This article is essentially a collection of lyrics from an assortment of songs sung by the Black Doughboys who were charged with the task of loading and unloading trucks far behind the front line trenches during the First World War. It was written in 1927 to serve as a review for Singing Soldiers
All dese colored soldiers comin’ over to France
All dese soldiers an’ me
Goin’ to help de Whites make de Kaiser dance
All dese soldiers an’ me…
There was one thing the Japanese hated more than being defeated and occupied by the Gai-jin (the Japanese slur for Whites) and that was when their daughters, sisters and nieces began bedding their tormentors and baring their young. Tremendous shame was brought on these women, and their families. This article is about the Amerasian babies who were isolated in a special orphanage designed just for them.
How did all of this come to pass? Click here to find out…
The attached article is essentially a behind the scenes look at the making of Walt Disney’s 1938 triumph Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs:
• He employed 569 people who worked all day and frequently all night to finish it.
•The film took three and half years to make and cost $1,500,000.00.
•He concocted 1500 different paints to give it unmatched color.
•He spent $70,000.00 developing a brand new camera to give it depth.
•He threw away four times the drawings he made and the film he shot.
•He made over 2,000,000 separate drawings…
Although Disney’s wife, Lilian, was said to have remarked, No one’s ever gonna pay a dime to see a dwarf picture, the movie generated more box office receipts than any other film in 1938.
The attached article is essentially a behind the scenes look at the making of Walt Disney’s 1938 triumph Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs:
• He employed 569 people who worked all day and frequently all night to finish it.
•The film took three and half years to make and cost $1,500,000.00.
•He concocted 1500 different paints to give it unmatched color.
•He spent $70,000.00 developing a brand new camera to give it depth.
•He threw away four times the drawings he made and the film he shot.
•He made over 2,000,000 separate drawings…
Although Disney’s wife, Lilian, was said to have remarked, No one’s ever gonna pay a dime to see a dwarf picture, the movie generated more box office receipts than any other film in 1938.
We shall fight until the terror of the plutocracies has been broken.
– so blathered Adolf Hitler in a radio address from early 1940 in which he attempted to clarify the Nazi war aims. Never forgetting that the zi in Nazi is derived from Sozi for socialist (Compare with ‘Commie’ for ‘Communist’) – the dictator was heard here doing what he did from time to time in his speeches; borrowing the street hustle of the proletarian underdog (many thanks to WIKIanswers).
Click here to read another article on the same topic.
This is an interesting article that indicates just how profoundly elections had changed after 1920, when women began to vote. Previously, when the voting booth was a gender-specific domain, the victory margins were seldom greater than 10%; yet, beginning with the 1920 presidential election and continuing through the election of 1936, dramatic differences could be seen between the winners and losers that had never existed in prior contests.
The journalist believed that the advent of radio broadcasting also played a contributing factor in these elections.
Read a 1951 profile of a future First Lady: the young Nancy Reagan.
An interesting article is attached herein that originally appeared in a 1946 issue of COLLIER’S MAGAZINE recalling the last days of the once fair-haired boy of the Third Reich, Herman Göering (1893 – 1946). Filed from the U.S. Army interrogation center at the Ashcan (nom de guerre for the Palace Hotel in Fromburg, Luxemburg) you’ll get a sense as to how the fallen Luftwaffe Reichsmarshal, formerly so over-plumed and perfumed, paraded and posed for both his jailers and his fellow inmates while awaiting trial. A good read.
Click here to read an eyewitness account of the suicide of Himmler.
Click here to read about the dating history of Adolf Hitler.
Here is a 1925 review of William Allen White’s (1868 – 1944) biography Woodrow Wilson: the Man, his Times and his Task:
Whether or not Woodrow Wilson will live as a world figure depends not so much upon what work he has done as upon what the chance of time and circumstance will do with his work. He must live or die in world fame bound upon the League of Nations. If that stands he may tower beside it…If the League crumbles, then Wilson will become one of the host of good men who spent their zeal striving for futile things.
An article about Wilson’s reluctance to go to war can be read here…
Click here to read a list of Wilson’s Fourteen Points for the Versilles Treaty.
This article recorded portions of the battle on Capitol Hill that were waged between the Spring and Winter of 1937 when Congress was crafting legislation that would establish a minimum wage law for the nation’s employees as well as a maximum amount of working hours they would be expected to toil before additional payments would be required. This legislation would also see to it that children were removed from the American labor force. The subject at hand is the Black-Connery Bill and it passed into law as the Fair Labor Standards Act.
These are the observations of an American woman in fascist Japan; the writer was Joy Homer. In this article she tells of her travels to Tokyo in 1940 where she was asked to secretly address those small groups that silently wished for a republican form of government while silently opposing their country’s imperial conquest of China.
