Kent ChroniclesThe Late 1920s

June 7 and 8, 2013

A President for the Times But Not Of the Times

• Calvin Coolidge• Silent Cal• Coolidge Prosperity

Fascination with Flying Machines

• 1903• WWI• Barnstorming• Postal Service

The Lone Eagle

• Charles Lindbergh• Spirit of St. Louis• This is what is important.

Bringing Attention to Flying

• Post Office starts to make regular use of airplanes

• Passenger Airlines crop up• It is a brave new world,

friends.

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

The Man Left Holding the Bag

• Herbert Hoover• Respected and successful

business man• Humanitarian

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.”

Roaring 20s Flaming Out

• Black Tuesday

• On Margin

• Can you spare a dime?

• Over production

• Under consumption

• Income Gap

That is a Downer

• So let us end with this.

• No Chronicles in July; we will reconvene in August!