Checking Out Thanksgivings Past - 1947
By Gordonskene Thursday Nov 26, 2009 6:30pm
(1947 - People dressed differently back then, even to get a turkey)
Thanksgiving 1947 - two years after the end of World War 2 and a little over 2 years before the beginning of Korea - that mid point in history where the world is at an uneasy calm while pretending to be normal.
Morgan Beatty: “Around the world today, the news reflects a hard discipline upon the people. In London, the Council of Foreign Ministers tries desperately to achieve a basis for peace. But as they worked, these foreign ministers, their government spoke in alien terms, through news events that hardly seem accidental. In France, the Communist controlled Federation of Labor has called out a million and a quarter French workers out of her six million. And not a striking union among them will listen to government proposals to go back to work. The French government has, with dramatic suddenness pointed a finger at Moscow. Not with mere paper charges but by direct action. Nineteen Soviet citizens in France have been deported for taking too active a part in French internal affairs. Today the Soviet government, stung to the quick, demanded that the French government produce the missing nineteen without delay at the Soviet Embassy in Paris. Supposedly that’s quite impossible now, because the nineteen are believed to be in Berlin.”
Thanksgiving sixty-two years ago and the broadcast News Of The World with Morgan Beatty. The world was, for the most part, a different place.
Well, we don't get formal to buy a turkey anyway . . .
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At least she's not wearing feathers.
Gordon,
I was very surprised to see you had used this picture considering:
a. Gawker used it on Friday
http://gawker.com/5411153/give-us-your-best-t...
b. It does not give credit to Life.com at all
I expect better from C&L.
Instead of writing an email pointing this out, I signed up solely to attempt to shame you publicly.
That's because I didn't get it from the Life site - if I had, the credit would be there - as it always is (as you may have noticed). Yell at the guy who posted it first and cropped it there. I always give credit where credit is due.
G.
...of eating birds go away. This, of course, from a longtime vegetarian and tree-hugging Audubon member.
Think turkeys are stupid? Perhaps that's the case with the poor benumbed creatures on those inhumane farms (paging Sarah Palin), but wait until you encounter a wild turkey like the kind we used to see in Hawaii. Smart, pretty, perceptive, fleet, keen of vision, etc. etc. Which made them all the more prized by that barbaric species known as the hunter.
Happy holidays, everyone -- minus the dead flesh!
BID
1947, the year that lives in infamy.
The National Security Act passed and signed, the Taft Hartley Act passed, vetoed but overriden.
The NSA, the CIA and the Military Industrial Complex, those were the days indeed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFAtSmOqfjQ
She looks like Bob Hope in drag.
Amazing! I read this thread with ever-increasing incredulity.
This was on Crooks and Liars, fgawdssake. A paragraph at the beginning about a million and a quarter French workers in the streets, stuff about Taft-Hartley, etc., and the responses are almost all about how stupid the woman in the fur coat looks holding a turkey!
Too much tryptophan? Sheesh.
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