born again OP-ED: The AMAZING 1930s

Psalm 71:19-21

King James Version

19 Thy righteousness also,

O God, is very high,

who hast done great things:

O God, who is like unto thee!

20 Thou, which hast shewed me

great and sore troubles,

shalt quicken me again,

and shalt bring me up again

from the depths of the earth.

21 Thou shalt increase my greatness,

and comfort me on every side.

Why is the HOLY SPIRIT taking me back into time?

Why did He make me watch two episodes of Franklin D. Roosevelt recently?

Why did He make me appreciate elegant fashion of old, when women were women; and men were men?

And I checked, and realized GOD took me back to the 1930s.

My father was born in the 30s, thus, I could appreciate Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine" and Jerome Kern's "All the Things You Are".

Was the era gentler, kinder, more promising?

We shall find out from these very telling things from Wikipedia:

"The decade was defined by a global economic and political crisis that culminated in the Second World War."

"It saw the collapse of the international financial system, beginning with the Wall Street crash of 1929, the largest stock market crash in American history."

"The subsequent economic downfall, called the Great Depression, had traumatic social effects worldwide, leading to widespread poverty and unemployment."

"U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who took office in 1933, introduced a program of broad-scale social reforms and stimulus plans called the New Deal in response to the crisis."

"First-wave feminism made advances, with women gaining the right to vote in South Africa (1930, whites only), Brazil (1933), and Cuba (1933)."

"Following the rise of Adolf Hitler and the emergence of the NSDAP as the country's sole legal party in 1933, Germany imposed a series of laws which discriminated against Jews and other ethnic minorities."

"The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is proclaimed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, concluding the country's unification under the rule of Ibn Saud."

"The "Great Purge" of "Old Bolsheviks" from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union takes place from 1936 to 1938, as ordered by Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin, resulting in hundreds of thousands of people being killed."

"The Abdication of Edward VIII in 1936, gives the British Crown to George VI, 325 days after the death of his father George V. The Coronation of George VI and Elizabeth takes place in May 1937."

"Amelia Earhart receives major attention in the 1930s as the first woman pilot to conduct major air flights. Her disappearance for unknown reasons in 1937 while on flight prompted search efforts that failed."

"Major international media attention follows Mohandas Gandhi's peaceful resistance movement against the British colonial rule in India."

"Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong forms the small enclave state called the Chinese Soviet Republic in 1931."

"The German dirigible airship Hindenburg explodes in the sky above Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States on May 6, 1937, killing 36 people."

"The Dust Bowl, or "Dirty Thirties", a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 (in some areas until 1940)."

"The 1938 Yellow River flood pours out from Huayuankou, China, inundating 54,000 km2 (21,000 sq mi) of land and killing an estimated 500,000 people."

"Prohibition in the United States ended in 1933."

"Frank Whittle obtained his first patent for the turbo-jet engine in 1930. He tested his first jet engine on the ground in 1937."

"Alan Blumlein invented the stereophonic sound in 1931."

"In 1930, Warner Brothers released the first All-Talking All-Color wide-screen movie, Song of the Flame;"

"In 1931 American aviators Clyde Edward Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, Jr., complete the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean, flying their plane, Miss Veedol, from Misawa, Japan, to East Wenatchee, Washington, in 41½ hours."

"Air mail service across the Atlantic Ocean began;"

"Radar was invented, known as RDF (Radio Direction Finding), such as in British Patent GB593017 by Robert Watson-Watt in 1938."

"In 1933, the 3M company marketed Scotch Tape."

"In 1931, RCA Victor introduced the first long-playing phonograph record."

"In 1935, Kodachrome is invented, being the first color film made by Eastman Kodak."

"The Volkswagen Beetle, one of the best-selling automobiles ever produced, had its roots in Nazi Germany in the late 1930s. Created by Ferdinand Porsche and his chief designer Erwin Komenda."

"The chocolate chip cookie is developed in 1938 by Ruth Graves Wakefield."

"Edwin Armstrong invents wide-band frequency modulation radio in 1933."

"EMI research team, under Isaac Shoenberg, developed the 405-line (Marconi-EMI system), the first fully electronic television system in 1936."

"In 1935, Irene Joliot-Curie and Jean Frederic Joliot are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for synthesis of new radioactive elements for application in medicine."

"In 1936, Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann was able to conclude that the Earth had a solid inner core and a molten outer core to explain inconsistencies in seismic wave data from earthquakes."

"In 1939, Nuclear fission is discovered by Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassman. Albert Einstein's equations form the basis for creation of the atomic bomb."

And that's where I'd like to end this post.

Knowing we are where we are, with threat of nuclear destruction, once man found a different use for atoms.

Also in acknowledgment of the brave men, and women, who lived through those wonderful, and yet painful years.

Before I forget, it is also relevant for me to share this:

"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures."

-- Wikipedia

Zegler, today's new, woke Snow White, said only ONE right thing in her interviews -- the original animated film (which she called "outdated") was made in 1937.

Time was when people were grateful for any job, in those lean years, and didn't have the compunction to complain.

Not so for Zegler, who feels so "diva", and "entitled".

Times, and people, have truly changed.

The 30s was really quite an era.

Possibly like no other.

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