An American in Kharkov
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1932)
An American woman recalled the difficulties she encountered while trying to set up a household in Soviet Russia.
1932
Articles from 1932
Another Addition to Man’s Incomprehension of Woman…
(The Saturday Review of Literature, 1932)
Attached is the 1932 review of Woman: Theme and Variations by Major A. Corbett-Smith:
There is no mystery about women, he announces…she is never quite sure of herself in comparison with other women; but she is well aware of her superiority to man…
Click here to read about feminine conversations overheard in the best New York nightclubs of 1937.
The Ill Fated One
(Creative Art Magazine, 1932)
There is much that can be said about those unfortunate men whom life does not treat properly and to whom only death gives the glory they had so wanted to know…One finds them on thrones, in society, among artists, among bourgeoisie, and in the lower classes. Modigliani has his place on this list of grief. His name follows hard upon those tragic ones, Van Gogh and Gauguin.
A convergence of unhappy circumstances compelled Modigliani to live poorly and to die miserably.
Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon
(Saturday Review of Literature, 1932)
In 1932, one of the few English speaking fans of bull-fighting was given the task of reviewing Ernest Hemingway’s (1899 – 1961) Death in the Afternoon
Ernest Hemingway, in the handling of words as an interpretation of life, is not a brilliant and ephemeral novillero, but a matador possessed of solid and even classic virtues.
Click here to read about Hemingway, the war correspondent.
Relief Bill Passed by Congress
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1932)
Republican President Herbert Hoover had made numerous attempts to get a Federal relief bill through the Congress to the ailing citizenry, but the Democratic congress repeatedly disagreed as to how the funds were to be distributed. Finally an agreement was reached as Hoover’s administration was reaching the end of his term and the Emergency Relief and Construction Act was passed into law.
The obnoxious features which had been injected into the legislation from time to time by Members of the House of Representatives and had so long delayed action, have been eliminated.
Manchukuo
(New Outlook Magazine, 1932)
This article heralds the creation of a new nation – the short lived puppet state of Manchukuo. Carved out of portions of Japanese-occupied Manchuria in 1932, the country was created by Imperial Japan in order to serve as an industrial province from which they could continue their military adventures in China. A good deal of column space pertains to a silver tongued Japanese Foreign Minister named Count Uchida Kōsai (1865 – 1936) and how he attempted to justify Manchukuo before the outraged members of the League of Nations – when the League declared that Manchuria was Chinese, Uchida withdrew Japan from membership in the League..
The Gloom Of It All
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1932)
It must have been very difficult to maintain a sunny disposition back in the Thirties! No doubt, residents of the Great Depression would often have to make their own good news. For example, that same month in 1932 when this article appeared it was also announced that for the first time in the nation’s history alien emigration from the United States during the last fiscal year exceeded immigration [to the United States], figures being 103,295 and 35,576 respectively – there! For those people who disliked hearing foreign accents on the streets, there was a glimmer of hope – and that’s what this article was all about: finding hope.
Are College Degrees Needed In Such A Bad Economy?
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1932)
There is sharply divided sentiment on [the subject of education]. One faction holds that a costly ‘overproduction of brains’ has contributed to our [economic] plight, while the opposition reasons that any curtailment in educational expenditure would be ‘false economy’ and that only from the best minds will come our economic salvation.
The Growth of the Deficit
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1932)
This short column refers to the growth of the U.S. deficit that was bloated during the Hoover Administration (1929 – 1933) – which up to that time was the largest ever incurred during peace time. When FDR assumed the mantel of the Presidency, it would grow considerably larger.
Click here to read an article about 1930s government spending.
Yet, despite the growing deficits, the United States was still an enormously wealthy nation…
The ”Chief Woman-Elect”
(New Outlook Magazine, 1932)
Half a dozen women who have known Eleanor Roosevelt in the past twenty years all agree that this is the first president’s wife in not a few presidential terms who might have achieved election to something in her own right; who might give ear to the women of the country. And although just listening to other people’s troubles isn’t enough, it is conceivably something.