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Friday, April 06, 2007

20070406 April 7 1947 Life Magazine


April 6, 2007


April 7th, 1947 Life Magazine


http://www.jitterbuzz.com/lif0407.html

Excerpts:

LIFE hired eminent historian Arthur M. Schlesinger to write an article about the Roosevelt family two years after FDR's passing. The article began with this statement: "The existence of Franklin Roosevelt relieved American liberals for a dozen years of the responsibility of thinking for themselves. Some of his followers now feel a terrified need to consult him from the grave. Politicians seeking his place try to drape themselves in his memory. The heat is on the family to indicate somehow where FDR would stand today."

[…]

There was a two-page ad for The National Guard, because they were trying to raise 682,000 men in 27 dividions (sic). The ad said, "In an era of world uncertainties, peace cannot be preserved by wishful thinking. The basic insurance against future war is national preparedness. That's the thing that counts." …

Read the rest here: http://www.jitterbuzz.com/lif0407.html

For more…

Life Magazine January through April 14 1947

http://www.jitterbuzz.com/life1947

The January 6, 1947 issue

The January 13, 1947 issue

The January 20, 1947 issue

The January 27, 1947 issue

The February 3, 1947 issue

The February 10, 1947 issue

The February 17, 1947 issue

The February 24, 1947 issue

The March 3, 1947 issue

The March 10, 1947 issue

The March 17, 1947 issue

The March 24, 1947 issue

The March 31, 1947 issue

The April 7, 1947 issue

The April 14, 1947 issue


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