Government & Propaganda
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Government & PropagandaA Sort of Goodwill Court
Congress gave one city statutory rent control a month before it gave the country the power to impose it. The day the District's office opened, the first complainant heard was a registered nurse who said her landlady had turned off the heat. Nearly seven hundred people reached the office before the day was out.
Source · Evening Star, December 17, 1941, p. 1 -
Government & PropagandaFirst, Last and Always
Three days before Pearl Harbor, the Waterbury chapter of the America First Committee sent a delegation to Hartford to hear Senator Nye argue against the war. Twelve days later it voted itself out of existence and gave its treasury to the local boys already in uniform. The papers recorded the reversal almost day by day.
Source · Waterbury Democrat, December 19, 1941, p. 16 -
Government & PropagandaUnanimous Save For One
Within hours of Pearl Harbor, American newspapers began describing a calm and united nation. They printed it on the same pages that carried the blackouts, the arrests, and the one member of Congress who voted no and was not allowed to say why.
Source · The Evening Star, December 6, 1941, p. 1 -
Government & PropagandaThe Christmas Edition
On December 6, 1942, military police shot twelve people at Manzanar. The camp's newspaper did not publish again for twenty days, and when it did, its front page named forty-three men who had come back from a work furlough.
Source · Manzanar Free Press, December 25, 1942, p. 1
