What was the headline in Variety on October 30th, 1929?

Who allegedly fixed the 1919 World Series and tried to organize a national crime syndicate based on cooperation of all the leading gangs?

For whom did Alabama cast its 24 votes at the Democratic Convention in 1924?

Who was the dentist from Ohio who was the premier writer of Westerns like Lone Star Ranger and Riders of the Purple Sage?

Who was the MIT graduate that reorganized GM with centralized management?

Who is being described?

·        Arrived in Paris with his wife, Hadley Richardson, in 1921

·        Wrote for the Toronto Star

·        Wrote each morning in longhand at a café on the Place St-Michel

·        Created his own style of writing of simple words strung together in short punchy sentences with emotions edited out

·        Published Our Time, his first collection of stories, in 1925, ensuring his fame

Which of the following military leaders was NOT involved in the removal of the Bonus Army?

During the Harding Administration, what agency was headed by Charles G. Dawes, a Chicago banker who brought business methods to government?  This agency established a budget for the entire executive branch.

Who, in the winter of 1929/1930, said, "Prosperity is just around the corner"?

Who settled an anthracite coal strike, becoming a hero, “until the coal bills came in”?  He awarded the miners a 10% wage increase and an 8 hr. day.  This caused him to not be nominated for president in 1924.

Who is being described?

·        Revolutionized filmmaking with camera positions

·        Invented the fadeout

·        Experimented with color tinting to match action

·        Created and trained a company of players including Mary Pickford and Lionel Barrymore

·        Created an epic film that ran for 3 hours and cost $2 a ticket

·        Went into a decline and died an alcoholic recluse in 1948

"Along with _____, Hoover was seen both as the harbinger of a new technological age and a symbol of the old self-sufficient rural past."

Who is being described?

-        A pathological liar, heavy drinker, drifter, and supreme hustler

-        Itinerant (traveling) Texas printer

-        Set up his headquarters in “Klanapolis”

-        Published The Fiery Cross

-        Spent weekends sailing a 94-foot-yacht on Lake Huron

During what strike did Daugherty persuade President Harding to get an injunction labeled the “most sweeping in the stormy history of American labor”?

Who began selling his stocks and buying gold in August of 1929? He was reassured that he was making the right decision when a panhandler offered him a stock tip for a coin.

 Who is being described?

·        Harvard graduate and contributor to intellectual journals

·        Dressed so badly that “he always looked dirty”

·        Compiled Civilization in the United States, a symposium by 33 contributors

·        Suggested a young man take the next boat to Europe where people knew how to live

·        Concluded his essay “The Intellectual Life” with a tribute to America and a call for intellectual revolution

·        After submitting the manuscript to publishers, boarded the Berengaria for France in 1921

Who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922 with the novel One of Ours?  The book stated “The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts.”  Everything was “becoming mechanized, packaged, or tinned.”  “Nobody stays at home anymore; nobody makes anything beautiful anymore.”

What did Hoover have placed on his desk in the White House in a highly symbolic gesture?

Who is being described?

-        Organized the “revived” Klan in 1915 atop Stone Mountain, outside Atlanta

-        KKK Imperial Wizard

-        Was an obscure Methodist preacher

-        Had to mortgage his home to keep the organization alive

-        Was ousted as Imperial Wizard after he insisted that he needed two marketing organizers after they were involved in a scandal

What was Marcus Garvey convicted of?

Where did a communist-led demonstration of 3,000 jobless auto workers march in March, 1932? More than 2/3 of the workers had been laid off. Guards and goons met them with tear gas. After the marchers through frozen mud, the fire department sprayed freezing water on the men. Four demonstrators were killed and several wounded.

Who is being described?

·        First President to use the radio effectively

·        Gave more speeches than his predecessor and met the press more often

·        Was said he had a “natural talent for the incomparable English language.”

·        Said “I am for economy.  After that I am for more economy.”

·        Twice vetoed the McNary-Haugen Bill, an effort by farmers to have the government purchase surpluses and dump them abroad; Encouraged farmers to voluntarily cut back on acreage and lower production

·        Was the last President to spend hours in the White House lobby shaking hands with touring visitors.

·        Gave his successor this advise about long-winded visitors: “If you keep dead still, they will run down in three or four minutes.”            

·        Ordered the deportation of Marcus Garvey

What was the name of Huey Long's crusade during the Great Depression?

What official could not find anyone at the White House to accept his resignation as wartime food czar and simply “shut up shop and slipped out of Washington”?

Where was F Scott Fitzgerald from?

In what American city did unemployment rise to 80% during the Great Depression?

What Montana Democrat Senator began probing for details in an investigation of the oil leases of Tea Pot Dome?  His phone was tapped, his past was raked over, his mail was opened, and his office was ransacked.  He persisted, though.

Who was in France watching the negotiations at the end of WWI and disposing of Navy surplus property in Britain and France?  He returned home on the George Washington and may have helped save the ship.

What university did President Hoover increase funding for?

Who is being described?

·        Family maverick, political reformer, Socialist muckraker

·        Dressed as a tramp, panhandled and lived in a Bowery flophouse to get opinions

·        Launched the Daily News in June 1919

·        Published a “ghoulish” photo of an electrocution

·        Paid for news tips

What was the most problematic issue with the League of Nations?

On what traditional holiday for labor resulted in clashes or riots in Boston, New York and reached their peak in Cleveland?  

What law passed by Congress in 1930 all but blocked foreign goods from coming into the US and caused disruption in Europe?

Who is being described?

·        Followed Daugherty around “like a friendly puppy”

·        No one knew what he actually did at the Department of Justice

·        If you wanted to “settle out of court”, you approached him.

·        He had a large joint account in a bank operated by the attorney general’s brother in their Ohio hometown for “political purposes”.

·        Died of “Harding of the arteries”, shot with no autopsy performed, ruled a suicide

·        Rumored to have been murdered to keep quiet

What prohibition official did President Hoover "sack"?

Who is being described?

·        Son of Union Pacific RR engineer

·        Apprentice in RR machine shop before travelling the country playing the tuba and working on machines

·        Chief mechanic of American Locomotive Company before being put in charge of the Buick plant

·        Took over Maxwell motors

·        First to introduce high-compression engine for an inexpensive car

A.     Walter P. Chrysler                   B.  William C. Durant       C.  John and Horace Dodge        D.  Alfred P. Sloan

Who is being described?

·        Was the smooth-talking confidence man Harding met in Hawaii on a Senate Junket

·        In Harding’s Cabinet, he had a budget of half billion $$

·        Solicited loans from companies to build hospitals

·        Sold government medical supplies at a fraction of cost to private contractors

·        Entertained an entire floor of the Hotel Traymore in Atlantic City

·        Had a “Violent” interview with the President when he was caught

Who is credited with creating the idea of “celebrity”?  He also created the terms “blessed event” and “phfft”.

John Maynard Keynes compared the Great Depression to ___.

With the help of Richard Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster, this became, by far, the biggest craze to sweep the United States in the Twenties.

Which member of the Harding administration was convicted of a crime and sentenced to a year in jail?

Who is being described?

- Tall, blonde, and handsome

- Irish-American from Greenwich Village

- Marine in World War I

- Considered a "highbrow" and was seen reading books

- In 1928, he appeared before a Yale literature class to lecture on Shakespeare

Who, at the Democratic convention of 1932, announced that "California came here to nominate a president. California casts 44 votes for Roosevelt"?

Who shot and seriously wounded Johnny Torrio, sending him into retirement, and was shot to death in broad daylight outside the flower shop – at Capone’s order?

Who was the UMW (United Mine Workers) Union in 1922?  He cut a deal on a strike after the murder of 19 strikebreakers.

Where did a race riot occur in Jan 1923, when a mob of whites looking for an unidentified black man who allegedly assaulted a white woman? The woman may have actually been beaten by her white lover but didn’t want to tell her husband.  Whites burned a church, store, and 35 houses.

What leader watched from the visitor's gallery as stocks plummeted on "Black Thursday"

Who was Vice President Marshall referring to when he said, “Death had to take him sleeping, for if [he] had been awake, there would have been a fight.”?

Who is being described?

·        First US Senator from New Mexico

·        Looked like a crooked sheriff in western movies

·        Sent Harding a telegraph in Daugherty’s name and charged it to Daugherty to nominate himself for a Cabinet position

·        Interior Secretary for Harding Administration

What was the catch phrase Izzy and Moe used when at a speakeasy?

What physicist at Clark University experimented with rockets?

In the election of 1920, what actor produced a campaign jingle for Harding?  “We need another Lincoln/To do this country’s thinkin’/Mis-ter Harding/You’re the man for us.”

Where was the 1920 Democrat National Convention held?

What future US president ran a wheel of chance at the Slippery Gulch Rodeo in Prescott, Arizona in the summer of 1929?

What law imposed tariff increases in 1922 from 60 to 400% on some items?

Who is being described? 

·        Regarded as king of revivalists

·        Preached to 100 million

·        Child of Union soldier who died

·        Grew up in Iowa orphanage

·        Left Chicago White Stockings, married, and gave up liquor to become an evangelist

The press dubbed him “Scarface”, but Al Capone preferred the nickname ____.

What bacteriologist was conducting experiments at St. Mary's Hospital with staphylococcus bacteria and discovered penicillin?

Who is being described?

·        Had a bristling white mustache, spats, and a gold-headed walking stick

·        Known as the “King of Kilowatts”

·        Commanded 27 holding companies through pyramid structure

·        “Reigned over” the transit system in Minneapolis-St. Paul and Chicago

·        Motto was “never pay cash when you can give a note”

·        Had monopoly on electric power and gas in Chicago

·        Hired blacks “without prejudice”, and gave employees pensions, medical care, education allowances, and stock ownership

·        Owned a farm near Chicago with gold leaves on the bathtub

What entertainer invested the bulk of his $240,000 nest egg in Goldman, Sachs at the suggestion of fellow comedian Eddie Cantor? He lost it all in the crash.

Who is being described?

·        Head of National City Bank

·        Convinced conservative banks to be “financial department stores”

·        Convinced America to be bullish

·        Fined $1 million for tax evasion

Owen D. Young, the head of what major US Company, negotiated a plan to reduce Germany's reparations to $9 billion in 1929.

Who was charged in 1921 with the murder of a young actress in a San Francisco hotel?  She most likely died due to a botched abortion. Who was the victim?

Who did the "big bankers" send to the rescue to buy stocks after Black Thursday began? He bought 10,000 shares of US Steel.

Who is being described?

·        Mayor of NY City

·        Wrote the song “Will you love me in December As You did in May?”

·        Involved in payoffs and corruption

·        Made the city seem “glamourous and romantic” and symbolized “splendor, audacity, and wickedness” of NY City

Where was the first regular airline passenger service established?

Who is being described?

·        Racecar driver and creator of Indianapolis Speedway

·        Dubbed by Will Rogers as the “midwife” of the Florida boom

·        Built the firs of 3 causeways across Biscayne Bay to Miami Beach

·        Developed hotels, houses, and properties

·        Held bathing eauty contests and advertised on billboards in Times Square in the winter

What popular Chronicle created the legend that grossly distorted the level of market participation of small stockholders in the market?

After the death of Samuel Gompers in 1924, William Green became head of the ____.

What chief of the Army Air Service in Europe during WWI envisioned an independent air force, similar to the Royal Air Force of Britain?

During the Great Depression, a trading agency received 100,000 applications for jobs in

In 1932, a world disarmament conference in ___ rejected President Hoover's proposal for a 30% cut in land and naval forces.

Who is being described?

- Was the owner of the Harvard Inn on Coney Island

-Specialized in contract murder and extortion

- Hired Capone at 18 to be bartender and bouncer at his bar

- Was paid $10,000 to kill Big Jim Colosimo

Who developed Coral Gables out on his family’s orchards southwest of Miami, including the $10 million Biltmore Hotel and country club?

What record did Lindbergh set before the historic flight?

What low did President Hoover ram through Congress to provide a $500 million revolving fund for loans for farm cooperatives?

Who did Capone marry, after their son was three and a half weeks old?

All of the following were contenders for the Democratic nominee for president at the convention in 1932 EXCEPT

Who is being described?

·        Born in Waco, Texas and had been a circus rider, vaudeville trouper, and appeared in Hollywood westerns

·        Backed by Larry Fay, a prominent bootlegger arrested 49 times

·        Greeted guests with “Hello, Sucker!”

·        Wore miniature padlocks, symbolized the times arrested and clubs closed

·        Playfully cracked jokes with guests, would clear the dance floor for George Raft and Ruby Keeler to dance

·        Blended Social Register names, Broadway and Hollywood starts, showgirls, top-drawer racketeers, and intellectuals into “café society”

·        Guests at night club might include Lord and Lady Mountbatten, Mayor Walker and Betty Compton, William J. Fallon, Harry K. Thaw, William Beebe, and Aimee Semple McPherson

Why was a mistrial declared in the trial of Fred E. Beal and 15 others for conspiracy to commit murder in the death of police chief O.F. Aderholt in 1929?

In May 1927, what did the Supreme Court rule concerning the bootlegger named Manny Sullivan?

Who was the first US President to visit Canada?

During the Lindbergh flight, what other news story were Americans following?

Who, in the 1932 Democratic Convention, agreed to release his delegates for FDR in exchange for the Speaker of the House to become the Vice-Presidential nominee? This allowed FDR to seal the nomination on the fourth ballot.

Where did the "Fight of the Century", occur on September 22, 1927, and who technically won the match?

Who is being described?

- Plays contained obsessive characters and highly charged language

- Introduced many people to psychoanalysis

- Thrown out of Princeton as a freshman for drinking and chasing women

- Son of a successful actor and morphine-addicted mother

- Drank with "suicidal intensity"

- Developed tuberculosis, and while recovering in a sanitorium, read the great dramas

- Wrote the first American play to feature a black actor - Charles Gilpin - in 1920, The Emperor Jones

- Won four Pulitzer Prizes, and only American playwrite to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature

- Wrote Long Day's Journey into Night

- Refused to change the last scene of All God's Chillun Got Wings, even though he received death threats because the white wife kisses the hand of her black husband, played by Paul Robeson