Modern American History (Brief)

Modern American History (in Brief) ----------------/\/\/---------------- [all info from Wikipedia, unless otherwise marked] The New Yorker American magazine published by Condé Nast established 1925 by:  Jane Grant & husband Harold Ross (journalist) with backing of:  yeast heir Raoul Fleischmann ----------------/\/\/---------------- Peter F. Fleischmann former president & chairman of THE NEW YORKER MAGAZINE died.  1993, age 71 served as officer of THE NEW YORKER for 32 years his father:  Raoul H. Fleischmann Jewish immigrant to US, from Austria founded Fleischmann yeast company the financial backer who co-founded TNY & its first president, chairman & publisher editorial independence (ie business vs. editorial functions) claimed 1985 - control of The New Yorker sold to:  Advance Publications (Samuel I Newhouse) http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/18/obituaries/peter-fleischmann-71-who-led-the-new-yorker-into-the-1980-s.html " ... Raoul Fleischmann, "urbane, Jewish, rich", who happened to be bankrolling a new magazine, the New Yorker." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/jan/28/featuresreviews.guardianreview9 ----------------/\/\/---------------- The New Yorker in addition to focus on cultural life of NYC, covers: topical material provides on pop culture publishes literary reviews covers politics and 'social issues' Harold Ross, US journalist-editor b. 1892 reportedly of Scots-Irish heritage due to collapse of price in silver:  family moved - Colorado to Utah as a high schooler, stringer for The Salt Lake Tribune at 13 dropped out of school & ran away to Denver worked for The Denver Post later returned to Utah:  job at Salt Lake Telegram, small daily at 25 years, had worked for 7 different newspapers Georgia:  covered trial of Leo Frank murder WWI:  enlisted engineers railway regiment France:  edited regimental journal & worked for Stars & Stripes edited every issue of The New Yorker from the first until his death (1925-1951) Jane Grant (wife), NYC journalist co-founder of:  The New Yorker with Harold Ross (husband) b. Joplin, Missouri raised:  Girard, Kansas NYC at 16 to pursing singing but joined staff to:  THE NEW YORK TIMES 'society department' close friends with critic:  Alexander Woollcott covered: 'women's issues' questioned public figures re status of women interviewed women working in traditional male professions wrote for the Times for 15 years WWI:  joined troopship to France with YMCA as singer/dancer joined American Red Cross entertained soldiers, Paris & camps Woollcott introduced her to 'Vicious Circle' members in France later 'Vicious Circle' became:  Algonquin Round Table married Harold Ross 1920 WWII, Jane Grant produced special overseas issue of The New Yorker for US armed forces WWII, Jane Grant wrote for several magazines Jane Grant  produced 'feminist' essays, discussing 'discriminatory' laws & practices active in feminist causes reactivated the Lucy Stone League, expanding purpose active in 'women's rights' into 1960s advocating Equal Rights Amendment 1921, Jane Grant co-ounded Lucy Stone League,  with Ruth Hale Ruth Hale, feminist, journalist, born Tennessee feature writer:  The New York Times, Vogue, Vanity Fair 1917, married Heywood Broun, journalist & founder of The Newspaper Guild Heywood Broun Brooklyn-born champion of underdog & writer on 'social issues' believed journalists could correct wrongs, esp. social ills 1930, Broun ran for Congress as a Socialist (lost) a member of:   Algonquin Round Table close friend of the Marx Brothers Ruth Hale 1921, took stand against US STATE DEPARTMENT demanding she be issued a passport as 'Ruth Hale' (not 'Mrs Heywood Broun') USG refused / married women were not given passports in maiden name eventually USG issued passport: 'Ruth Hale, aka Mrs Heywood Broun' Ruth Hale & her husband made a show then cancelling their trip to France 1921, first woman to be issued with a real estate deed in her own name for apartment house Upper West Side long-time friend of Newman Levy, writer & lawyer, NY District DA Newman Levy socialized with New York's literary elite appointed as president of the Lucy Stone League Rose Falls Bres to serve as legal counsel Bres became president of National Association of Women Lawyers Bres was Hale's lawyer during melodrama with State Dept. Heywood Broun indulged his wife Lucy Stone League: - Jane Grant, wife of Harold Ross, The New Yorker - Ruth Hale, wife of Heywood Broun - Rose Falls Bres, legal counsel - Beatrice Kaufman, wife of playwright George S. Kaufman Ruth Hale 1927, leading role in protest of execution of - anarchists - accused murderers:  Sacco & Vanzetti - 1920s & 1930s, wrote & worked as a theatrical press agent. - Ruth Hale leading figure in NY literary circles - associate of the Algonquin Round Table Algonquin Round Table New York intelligentsia initially gathered as 'The Vicious Circle' for lunch each day at:  Alogonquin Hotel 1919 to 1929 their 'witty' table talk was then disseminated by national US press as members had regular newspaper columns bringing Round Tablers widely into the public consciousness PRESS WAS ALWAYS BITCHY: Groucho Marx, brother of Round Table associate, Harpo Marx: "The price of admission is a serpent's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto." INTELLIGENTSIA WAS ALWAYS FULL OF CRAP:  Dorothy Parker: "The Round Table was just a lot of people telling jokes and telling each other how good they were." ----------------/\/\/---------------- But their cocktails sound OK ... The Algonquin     1 1/2 ounces Rye Whiskey     3/4 ounces Dry Vermouth     3/4 ounces pineapple juice Stir the rye, dry vermouth and pineapple juice together with ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and add two to three drops of orange bitters. [source] ----------------/\/\/---------------- The Vicious Circle initial lunch proposed by theatrical press agent: John Peter Toohey (as joke) annoyed that Alexander Woollcott refused to promote a client lunch was staged as a welcome-back from WWI to Woollcott lunch was like a 'roast' & Woollcott was target of humour Woollcott enjoyed joke & being centre of attention prompted JOHN PETER TOOHEY to suggest daily Algonquin lunch first gatherings:  Pergola Room (later 'Oak Room') later moved to Rose Room with round table Group initially called selves 'The Board' & lunches were 'Board meetings' members of Round Table:  journalism crossed with entertainment ----------------/\/\/---------------- Stars & Stripes established 1861 during American Civil War in Bloomfield Missouri what data remains is associated with museum/library in Bloomfield but there is no connection between this Stars & Stripes publication & the one of same name today Current Stars and Stripes publication is authorized by Congress & US Department of Defence daily military news & info is distributed at U.S. military installations in Europe, Middle-east & East Asia only partially subsidized by the Department of Defence large portion of operating costs are obtained through: - sale of advertising - sale of subscriptions Stars & Stripes (unique among military publications) operates as a First Amendment newspaper is part of NEWLY FORMED DEFENCE MEDIA ACTIVITY ('DMA') other entities involved in today's Stars & Stripes include: the DOD News Channel Armed Forces Radio & Television Service ----------------/\/\/---------------- Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) amendment to US constitution to grant equal rights to women ORIGINALLY WRITTEN BY: ALICE PAUL (Quaker origins) & CRYSTAL EASTMAN Alice Paul - major role in adding protection to women in CIVIL RIGHTS ACT (1964) - prohibition on sex discrimination added by Virginia Democrat, Howard W. Smith - Equal Rights Amendment SPONSORED FOR TWENTY (20) YEARS by Howard W. Smith ----------------/\/\/---------------- THE RAPIST OF GERMAN INTERESTS (& THEREFORE OF EUROPEAN INTERESTS) ... IS A 'FEMINIST' - Howard W. Smith - b. Virginia 1883 - segregationist (ie white/black) - public schools & BETHEL MILITARY ACADEMY, VIRGINIA - law at University Virginia, Charlottesville - practised in ALEXANDRIA VIRGINIA - WWI, assistant general counsel to:  Federal Alien Property Custodian - Fed. Alien Property Custodian office in USG WWI & WWII - a custodian of ENEMY PROPERTY belonging to enemies of US - first appointment by Woodrow Wilson, WWI - seizure, administration, sometimes sale of enemy property in USA - governed by TRADING WITH THE ENEMY ACT - first appointee:  A. Mitchell Palmer, law & banking background - EMPLOYED HUNDREDS OF US GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS - by late 1918, managing almost 30,000 trusts with assets of HALF A BILLION DOLLARS 1918, Mitchell Palmer testifies at US Senate Overman Committee - that United States Brewers Association hearing - & REST OF OVERWHELMINGLY GERMAN LIQUOR INDUSTRY - were pro-German & had attempted to buy a newspaper to:     - 'control the government of State & Nation'     - were 'unpatriotic'     - had 'pro-German sympathies' AMERICAN CAPITALIST APPROPRIATION OF EUROPEAN ASSETS Mitchell Palmer:  campaigned successfully to have his powers to dispose of assets by sale TO:   counter Germany's long-term plan to 'conquer' world by industrial expansion post WWI * auctions rigged by withholding information from all participants * even after Germany WWI surrender, Palmer insisted on continuing his campaign to rid USA industry of German investment * resulted in, eg:  1919 major sales in the metals industry ----------------/\/\/---------------- No limits, eh? ... Oh, the Hypocrisy Mitchell Palmer: "The war power is of necessity an inherent power in every sovereign nation. It is the power of self-reservation and that power has no limits other than the extent of the emergency." ----------------/\/\/---------------- US CAPITALIST THIEVES USG also sold off assets of German Bayer chemical company by auction and stripped it of its US patent for Asprin WWII, 1942 Franklin D Roosevelt EO9095 establishes OFFICE OF THE ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN ('APC') as independent agency under direct presidential authority appointed:  LEO CROWLEY, former banker & chair of FED. DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORP APC amassed VAST PORTFOLIO OF ENEMY PROPERTY, incl: real estate business enterprises ships intellectual property (trademarks, copyrights, patents & incl. pending) As APC only abolished 1966, under Lyndon B. Johnson, JUST IMAGINE THE SIZE OF THE ASSETS THAT THE AMERICAN CAPITALISTS STOLE A. Mitchell Palmer US Attorney General 1919-1921 overseer of 'Palmer Raids':  Red Scare 1919-20 aligned with progressive wing of Democratic Party advocated lower tariffs, despite popularity of tariffs in home district & state principal author:  detailed tariff schedules Mitchell Palmer argued: tariffs profited business and had no benefit for workers *denounced by Republican as:  MOST RADICAL DEPARTURE IN DIRECTION OF FREE TRADE THAT HAS BEEN PROPOSED IN 70 YEARS Mitchell Palmer continued to lower tariffs in protected economic sectors (eg wool industry) contributed to:  Underwood Tariff Act of 1913 key role in holding Pennsylvania Democratic delegation together in voting for Woodrow Wilson offered offered Secretary of War position in Woodrow cabinet MITCHELL DECLINED:  CITING QUAKER BELIEFS & HERITAGE ----------------/\/\/---------------- Quakers ... the Ultimate American Cucks? Christian Cucks of Yesteryear -------------------- Quakers believed all people, including women, were equal before a non-existent deity IMMIGRATION ACT OF 1918 - expanded definition of aliens that could be deported ----------------/\/\/---------------- 'Red Scare'   = term re fear of & reaction against communist radicals in USA immediately after WWI:  strikes, race riots in over 30 cities - two sets of bombings 1919 - bombs x2 on Mitchell Palmer's home - linked to anarchists, associated with Luigi Galleani - miraculously both attacks on Mitchell Palmer failed - either anarchists are incompetent or this is bullsh*t - 1919 saw 36 dynamite-filled bombs mailed to leading figures - incl. justice officials, newspaper editors & businessmen, plus John D. Rockefeller - Mitchell Palmer recruited:   J. Edgar Hoover, law graduate, DOJ Enemy Alien Bureau - Michael Palmer report to USG re:  anarchist and Bolshevik threat to USG - over half report documented RADICALISM OF US BLACKS - black open defiance, advocated in response to racial violence & rioting Red Summer (1919) HUNDREDS OF DEATHS & CASUALTIES ACROSS USA - RACE RIOTS THREE DOZEN CITIES:  whites attacked blacks mostly blacks fought back - Chicago notable result of post WWI demobilisation & number of social tensions in era of labour unrest, where industrialists USED BLACKS AS STRIKEBREAKERS increasing resentment riots extensively documented in press US federal govt feared SOCIALIST & COMMUNIST influence on BLACK CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT following Bolshevik Revolution (Russia) US capitalist-serving government feared foreign anarchists, who had bombed homes & businesses of US oligarchy & govt leaders WWI mobilisation & cessation of immigration from Europe US industrial cities = SEVERE LABOUR SHORTAGES (north & midwest) NORTHERN MANUFACTURERS RECRUITED FROM SOUTH EXODUS ENSUED 1919 EST. 500,000 BLACKS EMIGRATED FROM SOUTHERN USA in first wave of GREAT MIGRATION that continued to 1940 blacks filled new positions in growing industries:     - eg. railroads plus jobs formerly held by whites blacks hired as strikebreakers in some cities, exp. strikes of 1917 white working-class resentment post WWI demobilisation & removal of price controls = resulted in UNEMPLOYMENT + INFLATION, increasing job competition 38 separate riots in widely scattered cities, in which whites attacked blacks - unlike earlier US race riots, 1919 first in which blacks in number rested white attacks - 1919, white mobs lynched at least 43 blacks     - mainly shot     - 16 hanged     - 08 burned at stake - Charleston, South Carolina:  martial law imposed - US Navy sailors (black) led race riot:  all killed - misc. black and white killed & injured - various deaths etc. listed 1919-20 - after Russian Revolution anti-Bolshevik sentiment in USA reportedly quickly replaced anti-German sentiment of war years - US govt officials - capitalist American press whipped up fear of overthrow of US government to create a Soviet-modelled regime - black advocacy of racial equality & labour rights & mob victim right to defend /  viewed with alarm Woodrow Wilson:   "the American Negro returning from abroad would be our greatest medium in conveying Bolshevism to America." Dr. George E. Haynes Negro Economics for the U.S. Department of Labor "The return of the Negro soldier to civil life is one of the most delicate and difficult questions confronting the Nation, north and south." black WWI veteran, Chicago, advocating that the demobilised US blacks require only instruction and leadership to fulfil their potential American Pogroms Dr. George Edmund Haynes 1919 report, published New York Times & other major press Haynes noted lynchings were a national problem Woodrow Wilson:  1889–1918 over 3,000 lynched (2,472 black) white men had been lynched in the North, as well lynchings connected to widespread riots of 1919 Connection between blacks and Bolshevism media dispersal: Wall Street Journal: "Race riots seem to have for their genesis a Bolshevist, a Negro, and a gun." USG provided the Times with evidence of Bolshevist propaganda appealing to America's black communities Times described newspapers, magazines, and "so-called 'negro betterment' organizations" as avenue for propaganda aimed at blacks re:  "doctrines of Lenin and Trotzky" Times cited a call for unionisation (article above): "Negroes must form cotton workers' unions. Southern white capitalists know that the Negroes can bring the white bourbon South to its knees."   New York Times, 1919 headline:  "Trouble Traced to Socialist Agitators" J Edgar Hoover was Chief of Radical Division in US Dept. of Justice {J EDGAR HOOVER founded the American political police:  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) & was head of its precursor, Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Investigations} DOJ informs press that during Chicago riot:   IWW and Bolsheviks were "spreading propaganda to breed race hated" ----------------/\/\/---------------- IWW = Industrial Workers of the World - here INTERNATIONAL LABOUR UNION  HQ Chicago members:  known as 'Wobblies' ties to both SOCIALIST & ANARCHIST labour movements promotes ONE BIG UNION  contends all workers should be united together AS A CLASS to supplant capitalism 1924 schism, from which no full recovery [bet it was USG-engineered] IWW achieved many short-term goals, esp. US mid-west membership declined during US govt crackdown FBI agents filed reports that leftist views winning converts in black community J Edgar Hoover blamed July Washington, D.C., riots on "numerous assaults committed by Negroes upon white women." J Edgar Hoover accused socialists of feeding propaganda to black-owned magazines J Edgar Hoover authorized the hiring of black undercover agents to spy on black orgs & publications in Harlem COMMENT:  I'm going to guess that the American capitalist controlled political police probably WHIPPED UP tensions between whites & blacks, WHIPPED UP violence, infiltrated, probably actively 'radicalised' blacks themselves, & WHIPPED UP black unionism, planted materials etc, to then blame unionism on the INHERENT PROBLEMS OF (A) USA SOCIETY & (B) CAPITALISM:  on SOCIALISM, and thereby conveniently destroy chance of rise of socialism or socialist policy in America, so that the CAPITALIST can gorge on PROFITS off the backs working Americans, unchallenged in any significant way.  As in, create BIG DRAMA & then blame deaths, bombings etc on socialism .... but it was probably all false flags of the capitalists' US political police.  I don't know this, but I am guessing this would have happened.  LOL J Edgar Hoover headed, DOJ General Intelligence Division (GID) storehouse of info on radicals in USA had infiltrated many orgs 1919 & 1920 raids conducted - thousands arrested & interrogated publications & records seized GID officials told Mitchell Palmer radicals were planning to overthrow US govt on May Day 1920 with J Edgar Hoover's backing, Mitchell Palmer then warns the public to expect:  assassinations, bombings, general strikes said domestic US radicals in direct connection & unison with European counterparts police forces and militias mobilised in cities/states New York City 11,000-man police force worked for 32 hours straight Boston police mounted machine guns on vehicles & positioned them around Boston CIVIL RIGHTS ACT 1964 Fast-forward to 1964:  described as:  burning national issue was civil rights for blacks Liberals argued that 1964 was 'the Negro's hour' & said women should wait their turn, but National Woman's Party found a way to include gender protection into legislation ------------  info above from Wikipedia (unless otherwise marked), incl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Hale_%28feminist%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heywood_Broun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Hale_%28feminist%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newman_Levy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquin_Round_Table https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Paul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_W._Smith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Mitchell_Palmer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Alien_Property_Custodian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Summer_%281919%29 COMMENT Any challengers of American CAPITALIST power can expect:  merciless state force against challengers by US militarised police, on behalf of CAPITALIST OWNERS OF US GOVERNMENT. Just look at what they were capable of doing at the turn of last century. A. Mitchell Palmer sounds like a capitalist puppet of his day.  The American capitalist oligarchy and their suppression of the masses sound like what they'd point to as:   Czarist Russian oppression. This summary isn't complete.  There's annoying loose ends.  It's just what I looked at today.   But now I've been interrupted and my equilibrium and concentration has been disturbed, so this is it for a slice of modern America. Amazing I even got this far. Feeling really depressed today. *Having trouble with the word: 'Algonquin' Algonquin Canadian French, from Maliseet (indigenous Wabanaki Confederacy) elakómkwik, they are our relatives. Note, it is not:  "they are our diversity."