Month: February 2019
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Sport Recrudescence on Heels of Army Training
World War I, though horrendous, brought a silver lining: young men who had become physically fit during military service now had unprecedented interest levels in exercise and sports. Maybe a World War III would solve America’s current obesity crisis? Athletic activity during the coming season should set a new mark in American sports. Army life […]
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Shall We Deport the Interned Aliens?
Several thousand Germans and Austrians were interned during World War I, suspected of being agents or spies. ANow that the war had ended a few months prior, it was time for most of them to be released: But the department believes that the greater number of the persons now behind the wire fences should be […]
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Memorial Temple Under Way in Washington
What went wrong with the planned National Victory Memorial Building? The hall with a 7,000 seat auditorium inside was intended for Washington D.C., at the site of what is now the west building of the National Gallery of Art. The structure was intended to be completely separate from the Washington Monument, even though it was originally […]
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Is the Czar Dead?
Was the czar dead? It was February 1919 and seven months had elapsed since anyone had heard from Russia’s Czar Nicholas II. Turns out, yes: he was executed. The tsar abdicated the throne in March 1917 after the February Revolution, then he and his family were imprisoned in the Ipatiev House. More than a year later […]
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Nicotine Next! Then Abolish Coffee and Tea!
A month after the 18th Amendment banned alcohol, Gerald Van Casteel satirized the push for banning anything which seemed wasteful or excessive, in the name of morals or productivity: namely, banning sleep. I now suggest a reform by prohibition far more fundamental. While we are in the mood to prohibit let there be no half […]
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Why Most American Jews Do Not Favor Zionism
29 years before Israel was founded, Jewish Congressman Julius Kahn (R-CA4) advocated against forming a Jewish state, arguing four main points. Here’s how his four points hold up (or don’t) today. First — It creates a divided allegiance, as between our country and its Stars and Stripes and Zion with its white flag with the […]
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Veteran as Job Hunter
An anonymous Canadian soldier penned this reflection about the difficult transition from life in the trenches of World War I back to the civilian working world. In January 2019 the official veteran unemployment rate was 3.7%, lower than the national unemployment rate of 4.0%. From the February 1919 article, a visceral description of what was then […]
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