#june 1920

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Helen Dryden, Vogue Cover, Summer Fashions Number, 1 June 1920

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Two masters of genre meet: Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, June 24, 1922. The author was leaving New York on the SS Adriatic after a visit to the States.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

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Letter from Charles D. Levy to President Calvin Coolidge Requesting Protection for Jews from the Ku Klux Klan

Record Group 60: General Records of the Department of JusticeSeries: Straight Numerical FilesFile Unit: 198589, Section 560-619 (5)

198589

Chas. D. Levy

WHOLESALE DRY GOODS

OFFICES AND SALESROOMS

1444-1450 St. Clair Avenue

CLEVELAND OHIO

June 24th, 1924.

[Stamped begin] RESPECTFULLY REFERRED FOR ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND CONSIDERATION.

C.B. Sleuk Secy. to the President [Stamped end]

Honorable Calvin Coolidge,

President of the United States,

Washington, D.C.

My Dear Mr. President:

I have been a staunch Republican for many years, casting my first vote for James. A. Garfield.

I have twenty-three Department Stores located throughout the different towns and cities of Ohio. In some of these towns and cities the Ku Klux Klan organization has placed a boycott on several of my stores, on account of me being fortunate enough to be born a Hebrew, and just as soon as the present leases expire I will be compelled to move from these sections.

In the town of Ashland, Ohio, where one of my stores is located, there was held a meeting in the Public Square, and in front of thousands of spectators who had gathered to hear the speakers, the Ku Klux Klan openly told the audience they should not patronize any Jewish merchant. I think this is just plain boycott and very unfair to an American citizen or even a Non-American citizen.

I have read your platform and taken special notice to the paragraph in which you state that you demand "law and order" and "the protection of all citizens."

All I am asking for is your protection in this matter. If you have promised it for the next four years there is no reason why you cannot give it to us now, as you are The President now, of this glorious country, the same as I hope you will be for the next four years.

I await your kind reply for which I thank you in advance.

Very sincerely,

Chas. D. Levy

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Lady of The Day 🌹 June Marlowe ❤️

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Geisha in her kimono, Kyoto, Japan, June of 1927. Autochrome Lumiere

Photographer: Franklin Price Knott

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Le Petit écho de la mode, no. 23, vol. 45, 10 juin 1923, Paris. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

Chapeau de jeune fille en paille anglaise, orné d’une couronne de petites pommes d’amour.

Young girl's hat in English straw, decorated with a crown of small candy apples.

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Ivor Novello in the title role of Alfred Hitchcock's THE LODGER: A STORY OF THE LONDON FOG (1927).

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Anna Mazova,granddaughter of the Irkutsk merchant and chronicler Krotov,Irkutsk (June 28,1920)

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June (circa 1928) by Irene Fawkes.

Colour lithograph sheet for a calendar depicting birds produced by the Baynard Press. Great Britain, 1928.

© Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2023.

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ivor novello and june tripp in alfred hitchcock's "the lodger" (1927)

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Mary Pickford at a tea party

[mote-historie]

Fashion Illustration for Lucien Lelong, Cover for Art Gout Beaute, Feuillets de l'élégance féminine, June 1927.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The fact that James Bowers survived a 150-foot fall from Camden Bridge does not deter him from taking the same chances as he walks across the spider-like network of footbridge cables of the Hudson River Bridge (as the George Washington Bridge was called during construction), June 19, 1929.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

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Letter from George W. Dexter to the Honorable George W. Wickersham Describing the Adverse Effects of the Press on the Legal System

Record Group 10: Records of the National Commission on Law Observance and EnforcementSeries: Letters from the PublicFile Unit: D 1930 [1/2]

TELEPHONE HOMEWOOD 10000

GEORGE W. DEXTER

ATTORNEY AT LAW

MARYLAND CASUALTY BUILDING

BALTIMORE

June 10, 1919

Hon. Geo. W. Wickersham

Chairman Law Enforcement Committee

Department of Justice

Washington, D. C.

Sir:

I trust that you will pardon this unsolicited observation, but I believe I voice the sentiments of good citizens everywhere in saying that there is more interest perhaps than you are aware in the result of the deliberations of the splendid committee of which you are the chairman.

First, it seems that justice is defeated in some instances by virtue of information given out for publication by police officers and prosecuting attorneys in advance of the capture of those charged with crime and prior to the time that they are actually tried. Doubtless the desire to appear in the public press is the cause in both instances, but the result is the same as the criminals can follow the daily developments through the newspapers and make their escape if not yet capture, or prepare their defense if not yet tried.

Second, the newspapers seem to be making law enforcement more difficult by giving crime great value as “news” and assigning headlines accordingly. It is also treating the capture and conviction of many accused of crime as something of a sporting event. The press is not urging law enforcement as it might do. On the contrary, by editorials and by cartoons, it sometimes actually ridicules acts of public officials engaged in capture and prosecution of those charged with crime and holds public officials and others interested up to ridicule. There are few men who can withstand ridicule. It is the most subtle of instruments thus employed, and particularly when used as cartoons. Indeed it seems, to some at least, that the misguided value of crime as “news” and the misdirected attitude of the newspapers at the present time would constitute the greatest single deterrent to law enforcement.

I am sure that your committee will consider this feature along with all the others, but you will pardon me in saying that possibly a changed attitude on the part of newspapers would go further than any other agency in bringing about the end your committee so much desires.

Very respectfully,

[signed] Geo W Dexter

GWD:AER

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June Marlowe ❤️

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