‘A Message to the White Collar Class” (Pic Magazine, 1941)
A very self-conscious column regarding the American class structure.
F.D.R.
Justice Pierce Butler (Pathfinder Magazine, 1937)
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Justice Willis Van Devanter (Pathfinder Magazine, 1937)
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Justice Charles Evans Hughes (Pathfinder Magazine, 1937)
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Justice Charles Evans Hughes (Pathfinder Magazine, 1937)
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Justice McReynolds (Pathfinder Magazine, 1937)
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.
African-Americans, FDR, and the 1944 Election (Yank Magazine, 1944)
A segment from a longer article regarding the 1944 presidential election and the widespread disillusionment held by many Black voters regarding the failings of FDR and his administration:
…the Negro vote, about two million strong, is shifting back into the Republican column.
The report is largely based upon the observations of one HARPER’S MAGAZINE correspondent named Earl Brown.
The group that advised FDR on all matters involving the African-American community was popularly known as the Black Brain Trust…
When New York City Mourned F.D.R. (Yank Magazine, 1945)
With the exception of the attached piece, there is no magazine article in existence that illustrated so clearly the soul-piercing pain that descended upon the city of New York when the word got around that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had died. YANK correspondent Bill Davidson walked from one neighborhood to the next recording much of what he saw:
Nowhere was grief so open as in the poorest districts of the city. In Old St. Patrick’s in the heart of the Italian district on the lower East Side, bowed, shabby figures came and went, and by the day after the President died hundreds of candles burned in front of the altar. ‘Never’ a priest said ‘have so many candles burned in this church’.
A woman clasped her 8-year-old son and said, ‘Not in my lifetime or in yours will we again see such a man.’
The FDR Assassination Attempt (Coronet Magazine, 1960)
The attached article recalls that seldom remembered day in February of 1933 when Giuseppe Zangara (1900 – 1933) fired fifteen bullets wildly into a Florida crowd in an attempt to murder President-Elect Franklin Roosevelt.
Her Life Since Leaving the White House (’47 Magazine, 1947)
Attached is a 1947 article that reported on the post-FDR life of The Widow Roosevelt since assuming the position of the United States delegate to the newly established United Nations:
Mrs Roosevelt’s performance during the first session of the U.N. General Assembly in London during the winter of 1946 surprised and pleased even those who had once been her husband’s most bitter foes.