Talk:Jefferson County Courthouse

Swastikas

• I'm looking at mentions of the word "swastika" in the local press:
  • April 1, 1928, in describing a Georgian table setting, "The only superficial decoration in the silverware illustrated above is a low relief in a swastika design which is chastely classic." (link)
  • June 19, 1928, a photo of Clara Bow wearing a "summer costume, all white with black Swastikas here and there." (link)
  • September 29, 1928, a report on "demon worship" in Tibet claims, "followers of the black faith have numerous mysterious Swastika deities like those common among fire-worshipers in prehistoric times." (link)
  • January 20, 1929, "An audience of 15,000 persons attended a recent concert of chamber music in the Philadelphia Museum by the Swastika Quartet of the Curtis Institute of Music." (report)
  • July 24, 1929, "The Swastika Bridge Club will meet with Mrs W. C. Stoddard at her home Friday at 1 p.m." (link)
  • August 4, 1929, in J. F. Rothermel's review of the design of the courthouse: "There is no ornament on the granite except at the probate and deputies entrances on Twenty-First Street which are simply treated in a fluted relief and the pylons on which the flagpoles rest flanking the stair leading from Twenty-First Street to the terrace and into the building; here is a small vertical fluting through which ribbons run, and become to the inquiring eye a swastika, university symbol of eternity." (link)
  • January 11, 1930, in a poem attributed to "Brookside": "There's a swastika trinket / On his watch, by heck! / And a bag of asafoetida / Adorns his neck." (link)
  • March 8, 1930, an item entitled "Swastika's Significance": "A Swastika is the symbol of the sun in the nature religions of the Aryan races from Scandinavia to Persia and India. Similar devices occur in monumental remains of ancient Mexicans and Peruvians from the prehistoric burial mounds within the limits of the United States. It is also considered a good-luck emblem by many people." (link)
  • September 16, 1930, reporting on German Fascists, lists the complaints which "helped drive large masses under the 'Swastika Cross,' the symbol of this new political faith." (link)
  • March 13, 1931, an AP item from Eger, Germany: "Because wearing of brown shirts decorated with swastika emblems has been forbidden by police here the officers Thursday night pulled the shirts off Fascits who were meeting. They met anyway, without shirts." (link)
  • March 15, 1931, describing a ship launch at Bombay, India: "Then a gang of men painted a huge swastika, the symbol of good luck, on the hull." (link)
  • August 9, 1931, in a report on the celebration of the 12th anniversary of the German republic in Coblenz discussed the "historic flag war" and noted, "A new feature of the flag controversy is the entrance of the Hitler red-bordered banner with a white [sic] swastika emblem set in a white circle. This flag was prominently displayed everywhere." (link)
  • January 15, 1932, in an INS column by Edward Deuss entitled "German Novelist Dislikes Fascists", Lion Feuchtwanger reports that, "Hardly a day goes by that I do not receive postcards stamped with Swastikas and reading, 'You Pacifist dog. We'll get you some day.'" (link)
  • (Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933 and in March, after his party won numerous municipal elections across Prussia, announced that his Nazi flag would fly alongside the Imperial flag at all public buildings.) --Dystopos (talk) 20:49, 17 October 2023 (CDT)