Review of Kaiser Wilhelm’s Memoir
Not surprisingly, the British magazine Spectator printed a terribly dry and unsympathetic review of My Memoirs by Kaiser Willhelm II […]
“We Gave the Red Army Its Speed”
Leo Thomas Crowley (1889 – 1972) was a senior administrator for FDR as the head of the Foreign Economic Administration, and in this Newsweek editorial it recalls a time late in the war when he let-loose some steam having felt that the British and Americans were not getting enough credit for building up the strength of Stalin’s military.
American Ski Troops
There were many different new types of personnel the U.S. military had to train and deploy if they were to
Ike’s Boys
When this article appeared in print the war in Europe had been over for three and a half months. Nonetheless,
1938, Women Pilots
The Triumphs of Pilot Jacqueline Cochran
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More Letters from the German Home Front
“The information in letters found on the German dead, intimate and personal as it is, leads to some striking deductions.
‘Its a Wonderful Life’ – the Synopsis
Lovingly ripped from the binding of a 1947 issue of Photoplay Magazine was the attached thumbnail It’s a Wonderful Life, written in the form of a favorable plot synopsis. Oddly, the film was released in March of 1947 – long after Christmas.
Opinions on the Early Home Front
“The pre-Pearl Harbor issue has been liquidated, not because of an act of national will power. It had faded before
Stockings for Movie Stars
$2,500.00 stockings, anyone? (in today’s currency, that would be $41,519.00) This is the story of Hollywood’s go-to-guy for outrageously priced,
1933, Prohibition History, Uncategorized
Post-Repeal Fears
“The Eighteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution made the criminal career pay – for the first time, perhaps, in the
1943, Child Labor
Child Labor During W.W. II
“Throughout the land, child labor is making a comeback as already inadequate laws buckle under pressure of fraudulent appeals to
American Leviathan
“It is the purpose of this article to show how in three years we have broken the shackles of all