Four Nazi troops sing in front of the Berlin branch of the Woolworth Co. store during the movement to boycott Jewish presence in Germany, in March, 1933. The Hitlerites believe the founder of the Woolworth Co. was Jewish. 

Boycott

According to "Life" magazine, 1941, this is the proper way to administer a bromide to a cat during an air raid.  As a long-time, experienced cat owner (sorry - servant of cats), I am inclined to think that this would be a very good way to lose one's fingers during an air raid; and I am not thinking about the explosions ... JR.

How to give a cat a pill ...

Solemnly promising the nation his utmost effort to keep the country neutral, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown as he addressed the nation by radio from the White House in Washington, Sept. 3, 1939. In the years leading up to the war, the U.S. Congress passed several Neutrality Acts, pledging to stay (officially) out of the conflict. 