A busy week, this first one of October in 1949. Strikes were on the agenda – the Steel Industry was hit with its first batch of strikes since 1946. And America was braced for lock-outs, walk-outs and wildcat strikes all over the country. It was learned this week that Russia
One of the greatest military races in the history of the Pacific War was being run in Southern China and the wilds of the China-Burma frontier. On one side are the Japanese armies in the HengyangKweilin-Canton area. They are trying to consolidate the gains in their drive on Kweilin in
News for this September 29, 1944 had much to do with the Allied armies push east, inching across France. American 1st army troops smashed forward Echterbosch forest in a new attack above Aachen today as battles of increasing intensity flared all along the front between Holland and France. Other allied
After World War 2 there was a noticeable upsurge in violence across America. Partly because the crime rate dropped precipitously during the war years 1941-1945 owing to large numbers of youth and young adults serving in the military. Once the war was over it was back to business as usual,
– Fight For Freedom Committee – Oct. 10, 1941 – As a counter-movement to the much publicized, isolationist and German-leaning America First Committee, the Fight For Freedom Committee was organized to end America’s neutrality in the War and to involve us militarily in the fighting then-currently going on. Viewing America’s
The world a year after the end of the War – September 1946; cities and lives were slowly recovering but there was an endless road still ahead. Former New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia/now head of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration went on an inspection trip of European capitols
– CBS Morning News Roundup – August 6, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – – President Truman Announcement of Atomic Bomb drop – Hiroshima – August 6, 1945 – Truman Library-Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 6, 1945 – eighty years ago, the world changed forever. But you wouldn’t
– News for July 31, 1940 – As the Dog Days of Summer and the Nation’s Capitol sweltered for its thirteenth consecutive day, this July 31st in 1940, the news was appropriately sparse, the events were comparatively few and the air-conditioning comparatively rare. Starting with news from London that overnight
Voices And Events for week ending July 24, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A world in a state of upheaval and change, this week ending on this day in 1949. President Truman spoke those words in reaction to the weariness the world was feeling, a mere four years
The 1948 Presidential race was hard fought and hotly contested. Within the ranks of the Democratic Party there was a faction, primarily representing the South, who objected strongly to President Truman’s strong Civil Rights stand. So resentful of the President’s campaign to end racial discrimination in the Armed Forces, end
