Posts by Pamela
Overnight Code: A Q & A with Paige Bowers
I’ve been waiting to read Paige Bower’s Overnight Code, the story of groundbreaking computer engineer and ship designer Raye Montague, ever since Paige announced the deal more than a year ago. When I finally got my hands on it, the book more than lived up to my expectations. Overnight Code is an important addition…
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A Woman’s Right to Vote and Germany’s 1932 Presidential Elections
I’m still working my way through the articles Sigrid Schultz published under her by-line in the Chicago Tribune as part of my research for the new book. I’ve reached the days just after the run-offs for presidential election of 1932, in which Paul van Hindenburg defeated Adolf Hitler by a margin of 6,000,000 votes.…
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Hitler’s “Anti-Lie Bureau”
From the Chicago Tribune, April 10, 1932: The Fascist chieftain has been forced to establish an “anti-lie bureau” to issue daily answers to his opposition’s accusations that his movement is illegal, following a series of sensational raids on Nazi headquarters in Prussia and the publication of the Bavarian and Hessian governments of seized documents…
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