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THIS WEEK IN PEOPLE’S HISTORY, FEB 20–26  
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_ Nazis Parade in Manhattan (in 1939), Imperialists Fight Dirty
(1934), Calling a Fraud a Fraud (1989), Vaccines Save Lives (1954),
Outlawing Child Labor Isn't Easy (1919), Keep Calm and Carry On
(1939), Hitler Takes a Slap on the Wrist (1924) _

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_NAZIS PARADE IN MANHATTAN _

85 YEARS AGO, on February 20, 1939, about 22,000 members and
supporters of the pro-fascist German American Bund took part in a
3-hour "demonstration for true Americanism" in Madison Square Garden,
which was then located at 8th Avenue and 50th Street in Manhattan. The
Bund was the largest openly pro-fascist organization in the U.S. The
speakers, who were repeatedly saluted in the Nazi style by the
 entire audience, called for "a white, Gentile-ruled United States,
and Gentile-controlled labor unions free from Jewish Moscow-directed
domination" and for an end to "the Jew Deal." After Germany invaded
Poland in September 1939, support for the Bund began to dwindle, and
the organization withered away after the U.S. entered World War 2 in
December 1941. "A Night at the Garden," a 7-minute documentary about
the Madison Square Garden rally was produced in 2017, which you can
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_IMPERIALISM'S ENFORCERS FIGHT DIRTY_

90 YEARS AGO, on February 21, 1934, Augusto Sandino, the leader of the
fight to overthrow Nicaragua's neo-colonial government, and two
Sandinista generals held a meeting with Nicaraguan officials under a
flag of truce. After the meeting. Sandino and the generals were seized
and executed by National Guard troops, all of whom had been trained by
the United States. Soon afterwards, Anastasio Somoza, the head of the
National Guard, took over the Nicaraguan government. He and his sons
remained in power for more than 43 years.
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_CALLING A DANGEROUS FRAUD WHAT IT IS_

35 YEARS AGO, on February 22, 1989, renowned physicist Stephen Hawking
took the opportunity of receiving an award for his work by telling the
truth about what Ronald Reagan liked to call the Strategic Defense
Initiative. He said that it was purely a “deliberate fraud.” He
added, “the most it SDI could do, if it works at all, is to give
partial protection to the launch sites of ground-based
intercontinental ballistic missiles,” Hawking said. “But it is not
worth it for the other dangers it would bring.” Of course, Hawking
was not the first scientist to sharply criticize SDI, but he was
certainly the most famous to do so in such a plain-spoken manner.
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_REMEMBER WHEN PUBLIC HEALTH CAMPAIGNS WEREN'T DEMONIZED?  _

70 YEARS AGO, on February 23, 1954, the first mass inoculation against
polio with the new Salk vaccine began in two Pittsburgh schools. More
than five thousand students were vaccinated by June, and the vaccine
was quickly shown to be both safe and effective in preventing polio
infections. By May 1955, more then 1.8 million U.S. children had been
inoculated, and the incidence of polio infections fell by 85 percent.
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_OUTLAWING CHILD LABOR ISN'T EASY_

105 YEARS AGO, on February 24, 1919, the U.S. enacted the Revenue Act
of 1919. One of its  provisions was a federal tax of 10 percent on
the price of anything that was produced by child labor. Congress was
attempting to use its taxing authority to discourage the employment of
children, because the Supreme Court had just ruled that any effort to
outlaw child labor was unconstitutional. Unfortunately, in 1922 the
Supreme Court decided that the tax on the products of child labor was
also unconstitutional. The first federal law restricting child labor
that passed the Supreme Court's muster was the Fair Labor Standards
 Act of 1938.
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_KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON_

85 YEARS AGO, on February 25, 1939, the first of what eventually
totalled more than three-and-a-half million family-sized bomb shelters
was installed in a back yard near central London. It was the first
so-called Anderson bomb shelter, designed to protect six people from
anticipated German air raids. By the time the first bombs actually
fell on London, some 1.5 million Anderson bomb shelters had been put
in place.
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_HITLER TAKES A SLAP ON THE WRIST_

100 YEARS AGO, on February 26, 1924, the treason trial of Adolf
Hitler, for his role in a very serious but failed coup attempt in
Munich three months earlier, began. Hitler and his co-defendants were
convicted after a 5-week trial, and Hitler was sentenced to five years
in prison. He only served seven months.
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