Photo of the Day -- weekend

No. 430

1935. Left: February 1935 Vogue cover. Right: Esquire Magazine, September 1935, with"Notes on the Next War," by Ernest Hemingway. From Hemingway's essay: "War is no longer made by simply analysed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule."

1935. Left: The Best Film Oscar went to “Mutiny on the Bounty,” starring Clark Gable and Charles Laughton. Right: “Little House on the Prairie,” by Laura Ingalls Wilder, was one of the most popular books published that year.

1935. Left: Boys sit in their one-room schoolhouse in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. Right: Chevy Chase (MD) High School.

1935. Left: advertisement for Quaker Oats featuring the Dionne Quints, the first set of quintuplets to survive infancy. Born in Ontario in 1934, all five girls survived into adulthood. Center: advertisement for the new Frigidaire refrigerator with an upgraded freezer compartment. Right: breakfast on the cross-country train to San Francisco.

1935. Left: the kitchen in the home of Bud Fields, Hale County, AL. Right: actor Gary Cooper in the Trophy Room of his Los Angeles home.

1935. Left: Adolph Hitler, Chancellor of Germany since 1933, salutes Nazi SS officers. Right: Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, attends a regional farming conference. Stalin's agricultural policies in Ukraine, which had killed 4 million through starvation and disease (Holodomor), had come to an end, and his policy of "Russification" was obliterating traces of Ukrainian culture.

1935. Left: the Ginza district of downtown Tokyo. Right: Escolta Street, in downtown Manila.

1935. Left: the first Pan Am flight from the US mainland reaches Honolulu. Regular passenger service from San Francisco to Honolulu, continuing on to Manila, would commence in 1936. Right: construction of ship repair basins at Pearl Harbor.

1935: In August, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act. In October, FDR spoke at Balboa Park in San Diego as the city hosted its second exposition.

1935. Left: Huey Long (the “Kingfish”), governor and senator from Louisiana, is assassinated in September. A left-wing populist and harshly critical of FDR, Long was often denounced as a fascist demagogue. Right: Winston Churchill, now sixty years old and a member of Parliament, says of Long’s killing, “Sic semper tyrannis… This was the most clownish of the Dictator tribe. Let us hope that more serious tyrants will also lose their sway.”

Amen…

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