Units 10 & 11 The 1920s & 1930s. The 1920s: The Roaring Twenties.
Kent Chronicles The Late 1920s
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Kent ChroniclesThe Late 1920s
June 7 and 8, 2013
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A President for the Times But Not Of the Times
• Calvin Coolidge• Silent Cal• Coolidge Prosperity
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Fascination with Flying Machines
• 1903• WWI• Barnstorming• Postal Service
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The Lone Eagle
• Charles Lindbergh• Spirit of St. Louis• This is what is important.
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Bringing Attention to Flying
• Post Office starts to make regular use of airplanes
• Passenger Airlines crop up• It is a brave new world,
friends.
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Birth of an Empire
• Walt Disney• Mickey Mouse• Silly Symphonie
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Changing Entertainment
• Silent Films– The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
• Talkies– The Jazz Singer
– Vitaphone
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The Man Left Holding the Bag
• Herbert Hoover• Respected and successful
business man• Humanitarian
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Why Hoover is Remembered
• October 25, 1929“The fundamental business of this country, that
is production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis.”
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Roaring 20s Flaming Out
• Black Tuesday
• On Margin
• Can you spare a dime?
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• Over production
• Under consumption
• Income Gap
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That is a Downer
• So let us end with this.
• No Chronicles in July; we will reconvene in August!