History Unfolded: US Newspapers and the Holocaust

Headline: On Broadway
Sub-Headline: Private Papers Of A Cub Reporter

Publication Date: Wednesday, February 15, 1939
Historical Event: American Nazis Rally in New York City
This database includes 1,208 articles about this event
Tags: Gannett full page downloadable; Public Responses in America; Racism and Antisemitism in America
Article Type: Editorial or Opinion Piece
Newspaper: Nevada State Journal
Location: Reno, Nevada
Page Section and Number: 4
Author/Byline: Walter Winchell
Article Text: Chicago has okayed wife-slapping...No, no, dissents a Philly magistrate. Now Maryland wants to hoosegow all biffing husbands for one year...Most households, however, have their own law on the matter, which is: Papa swings at his own risk...So colossal a movie as "Gone With the Wind" had to have a very impressive ceremony to mark the starting of the filming...So the inaugural rite was the ousting from the set of Frank Nugent, movie critic for the N. Y. Times...Virgino Gayda, who parrots all of Duce's tough talk in his editorials, is being spanked in the Brazilian papers for his slams at Pres. Roosevelt...That's a little unjust on Charlie McGayda. He doesn't know what's going to come out when Benito Bergen starts working that slick in the back.
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The Ratzis are going to celebrate George Washington's Birthday at Madison Square Garden—claiming G.W. to be the nation's first Fritz Kuhn...There must be some mistake. Don't they mean Benedict Arnold?
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You may recall the story here last week about the character called "Wingy" who won $11,000 (starting with $4) at Miami gaming casinos—before they were shuttered…Wingy rated space here because he gave away $4000 the winnings to friends who were in need...We met him again last night ..."Hey," he hey'd, "you know that $4 I ran up to $11,000? Well, here's another scoop. I won that $1000 back to $4 again."
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Erie Robert, wife of Chip Robert, the Sec'y of the Democratic National Committee, is veddy social in Washington and environs, if you please...Not so long ago she was the house guest of a dowager in the Virginia hills...Arriving late at night—Evie got up at dawn, donned her shoddiest looking fishing attire and went fishing without meeting the new butler...Later that day she returned looking a mess—and toting a long line of big fish…”Here,” she said to the new butler at the front door, "put these in the kitchen!"..."The tradesmen's entrance," he said stiffly, "is to the rear!"..."Lissen here you soandso [sic]," intoned La Robert flavoring her speech with profanity, "I'll have you understand that I'M A LADY!"
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Every visitor to the White House invariably inquires about the room in which Lincoln slept ...Col. Mclntyre, the sec'y to FDR, you'd imagine, would know more about that room than most people...The other day a friend of the column visited the White House and Mclntyre was entertaining him until the President was through with another caller... "Where's the Lincoln Room?" the visitor asked the presidential secretary: "Damfino!" was the Believe-It-Or-Not retort!
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The Feb. 4th number of The Nation remarks: "It takes temerity to disagree with omniscience, but a sense of virtue lends us to courage. On Monday Walter Winchell announced in his most categorical manner: “The editors of The Nation have checked and learned that their recent blast at Ambassador Kennedy (for being anti this or that) was one hundred percent wrong.' In equally clear terms we must assert that Mr. Winchell Is one hundred percent wrong. The Nation's dispatch describing Ambassador Kennedy's apathetic attitude toward the refugee problem was written by an experienced correspondent who had every opportunity to know the facts. And the facts as he gave them have never been refuted."...Well, we are glad to reprint The Nation’s reply.
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But it is also true beyond dispute and capable of complete verification that friends of The Nation who doubted the accuracy of the article (which appeared several months ago) made it their business to get the facts in London concerning Ambassador Kennedy's activities in connection with the refugee problem. They have learned that Mr. Kennedy has been both active and effective in securing the cooperation of the British government for help for the German refugees and has brought to bear the influence of the United States government and the force of his own personality upon the British government to this end. Furthermore, Mr. Rublee has also publicly denied accuracy of the article in The Nation ...Now, will The Nation reprint that?
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There's a new and enjoyable air show emanating from Hollywood ...It is called "Hall of Fun"...It kids radio, among other novelties ...One of its recent belittlings kidded these lengthy lists of credits that start most feature flickers—and the trailers of forthcoming films ...For "Jesse James" frixample, one line was: "You'll be so thrilled with 'Jesse James' that you'll walk right out of the theatre and stick up the box-office!" …Another was: "Miss Frances Hunt sang 'You're a Sweet Little Headache’ from the headache of the same name!" ...That's good chuckling—and rates a sponsor.
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This actually happened, they say, in one of those de luxe sandwich shops ...Dick Todd ordered soup, chicken pie, buttered toast and coffee. After the meal he asked the waitress what he had to pay ..."Want dessert?" she said ..."No," said Todd, "I couldn't eat another bite" …To which the waitress bit on her pencil and paused to think …"Well," she finally said, "if you don't have dessert I'll have to charge you a la carte—that's 75 cents. But if you have dessert that comes under the Special Luncheon, and that's only 60 cents"...So Dick ordered butter-scotch pudding. messed it up a bit with a spoon, laid down 60 cents and trucked on down!
History Unfolded Contributor: Patricia P.
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