1929: The Year of the Great CrashKlingaman's unique way of combining economic, political, social, and cultural history with first hand sources provides us with a mesmerizing chronicle of this fateful year. 8 pages of halftones. |
Contents
Election Day | 3 |
Bitter Days of Winter | 33 |
Dawn of a New Year | 45 |
Copyright | |
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Al Capone Al Smith American Arnold Rothstein bankers began Berlin Bernard Baruch boom British brokerage brokers Brothers bull market campaign Capone Charlie Mitchell Chicago Churchill Company Coolidge corporations crash decline Democratic depression dollars earned economic election Federal Reserve Board finally Fitzgerald Ford German going governor Groucho Harpo Harpo Marx Hemingway Herbert Hoover Hitler Huey ibid industrial investment investors issues J.P. Morgan Jimmy Walker John loans March Marx Marx Brothers Mellon ment million months Morgan Motors nearly never Owen Young Paris party percent police political President profits prosperity purchase Raskob refused reparations reported Republican Rockefeller Rogers Roosevelt Rothstein Sandino Scott Fitzgerald securities sell Senate shares Smith Soviet speculative stock market stock prices Swope thousand ticker tion told trading U.S. Steel United Walker Wall Street week White House workers wrote York Stock Exchange Young Plan