Articles from Pathfinder Magazine
With the expansion of the Korean War, the United Nations realized that World War III was at their doorstep if they wanted to engage. Withdrawing in order to fight another day made sense – but such a decision was not without costs.
In the Summer of 1938 the New Deal administration turned its attention to the Southern States in an effort to solve the poverty that had long afflicted the region and was especially keen during the Great Depression:
The War Between the States freed the slaves, but it did not free the South. Old plantations were broken up. Pressed to meet mortgages, farmers leased part of their farms to tenants. Cheap [African-American] labor remained and children were pressed into service on the Southern fields. Cotton and low labor costs stayed in the South.
Read about FDR’s African-American advisers here…
Three years before the total French withdrawal from Vietnam, this one Frenchman summed up his comrade’s frustrations concerning their battles against the Viet Minh:
We can’t win a guerrilla war unless we have the support of the people. Frankly, we have not got it. Hitler or the Russians could conquer this country in two months with mass executions, wholesale reprisals and concentration camps. To fight this war and remain humanitarian is difficult.
Italy, Germany and Russia, leading exponents of Europe’s Fascist and Communist camps, have each asked for more prolific mothers and decreed measures designed to fetch in the bambini, kinder and kodomos. Their dictator’s desires for more babies and still more babies have developed into a population race.
Click here to read about the Nazi struggle to increase their birthrate…
More articles about FDR Supreme Court scheme can be read here…… KEY WORDS: Justice Willis Van Devanter magazine article,Justice Willis
More articles about FDR Supreme Court scheme can be read here…… KEY WORDS: Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler 1937,Justice Pierce
One of FDR’s primary targets was the 75 year-old Justice James Clark McReynolds, attached you will find a four page profile of the man.
More articles about FDR Supreme Court scheme can be read here…… KEY WORDS: Justice Charles Evans Hughes magazine article,Justice Charles
More articles about FDR Supreme Court scheme can be read here…… KEY WORDS: Justice Charles Evans Hughes magazine article,Justice Charles
Before there was an HSN or a QVC – before there was an Adam Freeman or a Mary Beth Roe, there was Your Television Shopper and Leave It To The Girls starring Maggie Johnson and Faye Emerson, respectively. The programs were two of several such shows that aired during the prepubescent days of television broadcasting – and like the shopping shows that came along fifty years later, they, too, moved products off the shelves at a surprising pace.
Click here to read how Hollywood costume designer affected popular fashion…
