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1920s Prohibition Mobsters
1933, Liberty Magazine, Repeal

Post-Repeal Fears
(Liberty Magazine, 1933)

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What was to be done with all the racketeers who dominated the Twenties once Prohibition was prohibited? Organizing the collective labor of truck drivers seemed to have been the most obvious project for the kingpins, but what of the average foot soldier?


“Even the rank and file have not been driven to the breadline. Current quotations for gunmen have fallen from $300 a week to as low as $100. Plain sluggers command even scantier wages. A fancy pineapple job once cost $250; by 1933 you could get a good workman for $50.”

Grace Buchanan-Dineen Detroit Spy 1943
1943, PM Tabloid, Spying

Detroit Spy-Ring Exposed
(PM Tabloid, 1943)

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Here is told the tale of Countess Grace Buchanan-Dineen, a Detroit hostess and amateur Nazi spy. She was posted to Motor City in order to report on all the goings-on there to her pals in Berlin. The FBI turned her shortly after her her arrest and she began spying for them.

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1941 Wartime Fashion
1941, Fashion (WWII), PM Tabloid

The Fashion Industry Kowtows
(PM Tabloid, 1941)

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Two Weeks after the Pearl Harbor attack, the New York fashion industry hastily manufactured profiles that were both feminine and practical for the new lives American women were about to have thrust upon them. Overnight, durable and launderable fabrics became uppermost in the thinking of the new war workers and culottes gained greater importance as the need for bicycles became a viable mode of transport for getting to the defense plants.

African-Americans Mourned for Lincoln 1865
1865, Abraham Lincoln, Harper's Weekly

Lincoln’s Truest Mourners
(Harper’s Weekly, 1865)

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“[To the liberated slaves] the name Abraham Lincoln meant freedom, justice, home, family, happiness. In his life they knew that they lived. In his perfect benignity and just purpose, inflexible as the laws of seed-time and harvest, they trusted with all their souls, whoever doubted. Their deliverer, their emancipator, their friend, their father, he was known to them as the impersonation of that liberty for which they had wept and watched, hoping against hope, praying in the very extremity of despair and waiting with patience so sublime that fat prosperity beguiled us into the meaness of saying that their long endurance of oppression proved that God had created them to be oppressed.”

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Nicaragua Declares War on Japan | Costa Rica Declares War on Japan 1941 | Canada Declares War on Japan 1941
1941, PM Tabloid, World War Two

America’s Hemispheric Allies Declare War Before FDR
(PM Tabloid, 1941)

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Within hours of the Pearl Harbor attack, the nations of Costa Rica, Nicaragua and the Dominion of Canada all declared war upon Imperial Japan. The United States wouldn’t do so until the next morning.


Although there were a number of Latin American countries that declared war on the Axis, only two, Brazil and Mexico, put men in the field (Mexican nationals served in the U.S. military)- click here to read about the Brazilians.

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White House Ghosts | White House Haunting Stories
1958, Americana, Sir! Magazine

Haunted White House
(Sir! Magazine, 1958)

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In the 218-year history of the White House, only ten people have died within its walls – yet everyone who has ever perceived the presence of a ghost insists that the spirit was that of Abraham Lincoln (who died a few blocks to the east). President Eisenhower was no exception.

FDR WW II Price Controls | FDR WW II Economic Plans 1941
1941, Home Front, Newsweek Magazine

New Deal Price Controls
(Newsweek Magazine, 1941)

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This article appeared six months before the 77th Congress passed a price control law as a wartime measure in an attempt to stave off inflation. The column pertains to the early planning of a wartime economy as the nation prepared to devote itself to total war. You’ll remember that the Supreme Court found FDR’s price control schemes (the NRA) to be unconstitutional during the Thirties. Regardless of their efforts, inflation still kicked-in after the war, up until the Republican Congress cut taxes.

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High School Home Front Victory Corps Volunteers 1944
1944, Home Front, See Magazine

The Victory Corps
(See Magazine, 1944)

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The Victory Corps was a voluntary program open to American high school
and college students during the Second World War. It was established in September of 1942 with an eye toward preparing teenagers for military service. Although its primary concern involved weapons training, physical fitness and mathematics, it also had a “farm volunteer” arm, as this article about one branch of the Sacramento Victory Corps makes clear.


More about youth and the war effort can be read here…

1941 Gallup Poll Should the USA Enter the War |1941 Popular Opinions About War in Europe
1941, Newsweek Magazine, World War Two

The War and Public Opinion
(Newsweek Magazine, 1941)

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Five months before America entered the war, pollsters sallied forth onto the streets with numerous queries:


“On the question, ‘Shall the United States enter the war to help Britain defeat Hitler?’ The New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune found war sentiment ranging from 3 out of 10 voters in New York State to 2 out of 11 in Illinois.”

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