and concerns the 1930s newsreel production company The March of Time:

Since the beginning of the motion picture, the newsreel has been recognized as a vital medium of public information. Movie goers demand it. But, by the very nature of its technique and the swiftness with which it brings today’s events to the screen, the newsreel can give little more than headline news. And so it has created among movie-goers a desire to see more.

It was this desire ‘to see more’ that led the founders of ‘The March of Time’ to launch their new kind of pictorial journalism…The first issue appeared in some 400 theaters throughout the United States on February 1, 1935.

Newsreels at the Movies (Stage Magazine, 1936)
1936, Newsreels, Stage Magazine

Newsreels at the Movies
(Stage Magazine, 1936)

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The journalist who wrote this 1938 piece saw much good in theater newsreels, believing that the newsreel encourages a keener sense of the present and imprisons it for history. He doesn’t refer to any of the prominent newsreel production houses of the day, such as Fox Movietone, Hearst Metrotone, Warner-Pathe or News of the Day but rather prefers instead to wax poetic about the general good that newsreels perform and the services rendered. This newsreel advocate presented the reader with a long, amusing list of kings, dictators and presidents and what they thought of having their images recorded.


Click here to read articles about Marilyn Monroe.

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What was Yank Magazine? (Coronet Magazine, 1944)
1944, Coronet Magazine, Magazines

What was Yank Magazine?
(Coronet Magazine, 1944)

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Inasmuch as OldMagazineArticles.com is devoted to archiving the articles from the olde Yank, we are also keen on posting article about the magazine and its editorial policies, for few periodicals said as much about that generation and their lot in the Forties better than Yank. Attached is a photo essay from Coronet Magazine, illustrated with some 23 images, that tell the tale of how that weekly operated.


When W.W. II came to a close Yank Magazine was no more, this article was written –

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Alternative Lyrics for the National Anthem (Pathfinder, 1941)
1941, Americana, Pathfinder Magazine, Recent Articles

Alternative Lyrics for the National Anthem
(Pathfinder, 1941)

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Do you fail to recall the words to our national anthem time and again? You’re not alone – a quick glance at Google’s records indicate that in the silence of their rooms, thousands of your fellow Americans suffer from the same malady (and smirk at others who make their memory loss public). To say that the Americans of today are not as patriotic as they used to be is an understatement to be sure – but some of you will no doubt be relieved to know that the Americans of yore, vintage 1941, didn’t know the lyrics to The Star Spangled Banner any better than we do – as you can tell by the attached verses which were penned over seventy years ago about his fellow Americans and their inability to keep the words of Francis Scott Key in their heads.

1940 Congress Approves Military Build-Up
1940, PM Tabloid

Congress Approved $5,000,000,000 Build-Up
(PM Tabloid, 1940)

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To fulfill the [Pentagon’s requirements] the President plans to send Congress one more defense message asking for another $5,000,000,000. After that, with machine industries saturated with orders, Congress can sit back and survey the defense picture – provided England doesn’t collapse overnight… Acting Secretary of the Navy Compton announced yesterday the award of contracts for three aircraft carriers and two cruisers to the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co….

Tony Randall Magazine Interview
1964, Hollywood History, Pageant Magazine, Recent Articles

Tony Randall: Movie Star
(Pageant Magazine,1964)

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In this early Sixties article, celebrity epistolarianne Cyndi Adams recalled her first two encounters with the man who would be Felix Unger:


‘I am definitely neurotic and psychotic,’ cheerily announced Tony Randall (1920 – 2004) the first time we met – ‘he’s an actor-comedian of remarkable skills…he unconsciously reflects, in the way he plays his rolls, so much of the neurotic age we live in…’.


The New York Times would pursue this point to a further degree in their 2004 obituary of the actor:

That’s the force Tony Randall embodied: he represented, in his neurotic grandeur, our national will to unhappiness. Or if not our will, at least our right, which in the 50’s we were only beginning to realize we could exercise.

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1920, Aftermath (WWI), Recent Articles, The Independent

Post-W.W. I Society and the New Spirit of the Twenties
(The Independent, 1920)

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In 1920 there were many articles celebrating the three-hundredth anniversary of the Puritan’s arrival on Cape Cod. This one writer decried the lack of enthusiasm that marked the modern age following the end of the Great War – a world that stood in contrast to the Pilgrim spirit. Religious faith, patriotism, and the belief in human progress had all been called into question by the mass carnage experienced during the war. Shell shocked and traumatized, the world seemed different: the old order had collapsed, replaced by an age of machines. The author of this column, Preston Slosson, was one of the observant souls to realize that the legacy of the First World War was disillusionment and cynicism.

Our stock of idealism has temporarily run low and a mood of cynicism has replaced the devoted enthusiasm of 1918…


Click here to read a 1916 article about life on the German home front.

Thanksgiving and Football (The Stars and Stripes, 1918)
1918, Football History, Recent Articles, The Stars and Stripes

Thanksgiving and Football
(The Stars and Stripes, 1918)

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Peace was eleven days old when this column first appeared.
Anticipating Thanksgiving, 1918, The Stars & Stripes announced that football games, movies and assorted other forms of entertainment had been arranged by the American Red Cross in order to placate the eager American survivors of the First World War who simply wanted to get on those big boats and sail home.


As an expression of gratitude, numerous French families had volunteered to invite American soldiers and sailors to their homes to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday.

Bad 1940 Movies | 1940 Hollywood Studios Fail To Attract Audiences
1940, Hollywood History, PM Tabloid

Failing To Attract An Audience
(PM Tabloid, 1940)

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In spite of the incredible films that Hollywood churned out in 1939 – Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, it seemed that there were some folks in 1940 who just wouldn’t be satisfied. This completely irked the citizens of Hollywood. And so the editor of Variety dispatched pollsters hither and yon to ask why they
thought the movies stunk.

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The Book that Shook the Kremlin (Coronet Magazine, 1959)
1959, Coronet Magazine, Recent Articles, The Cold War

The Book that Shook the Kremlin
(Coronet Magazine, 1959)

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How Pasternak’s Russian novel, Doctor Zhivagostyle=border:none (1957), came to be published was not your standard bourgeois affair involving manuscripts sent by certified mail to charming book agents who host long, wet lunches – quite the contrary. As the journalist noted in the attached article: It is an intriguing story involving the duplicity of one Italian communist who gleefully deceived a multitude Soviets favoring that the work be buried forever.

'Guns On French Cliffs Shell British Ships (PM Tabloid, 1940)
1940, France, PM Tabloid

‘Guns On French Cliffs Shell British Ships
(PM Tabloid, 1940)

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A British convoy in the Straits of Dover today ran the gauntlet of terrific cannonade of long range German artillery on the French cliffs from Calais to Boulogne. The spectacular Channel bombardment was witnessed by thousands on the Dover cliffs. They reported that none of the 18 ships in the British convoy appeared to have been hit.

American Opinions of the NEW DEAL 1933 | American Reaction to the Great Depression
1933, New Outlook Magazine, The Great Depression

The Unhappy Constituents
(New Outlook Magazine, 1933)

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If President Roosevelt were a Caliph in ancient Baghdad, he would disguise himself as a Congressman and wander about the country asking the man at the filling station, the hitch-hiker, the farmer and his wife, the local chairlady of a woman’s club – he would ask them what they thought of FDR, the NRA, [General] Hugh Johnson, Brain Trusters, Jim Farley and the entire set-up in Washington… He would be startled. Mr Roosevelt is growing exceedingly unpopular – not so much the President himself as his Administration.


More about New Deal problems can be read here…

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