GLORIA SWANSON - THE PATRIOT and HUMANITARIAN

In the late 1930's and early 1940's, the World War II era, Gloria Swanson put at least $25,000 into establishing a company called "Multiprises," with the mission to help Jewish and anti-Nazi scientists and inventors to escape from Europe and set up in the United States. They were working to develop new technologies that would be useful to the United States military.

The actress would be considered a conservative today. She was a Republican who supported the presidential campaigns and of Wendell Willkie (1940, 1944), Thomas E. Dewey, and Barry Goldwater (1964). In 1964, she also spoke at a "Project Prayer" rally in Los Angeles, advocating for school prayer in public schools. In 1980 she activated for the Reagan-Bush presidential election. I speculate her attraction to the Republican party - as it was in those days - was because she was a self made business woman.

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THE FOURTH

 

BEAUTIFUL

 

CELEBRATE

 

LADY LIBERTY

 

DELIRIOUS

 

RED WHITE AND BLUE FIREWORKS

Remember this date 100 years ago was the first that WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES COULD VOTE.  Participation in civics is an important right and responsibility.

100 YEARS AGO WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES FINALLY GOT TO VOTE

WASHINGTON ORG : WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE : 100 YEARS WOMEN's RIGHT TO VOTE

EXCERPT: This year, numerous DC museums and institutions are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the passing of the 19th Amendment by Congress on June 4, 1919, which gave women the right to vote in the United States for the first time.  Although it was not ratified until August 18, 1920 and African American women were denied voting rights in many Southern states until 1965, this centennial remains a monumental moment in the history of women's rights.

FOURTH OF JULY - DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

 This vintage postcard is from 1901.  In it Jefferson looks quite youthful compared to later portraits of the man.  He wrote the Declaration of Independence  well before he became the 3rd President of the United States and was SELECTED for two terms.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS - DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE at the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS


Thomas Jefferson's Draft of a Constitution for Virginia was an important part of the evolution of his Declaration Of Independence for the United States.

 
Image from WikiMediaCommons

HEP CAT FOURTH OF JULY

RAY CHARLES LIKED TO CALL OTHER MEN "CATS"

so I thought this vintage image might be fun for the Fourth of July.