Tag: Henry Wallace
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Raw materials
The Ankler interviews a striking writer who makes a striking analogy. Every real business relies on raw materials or basic labor, and makes money by organizing and selling the materials and labor. “You wouldn’t have content, you wouldn’t be talking about streaming, if you didn’t have writers and actors to create the raw material.” Honest…
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More Stevenson
Trying to explore Stevenson a bit more. I felt that I was probably unfair since I know very little about him. I was running with a vague impression from hearing adults talk about him when I was young. Found a debate before the Florida Dem primary in ’56. This isn’t free; it’s in a ’56…
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The yak is the point
I’m doing an electronic project this week, aiming to make the GenRad 1565 into a practical microphone. If it works, I want to record a series of audio segments from Henry Wallace’s book. The entire purpose is fun, not practical. I know nobody will listen. As in any project, there’s a certain amount of yak-shaving.…
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Uncommon
Noticed this odd advertuary in a 1965 Record World. MGM was selling a memorial record of Adlai’s speeches. The text is gloppy syrupy hagiography of an irrelevant loser. Stevenson carried the torch of Permanent War against non-interventionist Ike twice and lost twice. Truman was (barely) able to win in ’48 because he was definitely a…
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Deepstate loves the 4
I’ve been spending a lot of time in 1948 because it’s a close parallel to the current situation. A long war displaced everything in the economy and culture, and the people were hungry to resume normalcy after the war. The ’48 election shared many of the current elements. In the current mess, at first there…
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Zenith set released
I’m done with the expanded Zenith topic. Here’s the set at ShareCG as usual. ShareCG wouldn’t let me upload the set titled as ‘Zenith expanded’. I finally figured out that their algorithm is tuned to reject small variations. I changed the title to ‘Wincharger’ and it uploaded properly. = = = = = List of…
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Even more Wallace
Last month I transcribed a long passage from Henry Wallace’s 1948 speech on inflation. It’s time to add a second section. Wallace saw the development of PERMANENT CRISIS as the guarantee of permanent monopoly by the Men Of Monopoly. Again, here’s the speech itself in mp3 form. = = = = = START WALLACE first…
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Wallace’s father and radio
Henry Wallace followed in his father’s footsteps in some ways, and tried to erase his father’s footsteps in other ways. Henry Senior was a farmer who turned into a writer and researcher on agriculture, then turned into Harding’s sec of ag. Henry Junior started as a writer and researcher and businessman in ag, then turned…
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Zenith + Wallace, part 1 of 3.
I decided to continue having fun with Zenith, since it seems to bring out the best in my craft. So far all the Zenith items I’ve ‘drawn’ have turned out nicely, above the standard of other recent output. Write what you know. Write what you love. Randomly looking through old radio journals for more material,…
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Zenith + Wallace, part 2 of 3.
When FDR took office, he had to fix two parallel legacies of the booming speculative 20s, both of which caused busts in the 30s. There were cross-ties between the two legacies, so he couldn’t fix either one by itself. He had to fix them in a cross-linked way. One boom was initiated by huge government…
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Zenith + Wallace, part 3 of 3.
Simplify, simplify, simplify. Wincharger focused my thinking on balancing natural forces with natural forces, using reactance instead of resistance. This leads to three separate Simplifies. The first is impractical, the other two are eminently practical. = = = = = Simplify #1: Farm generators ranged from 6v to 32v, always DC. Modern solid-state equipment, including…
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From Mao to Marx in one move
A constant theme in old scifi, and a recognized rule of human behavior: An external enemy like an alien invasion can unite bickering family members or internally divided nations. Our monstrous rulers have been dividing us for centuries, with special success in the last 30 years thanks to their total control of MEDIA. Alien monsters…
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More on Edwin Pauley
Writing about FBI blackmailer Edwin Pauley reminded me that Bert Andrews had mentioned Pauley in one of his opinion pieces about the 1948 election. The context was Congressional hearings about commodities trading by Federal officials. Found two separate Pauley events in a Congressional Quarterly. The pattern of the two events is distinctly revealing. The first…
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Loyal Edgarite
Wallace mentioned Edwin Pauley as one of the Errand Boys who slapped Truman into submission to Deepstate. I automatically linked the Wikipedia article on Pauley but didn’t automatically read it. Now I’ve read it. Pauley was a lifelong Deepstate blackmail agent. He was an oil exec whose career was advanced by collaborating with Bush Senior…
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More Wallace
Here’s another 1948 speech by Henry Wallace, focusing on postwar inflation. Again I’ve uploaded the speech itself without the intro and outro. Causes of Inflation, 14 minute mp3. I’ll transcribe some relevant parts for the web record. Part of the speech is details of prices and products that are no longer relevant. Our current postwar…
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