PEOPLE OF THE THIRTIES By Taylor Sharp, McKenna Gernander, Martha Krawczynski.
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Transcript of PEOPLE OF THE THIRTIES By Taylor Sharp, McKenna Gernander, Martha Krawczynski.
Shirley Temple
• Was born on April 23rd, 1928
• “Shone through the clouds of the depression
years”
• Her first appearance was in 1932
• Became a #1 box office in U.S./Britain
• Her salary rose to $100,000 per movie
• “Baby Take a Bow” got her a Fox contract
• Little girls around the US wanted to be like her
• In movies, she was usually placed as an orphan
in a horrible and her joy would “rescue” the
adults
• She dances, acts, and sings
Lou Gehrig
• 1903-1941• Was the star player of the Yankees in the 1930’s• During his career as a Yankee he:• Played 2,130consecutive games• hit 493 home runs• Won 6 world championships• 1932- hit 4 home runs in one game • Got 2 MVP awards• Won a Triple Crown in 1934
• Was known as the “Iron Horse” because he played through injuries such as:• Back spasms• Broken toe• Broken thumb• 17 different hand fractures
Lou Gehrig
• In 1939 he was diagnosed with a rare muscle disease
• He announced it to the crowd of his last baseball game and
said: “Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the
face of the earth”
• The muscle disease is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALA)
• The nickname for it is “Lou Gehrig’s Disease”
• The disease:
• Breaks down tissues in the nervous system
• Affects the nerves responsible for movement
• Makes you lose the ability to move any muscle in
the body
Franklin Roosevelt
◦ (1933-1945)
◦Second president during the Great Depression
◦Started the New Deal
◦Created programs
◦Social Security
◦Becomes “War President”
◦Very wealthy family
◦Was taught public service is important
Herbert Hoover
◦(1929-1933)
◦President when the depression started
◦Stock market crashed in Oct. 1929
◦Waited for the businesses to figure something out
◦In 1932 he started helping out
◦Gave out laws
◦Worked out relations with Latin America or other places
◦Gave out laws on foreign policy
◦Last 4 months bank failures and unemployment failed
◦New law passed saying that his election had to end earlier
Mary McLeod Bethune
◦ Born in Mayesville, South Carolina, on July 20, 1875
◦ In 1904 she moved to Daytona, Florida, where she created a
school for African American girls.
◦ The school merged to form Bethune-Cookman College in 1929
◦ A Founder of the National Council of Negro Women in 1939
◦ Recruited to the Federal Council of Negro Affairs
◦ Helped establish “Black Cabinet”
◦ Pushed to get blacks included in the New Deal programs.
William H. Hastie
◦ Born November 17, 1904 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
◦ Was a high ranking official in the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt
◦ Chosen by Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, to serve as assistant solicitor.
◦ One of his tasks was to reorganize the government of the U.S. Virgin
Islands
◦ Served as federal district judge from 1937 to 1939
◦ Appointed by Roosevelt to judgeship. He was the first African American to
serve of the federal bench.
◦ Became involved in the March of Washington.
◦ Served as governor of the Virgin Island until his retirement in 1971.
News
• Elections
• Hoover and Roosevelts elections were all over the
news
• Radios
• Changed the energy in the depression
• People listened to the news to find more about
these people
• Everything that happened in the elections was on
the news