The Civil Works Administration was established in 1933 as a part of FDR’s National [Industrial] Recovery Act. It was intended to be a job creation program for construction workers. It met its end as a result of mismanagement a year later and its personnel were swept up and divided between the CCC and the Public Works Administration.
Attached is negative review of the Machine Art exhibit (1934) launched at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Even to this day we find that modernism is one of the most misunderstood art movements of them all, and this anonymous reviewer allows us to understand the thinking of the movement’s detractors.
One month after Lincoln was elected president on November sixth, the delegates gathered in South Carolina for the Secession Convention. The representatives from South Carolina resign from Congress, other Southerners follow. Major Anderson removed his Federal troops from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter.
A printable chronology of the important events that occurred during the first year of the American Civil War: 1861.
In April of 1861 the first gallons of blood begin to pour and as December slowly rolled around, news spreads of a battle fought by one Native American tribe loyal to the Union against another tribe siding with the Rebels. For the next two years the great momentum of the war would be on the side of the Confederacy.
Click here to read about the heavy influence religion had in the Rebel states during the American Civil War.
A printable chronology of the major events that took place during 1862, the second year of the American Civil War.
The high hopes that both sides enjoyed during the previous year had entirely vanished and were replaced instead by a sense of grim determination.
Here is a chronology of the major events that took place during 1863, the bloodiest year of the American Civil War.
This article is about a meeting that the Duke had with his sister, Princess Mary (1897 – 1965) in Vienna two months after his abdication:
“Purpose of the Princess Royal’s visit, withheld officially, was reported to be to discuss with the Duke his future financial position, his prospective marriage to Wallis Warfield Simpson, and the sale of Sandringham, Edward’s country estate in England.”
It was rumored that her true assignment was to persuade him not to marry “that woman”. Although it is not mentioned in the article, it has been said that he agreed to the sum of £25,000 per annum (an agreement he very soon regretted.)
This article explains FDR’s plan for the Court and then goes a good deal deeper. This unnamed journalist pointed out that these frustrations were not new to the executive office. Earlier presidents had similar dustups in 1823, 1869 and 1900.
“Wainwright never had a fighting chance in his last command in the Philippines… But in those last few days he demonstrated his fine soldiery demeanor, leadership, courage, and resourcefulness.”
“The Fall of Corregidor (May 6, 1942) marked the end of an epic fight that won acclaim from Allied leaders the world over. The most heartfelt tribute came from Gen. MacArthur in Australia: ‘… But through the bloody haze of the last reverberating shot I shall always seem to see the vision of its grim, gaunt and ghostly men, still unafraid.'”
The attached photo first appeared in a 1918 issue of Great War Magazine and pictures the Brandt Grenade-Thrower. Designed in
History’s ancient example of camouflage, the Trojan horse, has a modern twist in this illustrated article. The journalist reported that at some undated point earlier in the war the French had a chance to set a mock horse-carcass between the opposing trenches and use it as an observation post.
Four years after Pearl Harbor, the editors of the Japanese newspaper Asahi gazed out of the windows from their offices and saw the charred remains of their enemy-occupied homeland and recognized that they’d made a fatal mistake:
We once more refresh our horror at the colossal crime committed and are filled with a solemn sense of reflection and self-reproach…
“In a fast traveling automobile, Edward, no longer a king but still wealthy with a reputed income of $5000,000 a year, sped to Portsmouth, England. Accompanying him into exile were only his loyal equerry, Col. Piers Legh; his private detective, David Storier; a valet and a pet Cairn terrier. Leaving the auto, the party went aboard the warship Fury which immediately steamed for Boulogne in France.”
This article reported on a nasty event that took place in Germany between June 30 and July 2, 1934 and it has come to be known as “the Night of long knives”. In the immediate aftermath, the Western press had a hard time figuring it out, but the long and short of it revealed that Hitler had killed a good many of his political rivals and consolidated his power.
The attached article was written by FDR himself, and in it he explains the ‘court crises’ (as he called it) quite clearly. On page five, he eloquently lays out his plan for the Supreme Court.
When FDR sat down and planned whose voice on the Supreme Court he would most like to nullify, it wasn’t always that of Justice Van Devanter. Although Willis Van Devanter was a conservative, he was a thoughtful jurist who was known to, from time-to-time, vote in support of some of the New Deal legislation.
Justice Pierce Butler “was born in a log hut near Northfield, Minn., on St. Patrick’s Day, 1866… Butler believes in few laws and little regulation because he himself grew up under a system of every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost.”
