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1950 Increase in Defense Budget Spending | American Response to Chinese Military Invasion of Korea
1950, Pathfinder Magazine, The Korean War

The War Budget Grows
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1950)

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The Chinese foray into Korea resulted in the coming together of numerous politicians in Washington in order to boost Army spending by $41.8 billion dollars, with an additional $1 billion designated for nuclear warfare preparedness. Assorted branches of the military increased the draft pool and lowered their admission standards. New Jersey Representative Charles Eaton(R) gravely stated:

We face the greatest danger of extinction since the nation was founded.

Under-Nourished German Children (Magazine Advertisement, 1922-3)
1922, Aftermath (WWI), Magazine Advertisement

Under-Nourished German Children
(Magazine Advertisement, 1922-3)

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Attached is a sad advertisement that ran on the pages of THE NATION for a number of years following the end of the war. Posted by a German charity, the ad pictures -what we can assume to be- a starving German child from one of the more impoverished regions of Saxony or Thuringia. All told, the photo and the accompanying text clearly illustrate the economic hardships that plagued post-World War I Germany.


Click here to read an article about the German veterans of W.W. I.

Nazi Escape from Justice |
1944, Click Magazine, The Nazis

The Plan For Post-War Revenge
(Click Magazine, 1944)

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This snippet that appeared in Click Magazine during the early months of 1944 supports the argument posed by journalist Gerard Williams and the investigators on the program Hunting Hitler. It stated that a Nazi insider had defected to London where he informed British intelligence of a Nazi plan to launch a third world war from the confines of, it was assumed, another country.

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Life in W.W. II Germany (Collier's, 1943)
1943, Collier's Magazine, German Home Front

Life in W.W. II Germany
(Collier’s, 1943)

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This Collier’s article clearly illustrated the gloom that hung over the German home front of 1943:

Nobody escapes war service in Germany. Children serve in air-raid squads; women work very hard…The black market flourishes everywhere. More fats are required, as are fruits and vegetables, for the people’s strength is declining. A report I have seen of Health Minister Conti shows that the mortality rate for some diseases rose 49 percent in 1941 – 1942.


Click here to read about the dating history of Adolf Hitler.

U.S. Army Casualties: 1941 - 1944 (United States News, 1944)
1944, The United States News, World War Two

U.S. Army Casualties: 1941 – 1944
(United States News, 1944)

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Here are the U.S. Army casualty figures from December, 1941 through November, 1944. The provided graph points out the following major events that ushered in the larger numbers:


• The Philippine collapse

• The American landings in North Africa

• The Battle of Kasserine Pass

• The Sicily Landings

• Anzio

• D-Day


Shortly after this article appeared on the newsstands the Germans launched their winter counter-offensive in the Ardennes. The editors of this magazine anticipated the American losses for 1945 to be the highest yet.


Click here to read General Marshall’s end-of-war remarks about American casualty figures.


A G.I. Rememberance of the ETO dead…

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1930s Illegal Immigration | Great Depression Illegal Immigrants Deported | 1930s Illegal Immigration Article
1937, Immigration History, The Literary Digest

Deported From Ellis Island
(Literary Digest, 1937)

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Here is a 1937 article concerning those stout souls who thought they’d make their way into the United States illegally – but made it no further than Ellis Island:

Aliens who have sneaked into the country are, by the fact of their entry, lawbreakers… Out of gratitude to a country which has welcomed them, is it too much to ask the properly qualified alien to register, in order that his fraudulent countrymen me be detected and sent home?

WAAC Uniform Designer | US Army Colonel LO Grice Deputy Director of US Army Quartermaster Corps | Dorthy Shaver WAAC Uniforms
1942, The American Magazine, WACs

The Man Behind The WAAC Uniforms
(The American Magazine, 1942)

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Although the WAAC uniforms were designed by Dorthy Shavers (1893 – 1959) of Lord & Taylor, this short article credits U.S. Army Colonel L.O. Grice – who actually served more in the capacity as the Army’s artistic director who supervised the designer.

He picked everything from purses to panties for Uncle Sam’s powder-puff army…


Click here to read about the WAVE’s uniform…

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The New Glamour of Velvet (Literary Digest, 1936)
1930s Fashion, 1936, The Literary Digest

The New Glamour of Velvet
(Literary Digest, 1936)

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A 1930s fashion article which perfectly encapsulated some of the heady excitement that filled the air when a new crush-resistant, non-wrinkling, packable, ultra-fashionable velvet hit the market. The material was immediately swooped-up by the glam squad in far-off Hollywood; RKO chief costume designer Walter Plunkett pontificated:

Velvet is the epitome and symbol of elegance.


Not one to be upstaged, Travis Banton (1894 – 1958) Plunckett’s counterpart at Paramount Studios, chimed in declaring:

The flattery and refinement of velvet is supplied by no other material.

Anticipating the Springtime coronation of Edward VIII, thousands of yards of velvet had been manufactured for the occasion.


Click here to read about the woman who dictated many of the fabric restriction rules on the American home front.

1938, Direction Magazine, Modern Art

Government Funding for the Arts Praised
(Direction, 1938)

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An editorial by the artist Philip Evergood (1901 – 1973) who believed that the Federal Arts Project of the Thirties had not simply made the lives of artists a little better but has also created a far better society:

The Federal Arts Project has pointed the way to an American Culture. It has set a weight in motion, it has let loose a force that has affected hundreds of thousands of lives. It has made murals depicting the history of our country and the lives of our people have been placed on the walls of our schools, hospitals, libraries and public buildings making them of greater beauty and of greater community interest – monuments and small sculpture have been added in equal numbers, easel paintings and prints now hang in thousands on the walls of public buildings…

Evergood likened this government funding to the Renaissance, when the church served as the artist’s patron and culture flourished.

Click here if you would like to read a 1939 article about the closing of the Federal arts funding program.
Click here to read a 1942 article by Rockwell Kent on the proper roll of American artists during wartime.

The Plot to Kill Hitler (Yank Magazine, 1945)
1945, Adolf Hitler, Yank Magazine

The Plot to Kill Hitler
(Yank Magazine, 1945)

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During the summer of 1945, Yank reporter Corporal Howard Katzander, spent some time among the Third Army’s prisoners of war where he happened upon a German senior officer who was in a very talkative mood:

The story he was telling was the story of why the war did not end last July. It was the story of the attempt to assassinate Hitler and he knew all about it. Because this was Lieutenant Colonel Wilhelm Kuebart, a member of the Wermacht General Staff, and one of the original plotters.


Published in June of 1945, this must have been the first English language article about the Valkyrie plot.

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How was Marilyn Monroe Discovered as a Model | Glamorous Marilyn Monroe
1954, Marilyn Monroe, People Today Magazine

The Woman Who Created Marilyn Monroe
(People Today Magazine, 1954)

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You can bet that throughout the short career of Marilyn Monroe there were voluminous amounts stylistes, cosmetologists, coiffeurs and doyennes of glamour who came in contact with the headliner at one time or another. Some offered genuine nuggets of beauty wisdom while others could only offer bum steers. Although the name Emmeline Snively may sound like a character from a Charles Dickens novel, she was in actuality the very first woman to offer sound fashion advice to the ingenue – advice that would start her on her path to an unparalleled celebrity status as the preeminent Blonde Bombshell in all of Hollywood. You see, Emmeline Snively was the one who recommended that La Monroe dye her hair that color in the first place.

An Alien Anti-Dumping Bill (Literary Digest, 1921)
1921, Immigration History, The Literary Digest

An Alien Anti-Dumping Bill
(Literary Digest, 1921)

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A 3 percent remedy’ for our immigration ills, real or fancied, will restrict the admission of aliens from May of this year to June, 1922, to 3 percent of the total of each nationality in this country when the Federal census was taken in 1910. As passed by the house, and expected to pass the Senate, the new measure, except for the time limit, is identical with the Johnson Bill passed in the last session of Congress and killed by pocket-veto of President Wilson.

But the Johnson Bill does not set up a permanent restrictive policy; it is intended merely to protect this country for the next fourteen months from a horde of Europe’s most objectionable classes.

Good and Bad Writing About World War I (Vanity Fair, 1915)
1915, Vanity Fair Hall of Fame, Writing

Good and Bad Writing About World War I
(Vanity Fair, 1915)

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A small column from a 1915 issue of Vanity Fair in which the correspondent praised the virtues of Howard Copeland (an American psychologist and ambulance volunteer working in Frabce), Gertrude Aldrich (author of an Atlantic Magazine essay titled, Little House on the Marne), Cardinal Mercier (author of the Great Belgian Pastoral) and W.F. Bailey (authored a paper concerning the war in Northeastern Europe). These writers are preferred to the usually celebrated ink-slingers like Hellaire Belloc, Rudyard Kipling, Anatole France, and Arnold Bennett who are all compared to amateur recruiting sergeants in support of the War.


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ANTI-FA Movement 1930s | Resistance to Mussolini Fascist Government | Resistance to Fascism
1937, Benito Mussolini, Pathfinder Magazine

The Anti-Mussolini Resistance
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1937)

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It is terribly chic these days to insist that the presidency of Donald Trump was Fascist – no one would have found this statement more hilarious than the fellows who are profiled in the attached article. These are the men who were assaulted on the streets and in their offices by Mussolini’s supporters, these are the writers who were censored and blacklisted – these hardy souls were the original Anti-Fa.

1939 Cash and Carry FDR New Deal | FDR American Neutrality 1939 | 1939 Revised Cash and Carry Trade Policy
1939, Pathfinder Magazine, World War Two

‘Cash and Carry”
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1939)

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Cash and carry was a diplomatic trade policy set in place by the FDR administration; it was crafted during a special session of the U.S. Congress on September 21, 1939, as a result of the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe. It replaced the Neutrality Act of 1937, by which belligerent parties would purchase only non-military goods from the United States so long as the client states in question paid in cash at the time of purchase and assumed full responsibility for transportation. The 1939 Cash and carry revision allowed for the purchasing of military arms to belligerents on the same cash-and-carry basis. The purpose of the policy was to maintain neutrality between the United States and European nations while giving aid to Britain by allowing them to buy non war materials.


Shortly after the 1940 election, British Prime Minister Churchill told FDR that Britain could no longer afford to buy military supplies under the code of cash and carry and a new agreement needed to be agreed upon. The President then persuaded Congress to swap cash-and-carry with Lend-Lease – a new piece of legislation that granted the president authority to sell, exchange, lend, or lease war materiel to any nation whose defense was vital to U.S. security.

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