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Italian War on Abyssinia | Emilio De Bono Article 1937
1937, Ethiopia, The Literary Digest

The Italian Conquest of Ethiopia (Literary Digest, 1937)

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A column about Mussolini’s Minister of Colonies, Emilio De Bono (1866 – 1944) and his popular book, La Preparazione E Le Prime Operazioni:

Last week, with the appearance of a third printing, following a sold-out second edition (both of which were marked for publication in 1937), Italians at home and abroad noted certain deletions, including the passage which intimated that Mussolini had been on the point of abandoning his campaign in the face of British armed intervention.

The Wartime Leadership of Woodrow Wilson (Vanity Fair Magazine, 1918)
1918, Vanity Fair Magazine, Woodrow Wilson

The Wartime Leadership of Woodrow Wilson (Vanity Fair Magazine, 1918)

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There are various reasons for Woodrow Wilson’s present preëminence. For one thing he represented, for years, the rights, under International Law, of the nations which were not in the war, and whatever his private opinions may have been as to an attitude of strict legality….Then, further, he is at the head of a nation which had no selfish motives in coming in. America wants for herself no new territory, no new spheres of influence. France wants Alsace and Lorraine. Italy wants ‘Italia Irridenta’. England, though she declared war to save France from being overrun through losing the channel ports, has gained incidentally all German Africa and the German islands of the South Seas…


Click here to read a 1913 article about Woodrow Wilson’s Under Secretary of the Navy: Franklin Delano Roosevelt…

Anti-Prohibition argument | HL Mencken on disasters of Prohibition | Prohibition and 1920s Popular Culture
1921, Prohibition History, Recent Articles, The Smart Set

The Damage of Prohibition (The Smart Set, 1921)

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Attached is an editorial that was co-authored by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken from their reoccurring column in The Smart Set: Répétition Générale. This brief column sought to expose the damages inflicted upon the country by the guardians of the national virtue and their bastard children, Prohibition and the Volstead Act, which will primarily serve to promote the wide (though illegal) distribution of all the poorest distilled spirits concocted in the most remote frontiers of civilization.

Winston Churchill Magazine Interview 1941
1941, Collier's Magazine, Recent Articles, Winston Churchill

48 Hours With Winston Churchill (Collier’s Magazine, 1941)

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It is not an interview with the Prime Minister. He is too busy to give interviews and his sense of fairness long ago forced him to make the rule of ‘no interviews’. If he couldn’t give an interview to all, he wouldn’t give an interview to one. But I spent two days with him and this story is of the Winston Churchill I got to know well in forty-eight hours.

California Farm Labor (Pageant Magazine, 1952)
1952, Agricultural Labor, Pageant Magazine

California Farm Labor (Pageant Magazine, 1952)

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With the bad old days that spanned that period between October, 1929 through August, 1945 seen only in the rear view mirror, many Americans began to enjoy the high life that came with the booming post-war economy – a buying spree that wouldn’t slow until the mid Seventies. In the midst of so much plenty American magazines began to run articles about some of the folks who weren’t partaking in all the fun, and this article is a fine example – it is about the 2,000,000 white people who toiled in the fields of the San Joaquin Valley. Thirteen years later they would be outsourced by a labor pool willing to work for even less money.

… They get no unemployment insurance. They get no social security benefits. The law does not, in the main, protect them.


Click here to read about the horrendous living conditions of 1940s migrant workers…


Click here to read about the tremendous hardships that fell upon the fertile San Joaquin Valley in 1937…

1920 Short Skirts | Flappers Show Their Knees | 1920s Flappers Showing Legs
1922, Flappers, Recent Articles, The Flapper Magazine

Ode to Feminine Knees (Flapper Magazine, 1922)

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When the skirt hems began to rise in the Twenties, it was widely understood that the vision of a woman’s leg was a rare treat for both man and boy; a spectacle that had not been enjoyed since the days of Adam (married men excluded). The flappers certainly knew this, and they generally believed that suffering the dizzying enthusiasm of the male of the species was a small price to pay in order to secure some element of liberty. The flappers liked their hem-lengths just where they were and, thank you very much, they were not about to drop them. Attached are some verses by an anonymous flapper who expressed her reaction regarding all that undeserved male attention her knees were generating.

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