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The Training of American Blue Blooded Officers at Plattsburg (Vanity Fair Magazine, 1917)
1917, Vanity Fair Magazine, World War One

The Training of American Blue Blooded Officers at Plattsburg
(Vanity Fair Magazine, 1917)

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A leaf torn from the chic pages of VANITY FAIR in which eight snap shots depict various high-profile New Yorkers absorbed in their officer training routine. The journalist opined:

The Business Man’s Camp at Plattsburg has accomplished several of it’s avowed objects. It has proved itself practicable. It has demonstrated that men of high standing in business, professional and social affairs are willing to make personal sacrifices for the country’s good. It has shown that American officers have made good use of lessons taught by the War, and have adapted their tactics to conform to modern exigencies. Finally, the Plattsburg camp has grounded a large number of intelligent Americans in the rudiments of warfare.


You can read an article about General Wood here.

WW1 German Machine Guns Manned by Women 1918
1919, Recent Articles, The Stars and Stripes, World War One

German Girls Captured as Machine Gunners
(Stars and Stripes, 1919)

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This paragraph was lifted from a longer article concerning the battle-savvy Native Americans of World War One and it supports the claims made in 1918 by a number of nameless allied POW’s who reported seeing female soldiers in German machine gun crews toward the close of W.W I. There is solid documentation pertaining to the women who served in the Serb, Russian and French armies but very little as to the German ladies who did the same. The article appeared after the Armistice and this was a time when The Stars and Stripes editors were most likely to abstain from printing patriotic falsehoods.

If you would like to read another article about women combatants in W.W. II, click here.

Click here to read additional articles about the rolls women played during W.W. I.

History of the Little Brown Church of the Valley 4418 Coldwater Cyn |
1954, Faith, The American Magazine

Open All Night
(The American Magazine, 1954)

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Ever since America established the car culture, there came a need for all-night retail establishments: hamburgers, hot dogs, beer, pharmaceuticals – you get the picture. During the late Thirties this became apparent to the Reverend John Welles as he drove aimlessly through the West – he saw that it was quite possible to acquire meatloaf at all hours of the night, but if you wanted to speak with a minister of the Gospel, you were just plain out of luck. It was then that Welles swore to himself:


If ever I have another church, it will be open day and night. The soul doesn’t come alive on Sunday mornings only, and some day I’ll build a church where people can pray whenever they wish.

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The Farm Service Administration in 1942
1942, Agricultural Labor, Pic Magazine

Aid From The Farm Service Administration
(Pic Magazine, 1942)

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It matters not that we’re fighting a war on, under and over all the seas and on half the continents of the earth. Uncle Sam is determined that there shall be be no new army of ‘forgotten men’ to make a mockery of all the things for which we are now fighting…The Farm Security Administration [has been] detailed to look out for migratory defense workers – the kind who can’t find a place to live in overcrowded war-boom towns


Click here to read about the effects that the Great Depression had on the clothes we wore…

Ageist View of Older Adult Main Characters in Movies | Stereotypical Mothers in Hollywood Movies | Portrayal of Older Characters in Movies
1926, Flappers, Pathfinder Magazine

The Depiction of Mothers in Silent Film
(Pathfinder, 1926

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This one is from the more things change, the more they stay the same department; it was penned by an outraged woman who was plenty peeved that nascent Hollywood chose to cast geezers to play the rolls of mothers in their movies. In light of the fact that women had babies at far, far younger ages one hundred years ago, she illustrated her point with an anecdote pulled from the annals of the Chicago Police Department.

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Why More Boys Are Born During and After Wars | Boy-Girl Birth Ratio During Wartime
1942, Pic Magazine, Recent Articles, World War Two

More Boys Are Born During War
(Yank & Pic Magazines, 1945)

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The fact that more boy babies are born during and immediately after major wars is a phenomenon that was discovered by the underpaid statisticians employed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1942. The articles that are attached are but two of what was probably four hundred articles that appeared on the topic that year. The writers and thinkers of the digital age continue studying this actuality – among them is the gang over at Psychology Today who wrote:

Scientists have known for a long time that more boys than usual are born during and after major wars. The phenomenon was first noticed in 1954 with regard to white children born during World War II in the United States. It has since been replicated for most of the belligerent nations in both World Wars. The phenomenon has been dubbed the ‘returning soldier effect.’ There is no doubt that the phenomenon is real, but nobody has been able to explain it. Why are soldiers who return from wars more likely to father sons than other men?

Gray Hair on Young Men | Grey Hair from Stress
1944, Pathfinder Magazine, Recent Articles, World War Two

The Brutality of Combat
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1944)

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The shock of modern battle is so severe to nervous systems that the hair color of thousands of young men in the Pacific and European theaters of war has turned gray overnight.


Not surprisingly, the young men in question had no interest in resembling their grandfathers
and so the services of a patriotic hair dye manu- facturing firm were secured.


Read more articles from PATHFINDER MAGAZINE…

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Women Taking Men's Jobs During WW I
1919, Recent Articles, The American Legion Weekly, Women (WWI)

‘The Woman Who Took A Soldier’s Job”
(American Legion Weekly, 1919)

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Two years ago when the men began to drop out of the industrial world at the call to the colors their women associates gradually slipped into their places, and in the majority of cases effectively filled them… Those men have now nearly all come back to claim their old, or better jobs. What of the girl, then, in the soldier’s job? What is she going to do?

The Twilight of the New Deal (United States News and World Report, 1946)
1946, F.D.R., Recent Articles, The U.S. News and World Report

The Twilight of the New Deal
(United States News and World Report, 1946)

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The crusading spirit that Franklin D. Roosevelt was able to summon up in the minds of Government employees at the outset of his first administration, and again in the years that followed, now is vanishing. The spirit and imagination of Mr. Roosevelt brought into public service would not have been there.

It was this quality that captured the enthusiasm of engineers like J.A. Krug; of lawyers like Oscar S. Cox, Ben Cohen and Thomas Corcoran; of economists like Robert Nathan, Launchlin Curie, Leon Henderson and Isadore Lubin.

Executive Order 8802 | Anti-Discrimination Laws in 1940s America
1941, Collier's Magazine, F.D.R.

Integrating the Home Front
(Collier’s Magazine 1941)

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Although the Roosevelt administration believed that integrating the armed forces was far too risky a proposition during wartime, it did take one important step to insure that fair hiring practices were followed by all businesses that held defense contracts with the Federal government; during the summer of 1941, while American industry was still fulfilling its roll as the arsenal of democracy, a Federal law was passed that criminalized racist hiring practices. The attached editorial from Collier’s Magazine applauded the President for doing the right thing.


Read an anti-Gandhi article from 1921…

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Hispanic Women in the WACs (Yank Magazine, 1945)
1945, WACs, Yank Magazine

Hispanic Women in the WACs
(Yank Magazine, 1945)

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A group of women of Latin-American extraction took the Army oath before more than 6,000 persons in San Antonio’s Municipal Auditorium to become the second section of the Benito Juarez Air-WAC Squadron, named for the hero who helped liberate Mexico from European domination in 1862.

Led by an honor guard from the first Latin-American WAC squadron, the new war-women, marched into the auditorium to be sworn in and to hear words of greeting from Colonel Oveta Culp Hobby (1905 – 1995) and from Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower (1896 – 1979).


The first Hispanic WAC was Carmen Contreras-Bozak.


Click here to read about some of the Puerto Ricans who served with distinction during the war.


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Dressed for Duty: America’s Women in Uniform, 1898-1973style=border:none

Andrew Higgins: He Made D-Day Possible (Click Magazine, 1942)
1942, Click Magazine, Weapons and Inventions

Andrew Higgins: He Made D-Day Possible
(Click Magazine, 1942)

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During an informal conversation with his biographer, Stephen Ambrose, Dwight Eisenhower once remarked that it was Andrew Higgins (1886 – 1952) who had won the war for us. Knowing that such words do not flow from the lips of generals easily, Eisenhower went on to explain to Ambrose that if it were not for the creation of Higgin’s landing crafts, the architects of the Allied victory would have had to seize the existing, and well-fortified, harbors of Europe in order to unload their invasion forces – and who knows how the island-hopping war in the Pacific would been fought?


Attached is a five page photo-essay from the Fall of 1942 about the man and his early contributions.

The Birth of the M-1 Garand Rifle (American Legion Magazine, 1939)
1939, Recent Articles, The American Legion Magazine, Weapons and Inventions

The Birth of the M-1 Garand Rifle
(American Legion Magazine, 1939)

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This article was written by the war correspondent Fairfax Downey (1894 – 1990) for a magazine that catered to American veterans of W.W. I, and it seemed that he simply could not contain his enthusiasm for the U.S. infantry’s newest rifle: the M-1 Garand:

What a gun it is! Its nine pound weight swings easily through the manual of arms. The eight-round clip (three more shots than the we used to have with the ’03 Springfield) slips in easily and the breech clicks closed. The old range scale slide has vanished; range and windage adjustments are made simply by turning two knobs… The new semi-automatic means, among other things, that the fire power of troops armed with it has increased at least two and a half times over the old Springfield.


For further magazine reading about John Garand and his rifle, click here.

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Black Confederate Soldier | Blacks That Fought for the Confederacy | Camp Slaves in the Confederate Army
1922, African-American History, Confederate Veteran Magazine, Recent Articles

The Camp Slaves
(Confederate Veteran Magazine, 1922)

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By the time this small paragraph appeared in the 1922 pages of Confederate Veteran Magazine the vast majority of their readership was living on their Confederate pensions. This article serves to remind the subscribers that there were numerous faithful Negroes who were also deserving of same. The author recounts a few stories of the devotion he witnessed.

1922 Review of Ulysses by James Joyce |
1922, Recent Articles, The New York Times, Twentieth Century Writers

Ulysses by James Joyce
(NY Times, 1922)

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Here is the 1922 review of Ulysses by James Joyce as it appeared in the NEW YORK TIMES:

Before proceeding with a brief analysis of Ulysses and comment on its construction and its content, I wish to characterize it. Ulysses is the most important contribution that has been made to fictional literature in the Twentieth Century.


An interview with Joyce can be read here…

Social Differences Among the Lighter Skinned and Darker Skinned Blacks (Literary Digest, 1922)
1922, African-American History, The Literary Digest

Social Differences Among the Lighter Skinned and Darker Skinned Blacks
(Literary Digest, 1922)

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The varying degrees of color found among American Blacks has been, and still is, a sensitive topic and it was addressed in 1922 with some wit by an African-American journalist whose work is attached. Its a good read and speaks of a social structure that, we like to think, is gone with the wind; words appear in this article that seem queer in our era – there is much talk of


yellow gals
golden-skinned slave girls
tawny-skinned maids
midnight
stove-pipe

-all originating from African-American verse and popular song.


During the Second World War, hair dye was not simply used by women;
click here to read about the men who needed it, too.


Click here to read about black women who pass for white.


Click here to read a history of African-Americans between the years 1619 through 1939.

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