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| General Patton's Prayer for Battle Weather (Faith Is Power For You, 1950) The attached paragraphs tell the story of General Patton's famous prayer for battle weather - who authored it and how many men recited it. "That prayer [and the accompanying Christmas] greeting were typically Patton. They [read as if they] were [pulled] from the Old Testament rather than the New and had the ring of Joshua and David at their militant best.They were not written for a soft time but for their occasion; they were words to make men strong - and they did." FDR's D-Day prayer can be read here |
| Sam Rosenman: FDR's Right Arm (Coronet Magazine, 1944) Samuel Rosenman (1896 – 1973) was an attorney, judge and a highly placed insider within the ranks of the Democratic Party, both in Albany and the nation's capital. It was Rosenman who helped articulated many of FDR's policies, wrote numerous executive orders and conceived of the moniker "New Deal". He was the first lawyer to hold the position White House Counsel and he was an indispensable advisor to Roosevelt throughout the course of his New York governorship as well as his presidency. |
| The Decline of Masculine Elegance (Vogue Magazine, 1922) A Parisienne with a good many thoughts regarding menswear goes to some length to impart that men are dressing worse, not better, and the substitution of the dinner jacket (read: "Tuxedo") for the tail-coat is an example of the slovenliness to come. "You are entirely wrong in imagining that we pay no attention to the way men dress...The truth is that while we may say nothing, we do not in the least consent, and we find, messieurs, that for some time now you have been very much changed, and for the worse." Click here to read about the fashion legacy of W.W. I... To read about one of the fashion legacies of W.W. II, click here... Click here to read about the origins of the T-shirt. |
| Henry Travers as 'Clarence the Guardian Angel' (Stage Magazine, 1937) Ten years prior to being cast in the roll as George Baily's guardian angel, "Clarence", the actor Henry Travers (1874 – 1965) appeared in the Broadway play You Can't Take It With You. Playing the part of "Grandpa Sycamore", he was singled out for praise by the editors of Stage Magazine; the review is attached herein. |
| Women Behind the Guns (Assorted Magazines, 1942) When it became clear to the employers on the American home front that there was going to be a shortage of men, their attention turned to a portion of the labor pool who had seldom been allowed to prove their mettle: they were called women. This article recalls those heady days at the U.S. Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground when local women were trained to fire enormous artillery pieces in order that the Army weapons specialists understand the gun's capabilities. This column primarily concerns the delight on all the men's faces when it was discovered that women were able to perform their tasks just as well as the men. Click here to read about what was involved in training a WAAC. |
| ''I'm No Communist'' (Photoplay Magazine, 1948) Months after his appearance as a spectator at the House Committee on Un-American Activities, actor Humphrey Bogart wrote this article for the editors of Photoplay Magazine addressing the topic of communist infiltration in the Hollywood film industry: "In the final analysis, this House Committee probe has had one salutary effect. It has cleared the air by indicating what a minute number of Commies there really are in the film industry. Though headlines may have screamed of the Red menace in the movies, all the wind and the fury actually proved that there's been no Communism injected on American movie screens." |
| There was Illegal Immigration from Mexico Back Then, Too (Ken Magazine, 1938) This 1938 magazine article can be filed in the "the more things change, the more they stay the same folder". It lists all the assorted means by which Mexicans have attempted to illegally cross over the Southern border, whether to smuggle others, import illegal drugs or for their own gratification. Marijuana was becoming a problem in 1938, too. Read about it here. Click here to read about the U.S. Border Patrol. |
| The Border Patrol (Collier's Magazine, 1940) This article lays out the many responsibilities and challenges that made up the day of a U.S. Border Patrol officer stationed along the Rio Grande in 1940: "In one month these rookies must try to absorb French and Spanish, immigration law, criminal law, naturalization, citizenship and expatriation law, fingerprinting, criminal investigation, first aid, firearms and the laws of the open country through which refugees are tracked down in the desert and forest." Click here to read a 1937 article about the illeagal immigrants who came through Ellis Island. |
| ''Daughters of Valor'' (American Legion Monthly, 1939) Here is an interesting history of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during the First World War. The author, Robert Ginsburgh, delves into how many nurses served, how many were killed, how they were recruited and trained, where they served in Europe, and the decorations they earned. |
| ''The Nisei Problem'' (Yank Magazine, 1945) An interesting article, written with a sense of embarrassment regarding the injustice done to the Japanese-Americans, and published a few weeks shy of VJ-Day. The article reports on how the former internment camp families were faring after they were released from their incarceration. 55,000 Japanese-Americans chose to remain in the camps rather than walk freely among their old neighbors; one man, Takeyoshi Arikawa, a former produce dealer, remarked: "I would like to take my people back home, but there are too many people in Los Angeles who would resent our return. These are troubled times for America. Why should I cause the country any more trouble?" |
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