WW1CN Epsiode #32 | Red Cross update | Where did “Doughboy” come from? | Hoover’s Food Administration | “Slaker” | Arizona WWI Memorial | Podcast Docudrama “Enter The Peace Broker” | more…
Summary: <br> Highlights<br> <br> Then: The American Red Cross - Part 2 |@ 01:00<br> Storyteller & Historian: The Herbert Hoover Food Administration |@ 07:00<br> Mike Shuster: Where did “Doughboy” come from? |@ 13:30<br> Feature: The US Mint WWI Commemorative Coin |@ 17:45<br> <br> NEW: Speaking WWI this week “Slaker” |@ 19:30<br> <br> Event Picks: Portland Maine, Los Angeles |@ 20:25<br> 100C/100M: Neil Urban on Veterans of WWI of the USA Monument in Arizona |@ 22:40<br> Media: Professor Sir Hew Stachan & Catriona Oliphant on Podcast Docudrama - “Enter The Peace Broker” |@ 28:55<br> Articles: National Guard, Rainbow Division and The Wool Brigade |@ 39:50<br> The Buzz: Katherine Akey on Social Media |@ 43:15<br> <br> And more… <br> Opening<br> Welcome to World War 1 centennial News - It’s about WW1 news 100 years ago this week - and it’s about WW1 News NOW - news and updates about the centennial and the commemoration.<br> <br> Today is August 9th, 2017 and this week we’re joined by <br> <br> The Storyteller and the Historian, Richard Rubin and Jonathan Bratten - <br> Mike Shuster from the great war project blog, <br> Neil Urban from the 100 Cities / 100 Memorials project in Phoenix, Arizona<br> As well as Catriona Oliphant and Sir Hew Strachan talking to us about a new British podcast docudrama called Enter The Peace Brokers.<br> <br> <br> WW1 Centennial News is brought to you by the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission and the Pritzker Military Museum and Library. I’m Theo Mayer - the Chief Technologist for the World War One Centennial Commission and your host. <br> World War One THEN <br> 100 Year Ago This Week<br> Prelude<br> In Episode #26 we told you the story of how the American Red Cross was nearly instantly transformed by the US entry into the war. In that one week in late July, 100 years ago - the US government, uses its propaganda machine and raises well over $100 million dollars on behalf of the Red Cross. Then they technically install their man, Henry P. Davidson as the organization’s overseer through a War Council, and finally they announce that Red Cross personnel will wear uniforms when in the war theater. <br> It’s a bit over a month later and time for an update on this iconic humanitarian organization that was not born, but forged by the war that changed the world.<br> [SOUND TRANSITION]<br> We have gone back in time 100 year and It’s the week of August 5th, 1917. <br> <br> From the headlines and pages of the Official Bulletin - the government’s war gazette published by order of President Wilson by George Creel, America’s Propaganda Chief - we now explore the next chapter in the story of the Red Cross. This week the story is not about transformation - but preparation as the Red Cross prepares to take on new challenges!<br> <br> [SOUND EFFECT]<br> Dateline: Tuesday August 7, 1917<br> Headline: RED CROSS TO SHIP 50,000 POUNDS ETHER T0 FRANCE<br> The story reads:<br> ‘In response to an urgent cablegram - the Red Cross is planning to ship 100,000 one-half pound tins of ether to France.<br> Also, because of the shortage of anesthetics in France, the Red Cross War Council, has also authorized the establishment, as soon as practicable, a central plant to manufacture nitrous oxygen, or “laughing gas,” one of the<br> most effective and harmless of anesthetics for short operations.<br> American machinery will be shipped to France for this purpose, and American operatives will be sent over to conduct the plant.<br> <br> [SOUND EFFECT]<br> Headline: RED CROSS CREATES SANITARY SERVICE BUREAU TO HELP MAKE ARMY CANTONMENTS HEALTHFUL.<br> In this story, the Red Cross prepares for what is probably the biggest instant human migration in the country’s history as tens of thousands of young men from across the land are gathered in rapidly built military training camps.<br> The story reads: Following its policy of caring
