1941 American Magazine ; Hitler Nazi Spies , Ben Quintana Pueblo Indian Artist

Description: The American MagazineApril, 1941Published by The Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. 8.5" x 11.5"162 pages plus the covers. World War II era, April 1941 issue of The American Magazine. On the front cover is a photo of an American soldier ( identified as Private Arthur Hedley ) looking down the barrel of machine gun.( it looks like a Browning M1917A1 .30 Caliber Water-Cooled Machine Gun ) The American Magazine focused on human interest stories, social issues and fiction.It was published from June 1906 until the final issue, August 1956. This issue has an article titled : " Hitler's Slave Spies in America ""How a new blitzkrieg of blackmail is forcing hundreds of our foreign-born residents into the Nazi fifth column - a vast system of espionage , built on threats, robbery and reprisals, exposed for the first time." Other articles include : " Unity " by Dr. George Gallup ( founder of the Gallup Poll )( on the relatively few " extremists " in America , and the very large, unified " middle class" ( which was 88% of the United States, according to the poll, in 1941 ) [ how things have changed, in 2024 ...] " The Director of the Draft proposes A New Break for Youth "(" Are America's schools training boys and girls for the job of joblessness? ... a challenge to a system which produces incompetency and unemployment.") " Our Gardens Go American "(" The colorful parade of new flowers for 1941 .") " Wildcat King "( article on Glenn McCarthy , "wildcat " oil driller in Texas )[ Glenn Herbert McCarthy (1907-1988) was an American oil tycoon. The media often referred to him as " Diamond Glenn " and " The King of the Wildcatters ". he was an oil prospector and entrepreneur who owned many businesses in various sectors of the economy. McCarthy founded the Shamrock Hotel in Houston , Texas ] " Why Janet Gaynor Walked Home " ... by Clark Gable[ an essay by American film actor William Clark Gable (1901-1950), often referred to as the "King of Hollywood", he was a leading man in films for three decades ] " Tooks Tames The Jungle "(" The fantastic adventures of a mild little algebra teacher from North Carolina who plunged alone through Panama wilds to blaze a new trail linking the Americas ")[ Richard A. Tewkesbury (1907-1970), who in 1939–40 walked from the Panama Canal to the border of Colombia to demonstrate that the Darien Isthmus was not a barrier to plans for a Pan American Highway ] " I Discover America " ... by Ben Quintana( ".. a 17 year-old Pueblo Indian tells what The American Magazine Youth Forum means to him. Ben Quintana, a senior in the United States Indian School in Santa Fe , New Mexico , won the $1,000 art award in the 1939-40 Forum competition."[" One thousand dollars is a lot of money for any boy, but particularly for one of us Indian boys. .... My people are the Cochiti Pueblo Indians. We live in a village on the Rio Grande River about thirty miles south of Santa Fe, New Mexico. My ancestors before the white men came were cliff dwellers and made a loving by hunting and farming. The canyon where the lived is about twenty-five miles away from my home, and is now a National Monument. My house is made of adobe . In the summer I help my father on the farm ..." etc., etc. ) ----- Biographical information :Ben Quintana, of the Cochiti Pueblo, born in 1921(?), was an outstanding young artist and had a brilliant future in the art field. At the age of 15, Quintana won first prize over 80 contestants for a poster to be used in the Coronado Cuarto Centennial celebration. At he won first prize and $1000 in an American Magazine contest in which there were 52,587 entries. As testimony to his interest, he used the $1000 prize money to further his art education. In 1944 Ben lost his life as an American soldier in the Pacific during World War II. According to the 1945 citation Ben was awarded, after his death :Private Ben Quintana was an ammunition carrier in a light machine gun squadron charged with protection of the right flank of his troop which was counter-attacked by superior numbers. The gunner was killed and Ben, the assistant gunner, was critically wounded. Ben refused to retire from his hazardous position and gallantly rushed forward to fire into the enemy, inflicting heavy casualties. While so engaged, he was mortally wounded. By this extraordinary courage Ben Quintana repulsed the counterattack and prevented the envelopment of the right flank of his troop. His unflinching devotion to duty and heroism under fire inspired his troop to attack and seize the enemy's strong point. Ben was awarded a Silver Star, posthumously, for gallantry in action on Luzon, 1944. So ended the brilliant artistic career of an American hero, the shy, smiling little Pueblo Indian boy with the heart of a lion. ---------- This issue of The American also includes several other articles, plus various pieces of illustrated fiction, cartoons , advertising , etc., etc. Condition.As-seen in the photos, with some wear, corner-creases, etc. Carefully packed for shipment to the buyer.

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