The Bonus March
The commanding general believed the situation was well in hand; he would continue his advance towards the river and save his nation from disaster....
The Lindberghs’ Summer Excursion Part 1
By 1931 Charles Lindbergh had acquired the aura of the world’s greatest aviator and hero. He had also acquired a young wife, and one...
The World of Tomorrow in a World Gone Mad
On April 28, 1939, Adolf Hitler stood on the podium of the German Reichstag. In front of Hitler sat his Nazi sycophants; behind and...
America’s First Winter Olympics
Fear and apprehension gripped the officials at Lake Placid, New York, on the afternoon of February 4, 1932. Even New York’s governor, although grinning...
Musical Chairs Part 2
In 1941, James Caesar Petrillo, the outspoken president of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), commissioned a study to determine whether the use of...
Musical Chairs Part 1
Something was missing from the radio air waves on January 1, 1941 — the music of Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, the Gershwins and hundreds...
Seabiscuit’s Triple Crown
During the 1930s the great horse Seabiscuit won races. Now in the twenty-first century the famous thoroughbred’s chroniclers have brought home an entertainment triple...
Happy Franksgiving?
Toward the end of the 1942 movie Holiday Inn staring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire (this movie introduced Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas”), a November...
V-J Day: The Greatest Celebration
The celebrations on V-E Day, May 8, 1945, were spontaneous and joyful, yet everyone knew the victory over Hitler gave the world only partial...
Sellin’ Apples
“When we started this thing at the beginning of National Apple Week we had no idea it would expand in this way,” said Joseph...