The Court
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1937)
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Fully Abdicated
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1936)
“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.”
Justice Willis Van Devanter
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1937)
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
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1937)
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.”
Justice James Clark McReynolds
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1937)
Bingo! Justice James Clark McReynolds was the stick-in-the-mud FDR wished to have disappeared from the court. This journalist observed that McReynolds “seemed to regard himself as the last Bulwark of a social order which Woodrow Wilson deemed too antiquated in 1914”. Indeed, he was cranky and crusty and disliked Jews and black people equally and didn’t seem to care who knew it.
Justice George Sutherland
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1937)
Attached is a three-and-a-half-page summation of Associate Justice George Sutherland and the various cases he heard while sitting on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Land Reform in Occupied Japan
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1945)
“In December 1945, SCAP (Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers) issued a sweeping directive demanding that Japanese peasants be freed from the burden of absentee landlordism, oppressive debt, discriminatory taxation, usury and other evils that had plagued the Japanese peasants for centuries.”
Italian Communism Takes One on the Chin
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1951)
By the time 1951 rolled around, the benefits of the Marshall Plan were hitting on all cylinders throughout Italy, and manufacturing had returned to it’s pre-war levels. The sweet words of Marxism that once had such alure were now falling flat. Although Red candidates had done quite well in 1946, by 1951 they attracted few voters.
Meet Margaret Sanger
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1936)
“Persistence has been characteristic of Mrs. Sanger. Principally because of her long campaign, 235 birth control clinics have been made lawful in the United States…. In 1913 Mrs. Sanger started a magazine called The Women Rebel which was quickly banned by postal authorities. For some time after that she faced trouble, sometimes landing in jail and sometimes being fined.”
The Border-Jumper Problem
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1952)
Using numerous unkind pejoratives throughout his article, this journalist interviewed plenty of farmers and politicians who had many thoughts and observations concerning this question:
“What to do with the thousands of Mexican farm laborers who illegally enter the U.S. each year to harvest South Texas crops.”
Problems with Progressive Education
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1952)
If you thought progressive education was a scourge that existed only in the digital age – you’d be wrong; the apostles of progressive education have simply been able to gain traction in our era where leftism has been enjoying greater momentum. Progressive education policies, intent on preserving the student’s “sense of self” over their genuine education, have been around for decades – and the attached article seems no different from much of the criticism that is leveled at them today.
“Critics of progressive education insist teachers don’t place enough emphasis on achievement in their fear of harming the child’s personality.”
In Search of Trotskyites
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1936)
“Throughout Russia last week Dictator Joseph Stalin continued his ‘purge’ against ‘Trotskyites’.”
“In this natural aftermath of the execution a fortnight ago of 16 conspirators against the Soviet regime, no Trotskyite was spared. Nor was anyone suspected of Trotsky leanings overlooked. Journalists, officials, high-ranking Red Army officers, heads of banks, railroads, publishing houses, and many celebrities in literary and theatrical pursuits felt the heavy hand of the Kremlin government.”
”We Must Be Strong”
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1936)
Knowing his audience well, Il Duce served it up good and raw in this 1936 speech:
“We must be strong. We must be always stronger. We must be so strong that we can face any eventualities.“
Graham Greene
(Pathfinder Magazine, 1948)
Attached is the 1948 review of Graham Greene’s novel, ‘The Heart of the Matter’, as it appeared in Pathfinder Magazine. This work is believed by many to be part of Greene’s “Catholic trilogy” that was numbered with ‘Brighton Rock’ (1938) and ‘The Power and the Glory’ (1940) – although the author shuddered at the thought that he could be labeled as a “Christian writer”.