Tuesday, July 2, 1946. They were Nazis, but maybe they didn't know what they were doing?

The Luce–Celler Act of 1946 was signed into law giving all Philippines citizens living in the United States the right to become naturalized U.S. citizens.

Lucius Clay

Deputy Military Governor of the American Zone of Occupation in Germany Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay pardoned all Nazis under 27 years old, except for those accused of war crimes, and restored one million men to German citizenship.

His act was based on the presumption that men of that age had largely not appreciated what they were doing.

The great postwar accomodation of the Nazis in West Germany had begun.

The News discussed the first OPA free day.

Of note, the Pappy O'Daniel was the Senator from Texas, for which he'd previously been Governor.  Hh also hosted a radio show.  He'd become Senator O'Daniel in the controversial 1941 special election following the death of Morris Sheppard by defeating defeated Lyndon Johnson by 1,311 votes.  He as a Southern, anti Roosevelt, Democrat.  He ran again for governor in 1956 and 1958 during which he claimed Brown v. Board of Education was part of a Communist conspiracy. He finished third in the Democratic primaries both times. After his 1958 loss he accepted the nomination of the Constitution Party, but did not appear on the general election ballot due to the state's "sore loser" law.  That nomination is somewhat interesting in context in that far right wing wackadoodle Rebecca Bextel, who is from the well funded Teton County carpetbagger wing of the GOP, is running on their ticket this year due to moronic thesis that cross over Democrats are going to get Barlow nominated for the GOP Governor slot and then she can come in and save the day by all the real Republicans voting for her in the general, something that shows a real deficit in mathematical understanding.

Orson Wells released The Stranger, his first film noir.

Last edition:

Monday, July 1, 1946 Crossroads Able.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, Bikini Atoll, boats and ships, Economics, Office of Price Administration, Operation Crossroads, Pacific, Post War United States (and Canada), Sex, U.S. Navy, United States Air Force Academy, Weapons

Blog Mirror: 100 Movies Every Catholic Should See #39: It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

 

100 Movies Every Catholic Should See #39: It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

Friday, December 20, 1946. Release of It's A Wonderful Life.

 

It's a Wonderful Life premiered on this day in 1946.

This is jumping the line in our 100 years ago and 80 years ago threads, and this won't become a regular, but this year, this anniversary might be worth mentioning.

The release, FWIW, was in New York. The general release would come on January 7.  The film didn't really acquire its current classic status until a failure to renew the copyright in 1974 led to it being frequently run on television.  Irrespective of that, it is a classic, although one that I tend to find makes me a bit sad.

On the same day a 1944 Soviet secret cable that had been intercepted by the US was revealed to have contained the list of scientists working on the Manhattan Project.  As the Venona Files would reveal, Soviet penetration of the US government was extensive.

British Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced that the British government was prepared to grant Burma its independence.

Sugar Ray Robinson won his first professional boxing title.

Thursday, February 8, 1900. Freak blizzards, Failed Boer attacks, Je me souviens, Okinawan legacy.

A freak blizzard, if any blizzard is a freak, broke out in the Midwest in which the unseasonably warm temperature in Chicago was 62 °F (17 °C) at 7:00 am, and fell to 10 °F (−12 °C) by 11:00 pm.  The drop in temperature stands as a record to this day.

The Boers attacked the British in Ladysmith, South Africa, but were turned back.

The the States of Jersey permitted the use of the English language in its parliamentary debates for the first time, which is a crying shame.

French had been the language that was used until that time, and in my view, still should be.

Fiddlin' Joe Martin was born January 8, 1900 in  Edwards, Mississippi.

Okinawan Toyama Kyuzo, from Kin Town, arrived in Hawaii.  He was the first of many from Okinawa.

Actress Dorothy I. Adams was born in Hannah, North Dakota.  She played Wilma Cameron's mother in the bittersweet The Best Years of Our Lives, one of the best movies of all time, and the best film about the tragic, and tragically flawed "Greatest Generation".  It's hard to believe that she was only 46 years old when the film was made, which interestingly links in, a bit, to a comment made must yesterday.

Last edition:

Wednesday, February 7, 1900. Plague comes to the United States.

Labels: 1900, 1900–1904 San Francisco plague, 1900s, California (San Fransico), China, Disease, Education, Great Plague, Satire, Wyoming Freedom Caucus