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
s
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!
