look at codebreakers during world war ii and the cold war. eliza monday joins us to talk about her article, the woman codebreakers who unmasked soviet spies, liza: there was a small group of women who started breaking russian messages during world war ii, and it continued through the cold war. and most of them were former school teachers which is to be an incredible story. what makes schoolteachers useful and how did the government find them? you were a woman in 1943, schoolteacher was pretty much the only college-graduate job you could get. they had mastered both math and language. itsu.s. army sent handsomest, young army officers to sort of station themselves at post offices and hotels to lower these schoolteachers to washington because they thought that women would want to get married and a good-looking man would be an inducement. in fact most of the women who broke the russian coded messages never married, because the work was so top-secret they felt they have to cut
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for all the work you have done on this. and, since he showed up, mark who is retired from the central plains, i/o have a special thank you. over the years, i have done a lot of research at the national archives. back when you were at [indiscernible] and the archivist always seem to know what i was interested in. or have suggestions for what i ought to be interested in. and mark called me when i was working on cold war kids and said, you know, there is this collection are my be interested in. well, yes, i was very much. and it became part of a chapter in a book. so, thank you, mark. now, for tonight s discussion. what do school lunch programs the indian adoption project, polio shots, and comic books have in common? you are going oh, obviously, your first guess would be, yes, they all have something to do with the postwar years. but to they are also examples of the uptick and an unprecedented uptick in the federal intervention in children s lives between 1945 and 1960. wh
along the way. they documented all this. one by one, the revenue around mitchell disappeared. they fired him. there was a huge headlines and newspapers and big shock along the way. this really showed that there was some substance to charges about irregularities on wall street. stock exchange was like a private club whether than public entity. the democrats had just won the election 1932 and were coming into power in march. the incoming chairman of the committee duncan fletcher said we want you to stay and continue this investigation. he wrote a memoir and gave a long oral history about his experiences. he talked about the time of franklin roosevelt s inauguration. looking at the window and seeing charles mitchell walking by himself with his suitcase to union station. there were hotels all around the plaza here. here s this man that showed up with all this revenue of bank officials and everything else all by himself leaving in the process. that led to him carrying on an extrem
by the archives of kansas city. holt: good evening, and thank you for arranging this, and especially kimberly, thank you for all the work you ve done on this. since he showed up, mark, who is retired from the central plains. i ll him a special thank you i oh him a special thank you. i have done a lot of research at the national archives, and the archivists always seem to know what i was interested in or had suggestions for what i ought to be interested in. mark, when i was working on cold war kids said you know there s this collection you might be interested in. yes, i was, very much, and it became a chapter in the book, so thank you. now, for tonight s discussion, what do school lunch programs, the indian adoption project polio shots, and books comic books have in common? you re going, oh, there s a quiz? your first guest would be they all have something to do with the postwar years, but they are also examples of the uptick and an unprecedented uptick in the fe