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Jewish Boycott of German Goods | 1933 Anti-Nazi Boycott
1935, Jews in the 20th Century, The Literary Digest

Jewish Americans Boycotted German Products
(Literary Digest, 1935)

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Having suffered from a Jewish-lead boycott of German goods that had been in place for two years, the businessmen of Nazi Germany dispatched Dr. Julius Lippert (1895 – 1956) off to Washington in order soothe hurt feelings and bring an end to it all. Seeing that Lippert was a devoted anti-Semite and the whole dust-up commenced because of the widespread anti-Semitic sensations that made up the very core of Hitler’s Germany were still in place and not likely to subside any time soon, Washington functionaries probably yawned and informed him that there was nothing that could be done on the Federal level.

Woodrow Wilson Cabinet Officers 1917 | Franklin Knight Lane Article
1922, The American Review of Reviews, Woodrow Wilson

President Wilson’s War Cabinet Convenes
(Review of Reviews, 1922)

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Franklin Knight Lane (1864 – 1921) recalled his service as President Wilson’s Secretary of the Interior and the eventful year of 1917 when Wilson lead the U.S. into it’s first European war. Some may be amused as he reminiscences about the time Army Chief of Staff General Tasker H. Bliss (1853 – 1930) fell asleep during one of the cabinet meetings.

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London Economic Conference 1933 Article | FDR and Global Economic Depression 1933 | The World Economic Conference 1933
1933, The Great Depression, The Literary Digest

The Economic Collapse of the World
(Literary Digest, 1933)

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Published in May of 1933, the attached article concerned the much anticipated London Economic Conference which was scheduled to convene the following month in London. The world leaders who agreed to assemble were all of one mind in so much as their shared belief that collectively they would stand a better chance in defeating the economic depression that was bedeviling all their respective countries. It was their intention to meet and review all existing international trade and tariff agreements and to make an effort at stabilizing the currency exchange rates.

FDR's Funeral (Yank Magazine, 1945)
1945, F.D.R., Yank Magazine

FDR’s Funeral
(Yank Magazine, 1945)

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Here is a series of articles from YANK magazine that reported on the funeral of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. One of these four correspondents was assigned to write about the general sense of loss that New Yorkers felt upon learning of the death of their president:


Not in my lifetime or in yours, will we again see see such a man.


CLICK HERE… to read the obituary of President Kennedy.

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FDR Expansion of the Executive Branch | FDR Wanted a Larger Cabinet
1937, F.D.R., The Literary Digest

He Re-Organized
(Literary Digest, 1937)

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Congressional eyes bulged last January when President Roosevelt handed Congress his plan to streamline the executive branch of the Government. He asked for sixspecial assistants, two new cabinet officers, an auditor general (to supplant the all-powerful Controller General), a reshuffling and consolidation of boards and bureaus and an expansion of the civil service in all directions.

The Making of SNOW WHITE and the SEVEN DWARFS (Photoplay Magazine, 1938)
1938, Photoplay Magazine, Walt Disney

The Making of SNOW WHITE and the SEVEN DWARFS
(Photoplay Magazine, 1938)

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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 Making of SNOW WHITE and the SEVEN DWARFS (Photoplay Magazine, 1938)
1938, Photoplay Magazine, Walt Disney

The Making of SNOW WHITE and the SEVEN DWARFS
(Photoplay Magazine, 1938)

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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.

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Speeches by Hitler and Chamberlain Compared (Pathfinder Magazine, 1940)
1940, Adolf Hitler, Pathfinder Magazine

Speeches by Hitler and Chamberlain Compared
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1940)

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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.

The Women Voter in Her First Five Elections (Pathfinder Magazine, 1940)
1940, Pathfinder Magazine, Women's Suffrage

The Women Voter in Her First Five Elections
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1940)

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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.

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Reichsmarshal Herman Göering Imprisoned (Collier's Magazine, 1946)
1946, Collier's Magazine, Hermann Goering

Reichsmarshal Herman Göering Imprisoned
(Collier’s Magazine, 1946)

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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.

The Life of Woodrow Wilson (Current Opinion, 1925)
1925, Current Opinion Magazine, Woodrow Wilson

The Life of Woodrow Wilson
(Current Opinion, 1925)

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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.

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Woodrow Wilson Quotes | Wartime Speeches by Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson on the War and the Peace
(from his Speeches)

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Here are two selected quotes from two speeches by President Wilson; the first one one is from his war speech before Congress (April 2, 1917) in which he explained why the defeat of Germany would be best for the Unites States. The other quote is excerpted from a speech he made three months earlier in which he reasoned as to why a fair peace treaty was vital in maintaining peace:

…It must be a peace without victory… Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit. The right state of mind, the right feeling between nations, is as necessary for a lasting peace as is the just settlement of vexed questions of territory or of racial and national allegiance…


Click here to read a simple list of Wilson’s 14 Points.

Farewell Woodrow Wilson (Vanity Fair Magazine, 1921)
1921, Vanity Fair Magazine, Woodrow Wilson

Farewell Woodrow Wilson
(Vanity Fair Magazine, 1921)

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Celebrated columnist Walter Lippmann (1889 – 1974) wrote this piece to mark the end of the Wilson administration (1912 – 1920) and usher-in that of Warren G. Harding (1865 – 1923).

Unlike the ink-slingers in ages to come, Lippmann had pleasant remarks to make regarding his presidency:

And I firmly believe that the historian who examines the state papers of Wilson up to November, 1918, will say, not only that they are in an unbroken line from Washington’s Farewell Address, but that it required something very like genius under the pressure and in the fog of a world war, to keep that line intact.


Click here to read about a dream that President Lincoln had, a dream that anticipated his violent death.


Read a 1951 profile of a future First Lady: the young Nancy Reagan.

Minimum Wage Law Introduced 1937 | Minimum Wage Laws Passed in 1938 | Labor Standards Act Passed 1938
1937, New Deal, Pathfinder Magazine, The Great Depression

The Wages and Hours Bill
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1937, 1938)

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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.

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