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The Lure of College Atheism...(The Literary Digest, 1923)
1923, Education, The Literary Digest

The Lure of College Atheism…(The Literary Digest, 1923)

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They enter college as Christians and graduate as atheists or agnostics’, say some whose sons and daughters come home with a sheepskin showing proficiency in the arts and sciences and little, or none at all, in religion. The college is repeatedly blamed for this vital lack, and is not infrequently defended of the charge of failing to establish a religious background for the student.


Out of the Mouths of Babes: Girl Evangelists in the Flapper Erastyle=border:none

The Foundation Garments that Were Needed for ''The New Look'' (See Magazine, 1948)
1948, See Magazine, The New Look

The Foundation Garments that Were Needed for ”The New Look”
(See Magazine, 1948)

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Since The New Look sought to overhaul the fashion silhouette of the female form it was quickly understood that women would need different foundation garments to complete this look. Fashion’s cry has always been: When nature doth deny, let art supply – and the rocket scientists of the ladies underwear subculture did just that. The attached photo-essay from See Magazine shows three pictures of the new under-lovelies.


Click here to learn about the lingerie and pajamas that had to be hand-crafted on the W.W. II American home front…

Lampooning the American Tourists (Punch, 1922)
1922, Cartoons, Punch Magazine

Lampooning the American Tourists
(Punch, 1922)

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This gag concerns itself with another kind of American Expeditionary Force – when Pershing’s Doughboys left, they were replaced by the American tourists.


There is another article on this site that states a popular belief held by the Europeans of 1919 that American men were all clean shaven, tended to sport gold teeth, and were most easily recognized by their big tortoise shell glasses; however, this is the first visual manifestation of this caricature that we could find. This cartoonist did not simply believe that this was a fitting description of the white guys, but black guys, too -and the women as well; an entire nation resembling Harold Lloyd.

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Bernard Baruch: Elder Statesman (Yank Magazine, 1945)
1945, Interviews: 1912 - 1960, Yank Magazine

Bernard Baruch: Elder Statesman
(Yank Magazine, 1945)

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Bernard Baruch (1870 – 1965) was a major player in President Franklin Roosevelt’s Brain Trust; during World War Two he served that president as a respected adviser concerning economic matters. Not long after this interview, during the Truman Administration, he was appointed to serve as the first U.S. Representative on the U.N Atomic Energy Commission.


Click here to read a 1945 article about the funeral of FDR.

Nhu Family Power in Vietnam
1963, The United States News, The Vietnam War

What To Do About Diem?
(United States News, 1963)

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Here is an article by a respected American journalist who was dispatched to South Vietnam in order that he might see for himself what the problems were as to why the Republic of Vietnam seemed so incapable of maintaining military dominance in the field. Everywhere he went he got the same answer:

A highly respected professor at Saigon University [remarked]:
‘If you have to make a choice between supporting the Ngo family
and withdrawing from South Vietnam, you might as well pull out.

You cannot win with the family.’

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1956, The Dept. of the Army, The Korean War

The Military Results of the Korean War
(Dept. of the Army, 1956)

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Attached is an article concerning a page from American Military History and it outlines the losses and gains of the Korean War (1950 – 1953). In five sentences this article gives the number of American dead and wounded, the number of U.N. dead and wounded and the amount of ground lost to the Chinese and North Korean military; a map of the stabilized front is provided.

Babe Ruth's Record (Gentry Magazine, 1952)
1952, Babe Ruth Articles, Gentry Magazine

Babe Ruth’s Record
(Gentry Magazine, 1952)

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Compiled four years after the Babe’s death, the attached list will provide you with a compilation of all the various, assorted mosts that Babe Ruth racked up during his baseball career:


Most home runs, lifetime…………………………….714

Most home runs, American League………………708

Most home runs, World Series…………………….15

Most home runs, season…………………………….60

Most years leading in home runs………………….12

etc…etc…

Home Run No. 60 (Gentry Magazine, 1952)
1952, Babe Ruth Articles, Gentry Magazine

Home Run No. 60
(Gentry Magazine, 1952)

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Babe Ruth hit his sixtieth home run on October 1, 1927:

The mighty blow came off a south-paw throw of Tom Zachary, Senator pitcher, as he saw his low, hard one belted into Babe’s favorite parking place, the right field bleachers. This hit not only set a record, but won the game since the score was deadlocked at two-two in the eighth, when the Pasha of Bash stepped to the rubber with one out and Koenig on third…

Take a look at an interesting article about baseball played in Japanese prison camps.

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Vietminh vs the French Army 1945 | Ho Chi Minh Strategy 1945 | French Period of the Vietnam War 1945
1945, Newsweek, The Vietnam War

The Vietminh
(Newsweek Magazine, 1945)

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Hanoi is now the fountainhead of the largest and most successful anti-French insurgent movement ever mounted in Indo-China. Here Vietminh (first and last words of Viet Nam Doclap Dong Minh, meaning the league for the independence of Viet Nam) has set up the provisional government of the Viet Nam Republic. Viet Nam is the ancient name for the coastal provinces of Indo-China. Vietminh has been actively in existence since 1939. The President of Viet Nam and leader of the whole insurgent movement is a slight, graying little man of 55, named Ho Chi Minh who commanded guerrillas in collaboration with American officers in Northern Tonkin… For 43 years he has devoted himself to anti-French activity. Constantly reported captured or dead, he never actually fell into French hands.

President Kennedy Increased Military Aid to South Vietnam |1961 Letter President Kennedy to South Vietnam President Diem
1965, The Vietnam War, Why Vietnam

President Kennedy to President Diem
(Why Vietnam, 1965)

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The 1961 letter from U.S. President John Kennedy in which he remarked to President Diem that North Vietnam was in violation of the 1954 Geneva Accords that it was obliged to respect. President Kennedy acknowledged that the relentless offensives launched by the North Vietnamese Communists against South Vietnam needed to be stopped and as a result his administration intended to increase American military aid.


Click here to read a 1961 article about Jacqueline Kennedy’s influence on American fashion.

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President Eisenhower's Letter to President Diem (Why Vietnam, 1965)
1965, The Vietnam War, Why Vietnam

President Eisenhower’s Letter to President Diem
(Why Vietnam, 1965)

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In the Fall of 1954, following the French withdraw from Vietnam, President Eisenhower wrote the following letter to the president of the newly established nation of South Vietnam, Ngô Đình Diệm (1901 – 1963) pledging to provide both funding and military aid in their fight against the Communists.

The purpose of this offer is to assist the Government of Vietnam in developing and maintaining a strong, viable state, capable of resisting attempted subversion or aggression through military means. The Government of the United States expects that this aid will be met by performance on the part of the Government of Vietnam in undertaking needed reforms. It is hoped that such aid, combined with your own continuing efforts, will contribute effectively toward an independent Vietnam endowed with a strong government. Such government would, I hope, be responsive to the nationalist aspirations of its people, so enlightened in purpose and effective performance, that it will be respected both at home and abroad…

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African-Americans During the Great Depression | How Were Blacks Treated in the 1930s
1939, Pathfinder Magazine, The Great Depression

African-Americans During the Great Depression
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1939)

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Written during the later years of the Great Depression, these columns summarize the sad lot of America’s Black population – their hardships, ambitions, leadership, and where they tended to live.

When the Depression struck, Negroes were the first to lose their jobs. Today, 1,500,000 colored adults are unemployed.


A 1938 article about the hardships of the Southern States during the Great Depression can be read here…


Click here to learn about the origins of the term Jim Crow.

Nazism and Bolshevism: the Similarities (Literary Digest, 1933)
1933, The Literary Digest, The Nazis

Nazism and Bolshevism: the Similarities
(Literary Digest, 1933)

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A look at the observations made by a correspondent for The London Observer who compared the two dominate tribes found in 1933 Berlin and Moscow. The writer was far more distracted by the similarities in their street hustle and their sloganeering rather than their shared visions in governance and culture; for example, both Nazis and Communists were attracted to restrictions involving speech, assembly and gun ownership while sharing an equal enthusiasm for May Day parades and the color red. Additionally, both totalitarians had their preferred dupes:

Absolute ideas invariably demand victims; and the ruthless treatment which is deliberately meted out to Jews in Germany is closely paralleled by the creation in the Soviet Union of a sort of pariah caste of Lishentsi or disenfranchised persons.


Germany never celebrated May Day with public parades until Hitler came to power; May Day was made a national holiday and all employers were given the day off with pay.


Click here to read an article that explains in great detail how the Nazi economic system (with it’s wage and price controls) was Marxist in origin.


Read another article that compares Communism and Nazism…

British Civilians Trained to Use Gas Masks (The Literary Digest, 1936)
1936, Prelude (WW II), The Literary Digest

British Civilians Trained to Use Gas Masks
(The Literary Digest, 1936)

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This article appeared in 1936 and reported that the populations of both England and France were being trained in the general use of gas masks in anticipation of a German invasion.

Even babies will be protected in covered perambulators, into which masked ‘Nannies’ can pump air, forcing it through filter cans. Researchers are working on an infant’s mask with a nipple attachment.

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