Petula Dvorak
@petulad
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Columnist for The Washington Post, off-balance mother of two, forever searching for comfortable heels and really good tomato soup.
Washington, DC
Joined May 2008
Thank you, veterans.... A rock icon and a 100-year-old WWII veteran tell America’s story
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Kiss front man Gene Simmons paid tribute in D.C. to a man who helped liberate a concentration camp where his mother had been held.
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Sept. 2, 1925 — The listing of everyone’s income taxes were on the front page of The Washington Post #100yearsagotoday! Three times in U.S. history, income taxes were made public. It was published from 1864-1870, then…🧵
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His first year in power, Hitler deployed more and more Nazi troops to German city streets. Berliners were surprised by the array of Nazi uniforms occupying their city. #hitlerhistory
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Aug. 11, 1925 ��� The federal budget director wanted say over running D.C. #100yearsagotoday. The District has been “neglected” and deserves more money for improvements as it becomes “an ideal residential city” and is “growing even faster than any other front-rank city”. #history
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August 8-9, 1925 — The nation’s capital was overwhelmed by the massive KKK march #100yearsagotoday. After D.C. mandated that the klansmen march unmasked, thousands lined the parade in civilian clothes, suspected sympathizers who left their robes at home, but cheered alongside.
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July 29, 1925 — Giving up an $8 job to become a bootlegger was grounds for divorce #100yearsagotoday . The divorce column was long, detailed and daily. #retropolis
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In 1965, the government tried replacing migrant workers with high-schoolers. It was a disaster, by @petulad
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When the migrant-worker bracero program expired in 1965, the government recruited groups of high school male athletes to step into the fields. It was a disaster.
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1960's unsuccessful experiment to replace migrant farmworkers with high school athletes, described by @petulad in @washingtonpost
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When the migrant-worker bracero program expired in 1965, the government recruited groups of high school male athletes to step into the fields. It was a disaster.
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In 1965, the government tried replacing migrant workers with high-schoolers. It was a disaster.
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When the migrant-worker bracero program expired in 1965, the government recruited groups of high school male athletes to step into the fields. It was a disaster.
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July 19, 1925 — Don’t worry, folks! A USC study done #100yearsagotoday showed that a college education didn’t steer women away from marriage! #retropolis
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July 18, 1925 - A new trend in bootlegging was discovered beneath a Maryland cabin’s trap door #100yearsagotoday — underground stills. The culprit? A former Baltimore cop. #retropolis
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July 17, 1925 — That name, though! A hero story #100yearsagotoday honored a girl who saved a dozen head of cattle when the Virginia barn caught fire, common during these hot summers when tightly packed wheat spontaneously combusted. #retropolis
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July 16, 1925 - Those of us who had to square dance in school may blame Henry Ford’s anti-Semitic campaign against what he called “Jewish Jazz — Moron Music” #100yearsagotoday . Ford built stages, held lessons in traditional dances as the rest of America did the Charleston.
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🧵He was an Italian immigrant who worked as a translator, immigrant smuggler and mining company nurse before his most notorious scheme. While a nurse, a co-worker he didn’t know personally was severely burned in an accident and he donated 122 square inches of his own skin to her.
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July 12, 1925 — Charles Ponzi, the creator of the Ponzi Scheme (it’s in the dictionary) got 7 more years in prison #100yearsagotoday, adding to time served for the 1920 scam that cost investors the equivalent of $250 million (Bernie Madoff, for comparison, did $65 BILLION)🧵..
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Truck Co. 10 at our L’Enfant firehouse staffed today by an all female crew of #DCsBravest
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July 10, 1925 - Texas’s first female governor fascinated America #100yearsagotoday. After her husband was impeached, Miriam Ferguson was elected in his place, serving two terms. She pardoned 1,000s of prohibition violators and unmasked the KKK (Courts overturned the no-mask law)
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