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Effect of the 17th Amendment on Senate Politics
1920, Miscellaneous, The American Legion Weekly

The Popularly-Elected Senate
(American Legion Weekly, 1920)

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In 1913 a very strong, anti-Federalist step was taken to amend the Constitution and alter the manner in which U.S. Senators were to be selected and replaced in the event of vacancies. The 17th Amendment was passed: it guaranteed that senators would no longer be elected from within the legislative bodies of the state governments, but would be elected directly by the citizens of their respective states, just as the representatives are. Historian Everett Kimball pointed out in this article how the 17th Amendment altered the very nature of the U.S. Senate.

John Wayne (Quick Magazine, 1949)
1949, Hollywood History, Quick Magazine

John Wayne
(Quick Magazine, 1949)

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The attached three page article about John Wayne appeared at the very doorstep of the Fifties – the decade that was uniquely hisown. The uncredited Hollywood journalist who wrote this column was doing so in order to announce to the reading public that Wayne was coming remarkably close to being the top box office attraction:

Wayne reached this eminence by turning out film after film for 18 years. Working with a steady, un-nervous strength for four studios: Republic, RKO, Argosy and Warner Brothers. – he shifts back and forth between Westerns, sea-epics and war pictures. With each movie he makes (most of them re-hashes of of standard action-film plots, but a few of them film classics), his fans grow.

1939, Animation History, Film Daily Magazine

Paul Terry: The Other Animator
(Film Daily, 1939)

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A short profile on Paul Terry, torn from the pages of a prominent Hollywood trade rag:

During Paul Terry’s notable career in the film industry, he has produced more than 1,000 pictures. In October of the current year he celebrates 25 years of continuous work in the cartoon field, which he helped to pioneer.

Today, the fountain of Terry-Toons is a thoroughly modern studio in New Rochelle, employing some 130 hands, all skilled in the imparting of life, voice and voice expression to the characters created on the drawing boards.

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Second Oscar for Tom and Jerry (The Lion's Roar, 1946)
1946, Animation History, The Lion's Roar

Second Oscar for Tom and Jerry
(The Lion’s Roar, 1946)

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All told, the animated cartoon series Tom and Jerry would be awarded seven (7) Academy Awards before Oscar’s attention turned elsewhere.


This 1946 article sings the praises of Fred Quimby (1886 – 1965), the animation producer who ran the shop at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio between the years 1937 and 1954:

Doff the cap to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s Fred Quimby, producer of Tom and Jerry’, the only cartoon stars to have copped the coveted Oscar for two consecutive years. Even the distinguished Donald Duck has only been Oscarized once.

‘Tom and Jerry‘ reflect in broad comedy the faults and foibles of human beings, even as you and I. Here we have a thoroughly egotistical cat and a very shrewd mouse… a cartoon representation of the eternal conflict between HERO and VILLAIN. Toma always hopes to outwit Jerry who symbolizes the underdogs of the world.

This short notice appeared in The Lion’s Roar, which was the monthly publicity rag for M.G.M. Studio.

Eleanor Roosevelt on the Death of FDR (Yank Magazine, 1945)
1945, Eleanor Roosevelt, Yank Magazine

Eleanor Roosevelt on the Death of FDR
(Yank Magazine, 1945)

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This column, by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, was an articulate effort at make some sense of her husband’s death, which took place during one of the most critical periods in world history:

Perhaps in His wisdom, the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart a way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building. It cannot be the work of one man, nor can the responsibility be laid upon his shoulders, and so when the time comes for peoples to assume the burden more fully, he is given rest.

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Some British Opinions About the First Talking Movies (Literary Digest, 1929)
1929, Talkies 1930, The Literary Digest

Some British Opinions About the First Talking Movies
(Literary Digest, 1929)

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Attached are excerpts from a few 1929 British newspapers that condemned all efforts made in Hollywood to produce talking pictures; one snide reviewer went so far as to insist that rather than calling the films talkies, they should be referred to as dummies:

The majority of films in the future will be made stupidly for stupid people, just has been the case with the silent movies for twenty years…


•Read About the First Talkie Movie Star•

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VJ Day in Paris (Yank Magazine, 1945)
1945, VJ Day, Yank Magazine

VJ Day in Paris
(Yank Magazine, 1945)

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The GIs had managed to keep their VJ spirit bottled up through most of the phony rumors, but when the real thing was announced the cork popped with a vengeance. A spontaneous parade, including jeeps and trucks and WACs and GIs and officers and nurses and enlisted me, snaked from the Red Cross Club at Rainbow Corner down to the Place de l’Opera and back…

The Ronald Reagan-Jane Wyman Crack-Up (Photoplay Magazine, 1948)
1948, Hollywood History, Photoplay Magazine

The Ronald Reagan-Jane Wyman Crack-Up
(Photoplay Magazine, 1948)

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A printable article from a 1948 Hollywood fan magazine that illustrated quite clearly how much easier Ronald Reagan had it with the Soviet Union, when compared to his failings with his first bride, Jane Wyman (1917 – 2007). The PHOTOPLAY journalist, Gladys Hall, outlined nicely how busy the couple had been up to that time yet remarked that they had had a difficult time since the war ended, breaking-up and reconciling as many as three times. In 1948 Wyman, who had been married twice before, filed for divorce on charges of mental cruelty; the divorce was finalized in ’49 and the future president went on to meet Nancy Davis in 1951 (marrying in ’52); click here if you wish to read a 1951 article about that courtship.


Historically, Ronald Reagan was the first divorced man to ascend the office of the presidency. Shortly after his death in 2004, Wyman remarked:

America has lost a great president and a great, kind, and gentle man.


Click here read an article about Hollywood’s war on monogamy.

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A Spy Within the CPUSA (Pathfinder Magazine, 1949)
1949, Pathfinder Magazine, Spies

A Spy Within the CPUSA
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1949)

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These seven paragraphs from THE PATHFINDER magazine served to introduce their readers to Herbert Philbrick (1915 – 1993) and his efforts to expose the subversive elements within the Communist Party U.S.A..


For nine years Philbrick labored as an F.B.I. mole deep within the Cambridge Youth Council, the Young Communist League and the CPUSA until he made good his resignation by serving as a surprise government witness at a conspiracy trial in which numerous high profile American Reds were indicted (among them William Z. Foster, Eugene Dennis, Robert George Thompson, Gus Hall, Henry Winston, and ex-New York councilmember Benjamin Davis).

Highlights of Soviet Espionage: 1949 - 1953 (People Today, 1953)
1953, People Today Magazine, Spies

Highlights of Soviet Espionage: 1949 – 1953
(People Today, 1953)

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Well-illustrated, pithy and informative, this article will get you up to speed on some of the espionage triumphs of the Soviet GRU (the military intelligence arm of the former worker’s paradise). The article refers to where their agents trained before their American and Canadian deployments, what they were taught, and how big the GRU was. Of even greater interest were the parts of the article that referred to their Atomic spies and the variety of traitors and turncoats they were able to attract.

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Artist of the Ashcan School: John Sloan (Touchstone Magazine, 1919)
1919, Modern Art, Touchstone Magazine

Artist of the Ashcan School: John Sloan
(Touchstone Magazine, 1919)

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The editors of TOUCHSTONE MAGAZINE hired one of John Sloanstyle=border:none‘s (1871-1951) groupies to interview him for one of their feature articles. It is an informative interview and there are a number of seldom seen sketches reproduced; the opening paragraphs give one a sense of what 1920s Greenwich Village was like at night, although one comes away feeling that the man could do no wrong. John Sloan’s friend, Robert Henristyle=border:none (1865-1929), when given the chance also failed to make any nasty comments about the painter.

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