A & P Gypsies, 143
Ablin, David, 231–232
Adams, Franklin P. (F.P.A.), 223
Adams, Henry, 70
Adams, James Truslow, 201, 205
Adams, John T., 37
Adams, Samuel Hopkins, 117
Addams, Jane, 52
Advertising:
competition and, 146–151
fashion, 303
in magazines, 163–164
radio, 143
Agricultural Marketing Act, 274, 299
Agriculture:
elections and, 261
relief sought for, 138–139, 144, 162
supply and demand in, 299
Aiello family, 225
Alcock, Sir John William, 3, 190
Alcohol:
bootleggers, 62, 132, 216, 219–220, 223, 225, 230, 232, 309
corn sugar and, 219
speakeasies, 86, 95, 218, 219, 225, 229
women and, 10, 77, 78, 81, 86, 95–96
see also Prohibition
Aldrich, Capt. Malcolm, 69
Alien Property Custodian, 130–131, 133
Allied Patriotic Societies, 51, 52
All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque), 275
American Academy of Arts and Letters, 199
American Can Company, 255, 276, 278, 292, 293
American Defense Society, 52
American Federation of Labor, 45, 66, 152, 213
American Hairdresser, 91
American Language, The (Mencken), 201
American Medical Association, 151
American Mercury, 153, 197, 199–200, 210
American Metal Company, 131
American Red Cross, 244
American Slicing Machine Company, 147
American Telephone & Telegraph, 255, 269, 275, 276, 293
American Tobacco Company, 146
American Tragedy, An (Dreiser), 98, 210
Amos ’n’ Andy, 307
Anaconda Copper, 255, 276, 293
Anarchists, 41–45, 47–53, 62–65, 66, 74
Anderson, Sherwood, 199
Andrews, Gen. Lincoln C., 218
Arbuckle case, 70
Architecture, 209
Arms limitation treaty, 113–115
Arnold, Benedict, 3
Arrow of Gold (Conrad), 11
Arrowsmith (Lewis), 210
Arts, 208–210
Associated Advertising Clubs, 154–155
Atlantic City Beauty Pageant, 70, 155, 308
Atlantic Monthly, 41, 82, 201, 205
Autobiography (Coolidge), 157, 160, 266
Automobiles, 5–7
industry growth in, 145
organized crime and, 228
social effects of, 86–87, 236–237
Aviation, translantic flights, 3, 187–194, 274, 307
Ayres, Col. Leonard P., 281
Babbitt (Lewis), 198
Babcock, Joseph P., 71–72
Babson, Roger W., 280
Baker, George F., 269
Baker, George F., Jr., 286–287
Balfour, Lord Arthur J., 26
Ballyhoo years, 161–194, 307–308
aviation in, 187–194
Hall-Mills case, 184–186
Lindbergh and, 187–192
media in, 163–164, 167–169, 186, 189
religion in, 169–178
sports in, 179–183
Baltimore Sun, 199
Balto (dog), 168
Bankers Trust Company, 286–287
Bara, Theda, 11
Barnes, Julius H., 296
“Barney Google” (song), 143
Barrett, Richmond, 207
Barrie, James M., 45
Barton, Bruce, 155–156, 170, 201
Beach, Rex, 238–239
Beer, Thomas, 203
Beer industry, 228–229
Beesley, Thomas Quinn, 232
Belgium (Whitlock), 11
Bellows, George, 208–209
Benchley, Robert, 303–304
Benet, Stephen Vincent, 210
Berlin, Irving, 183
Bertaud, Lloyd, 187
Better America Federation, 52
“Better ’Ole, The” (play), 11
Big Bull Market, see Stock market
Birth control, 101–102
Blackmer, Harry M., 121–122, 126
Bliven, Bruce, 130
Blythe, Samuel G., 34–35
Bolshevism, 17, 19, 39–45, 47–52, 56, 65, 66, 196
Book of Etiquette (Post), 151
Bootleggers, 62, 132, 216, 219–220, 223, 225, 230, 232, 309
Borah, William E., 26
Boston:
police strike in, 45–47, 49, 61, 75, 157
Boston News Bureau, 269, 281, 283
Bow, Clara, 144
Braman, Dwight, 51
Brickley, Charlie, 16
Bridge of San Luis Rey, The (Wilder), 182, 254
Britain, arms limitations, 113–115
“Broken Blossoms” (film), 11
Browning, Edward W., 187
Browning, Frances Heenan “Peaches,” 187
Bryan, William Jennings, 15
death of, 178
and Hughes plan, 115
oratory skills of, 175, 201, 238
and Scopes trial, 175–178
Budget Act (1921), 112
Buford (ship), 49
Bull market, see Stock market
Buranelli, Prosper, 165
Burleson, Albert S., 43
Burns, William J., 51
Busch, Mae, 87–88
Business:
prosperity in, see Prosperity
religion and, 153–156
service clubs and, 154
stocks and, see Stock market; Stock prices
working women, 84–85
Butler, Gen. Smedley, 219–220, 234
Byrd, Adm. Richard E., 183, 187, 193, 254, 274, 307
Cabell, Branch, 199
Cadman, S. Parkes, 154–155
California, land speculation in, 237, 247
Caminetti, Commissioner, 43
Canby, Henry Seidel, 304
Caplan, Charles, 43–44
Capone, Alphonse, 224–233
“Captive, The” (play), 98
Carpentier, Georges, 68, 69, 73, 108, 129
Carroll, Harry, 10
Carroll, H. K., 306
Carter, John F., 82
Catchings, Waddill, 270
Cather, Willa, 198, 199, 210, 255
Catholics, intolerance and, 54, 56, 57–59, 260
Censorship, 88–89, 98, 103, 196, 201
Central Labor Union, 46
Cézanne, Paul, 197
Chafee, Zechariah, 53
Chamberlin, Clarence, 187, 193
Chaplin, Charlie, 11, 52, 144, 197, 300
Charity Organization Society, 252
Chase National Bank, 286–287
Chicago:
organized crime in, 224–229
race hatred in, 55
skyscrapers in, 209
Chicago, University of, 153
Chopin, Frederick, 10
Christian Endeavor Society, 79
Chrysler, Walter P., 5
Cities, growth of, 247, 249–250
Civilization in the United, States (Stearns, ed.), 198
Civil Liberties Union, 175
Clark, Francis E., 79
Clark, Marguerite, 11
Clarke, Edward Y., 56–58
Clemenceau, Georges, 20, 22, 23, 24, 26, 29
Cobb, Ty, 4
Columbia University, 153
Communists, 41–42, 47–53, 66, 309
Confession magazines, 87
Conrad, Frank, 12
Conrad, Joseph, 11
Constitution, U.S.:
Eighteenth Amendment, 10–11, 18, 86, 107, 212–215, 218, 221
Nineteenth Amendment, 3, 45, 61–62, 83
Continental Trading Company, 120–122, 126, 127, 128, 135, 136, 156
Coolidge, Calvin, 197
autobiography of, 157, 160, 266
and Boston police strike, 46, 61, 75, 157
and Harding scandals, 120, 128, 134, 135, 136
personal traits of, 157–160
presidency of, 136, 137–160, 162–164
and prohibition, 217
and prosperity, see Prosperity
and stock market, 252
Coolidge, Col. John, 137
Coral Gables, Florida, 238–239, 242, 243
Correll, Charles J., 307
Coué Institutes, 72
Cox, James M., 33, 37, 61, 67, 122
Craft unions, 47
Cramer, C. F., 133
Credit purchases, 145, 258, 297–298
Crissinger, D. R., 110
Cross-word puzzles, 165–166
Cummings, E. E., 197
Curb Market, 8
Current History, 59
Cuvillier, Assemblyman, 60
“Daddy Long Legs” (film), 11
Dancers in the Dark (Speare), 77, 79
Daniels, Josephus, 119
“Dardanella” (song), 10
Dark Laughter (Anderson), 98
Darrow, Clarence, 175–178
Dartnell Company, 146–147
Daugherty, Harry M., 36, 107, 110, 113, 117, 132–136, 159
Daugherty, Mal S., 131–132
Davis, D. P., 239
Davis Islands, Florida, 238, 244
Dawes, Charles G., 112–113, 152, 165
Dayton, Tennessee, Scopes trial in, 169, 174–175, 178
Dearborn Independent, 56
“Dear Brutus” (play), 11
Debunking, coining of term, 204
DeForest, Lee, 12
DeForest, Robert W., 52
Dempsey, Jack:
vs. Charpentier, 68, 69, 73, 108, 129
retirement of, 308
training camp of, 163
vs. Tunney, 141, 181–182, 184, 275
Dennett, Mary Ware, 98
Depression:
causes of, 297–299
public attitude in, 309–310
Des Moines Sunday Register, 305
Detroit, suburbs of, 248
Dice, Charles Amos, 270
Dix, Dorothy, 163
Doheny, Edward F., 116, 119–120, 123–125, 129
Dorgan, Tad, 72
Dos Passos, John, 197
Dreiser, Theodore, 198, 199, 210
Dubuc, Frances Fisher, 92
Dunn, Edward F., 25–26
Durant, W. C., 256
Durant, Will, 186
Dyer, Gen. George R., 269
Easley, Ralph, 51–52
Easy payment plan, 145, 258, 297–298
Economic Consequences of the Peace (Keynes), 197
Economics of Fashion (Nystrom), 89
Eddington, Sir Arthur S., 197, 211, 306
Ederle, Gertrude, 181
Education of Henry Adams, The (Adams), 70
Eighteenth Amendment, 10–11, 18, 86, 107, 212–215, 218, 221
Einstein, Albert, 171, 198, 208
Einstein, Izzy, 219
Electric Bond & Share, 256, 276, 293
Eliot, Charles W., 184
Elk Hills scandal, 118–123, 128
Elsbree, Rev. George M., 61
Elwell case, 71
Empey, Guy, 50
Empire State Building, New York City, 250
Enormous Room, The (Cummings), 197
Ervine, St. John Greer, 11
Eskimo Pie, 70
Fads, 164–166
food, 70
humanism, 211
Falaise de la Coudray, Marquis de la, 167
Fall, Albert B., 31, 110, 119–120, 122–126, 129
“Fantasie Impromptu” (Chopin), 10
Farewell to Arms, A (Hemingway), 210, 305
Federal Council of Churches, 52
Federal Reserve Board:
and controls, 265–267, 280, 299, 302
and inflation, 268
and rediscount rate, 252, 258, 265–267, 293
and speculation, 8, 252, 258, 265–267
and stock market crash, 297
Felder, T. B., 133
Ferguson, Elsie, 11
Ferguson, Ma, 83
First National Bank, 286–287
Fisher, Carl G., 239
Fisher, Harrison, 10
Fisher, Irving, 281
Fisher Brothers, 256
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 10, 78–79, 202, 207
Fiume, 26
Flagpole sitting, 194, 307–308
Flaming Youth (Fabian), 79
Flappers, 77, 93, 104, 107, 303
Florida:
hurricanes in, 243–244
land speculation in, 234–246
population growth in, 245
Foch, Marshall Ferdinand, 20
Foraker, Joseph B., 35
Forbes, Charles R., 110, 129–130
Ford, Henry, 3, 56, 140–141, 153, 197, 254
Ford Motor Company, 145
advertising by, 140
and competition, 256
Foreign Policy Association, 52
Forum, The, 201
Fosdick, Rev. Harry Emerson, 172, 173
Foster, William T., 270
Foster, William Z., 47
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The (Blasco Ibanez), 11
Fox, William, 249
F.P.A. (Adams), 223
Frankel, Jacob, 249
Frankfurter, Felix, 53
Franks, Bobby, 167
Frederick, Christine, 92
Freeman, The, 52
French, Fred F., 155
Freud, Sigmund, 79, 85–86, 87, 96, 172, 197, 306
Friday, David, 298
Fried, Captain, 183
“Friendly Enemies” (play), 11
Frost, Robert, 198
Frost, Stanley, 57
“Funny Face” (play), 255
Galsworthy, John, 255
Gates, Jack, 16
General Electric, 255, 269, 275, 276, 278, 284, 293
General Motors Corporation:
stock price of, 255, 256, 257, 258, 276, 293
Genna family, 225
George Washington (ship), 20
Germany:
financial relations with, 152
postwar, 15, 16, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26–27
Gerould, Katharine Fullerton, 53–54
Gershwin, George, 209
Giannini, A. P., 259
Gibbs, Sir Philip, 197
Gibson, Jane (“pig woman”), 185–186
Gilbert, Cass, 209
Gillette, William, 11, 25, 304
Glass, Carter, 267
Gold, accumulation of, 265, 298
Goldman, Sachs & Company, 275
Goodhue, Bertram G., 209
Gosden, Freeman F., 307
Grange, Lyle N., 180
Grange, Red, 179, 180–181, 234
Grant, Robert, 74
Gray, Gilda, 238
Gray, Judd, 186–187
Grayson, Adm. Cary T., 30
Great Depression:
causes of, 297–299
public attitude in, 309–310
Guaranty Trust Company, 286–287
Hagen, Walter, 179
Haldeman, George, 193
Hall, Rev. Edward Wheeler, 71, 184–186
Hall, Radclyffe, 103
Hall-Mills case, 71, 141, 161, 184–186
Hamilton, Mary Agnes, 97
Hammond, W. A., 72
Happiness Boys, 143
Harding, Florence, 112, 117, 133
Harding, Warren G., 106–119, 158
and election, 35–37, 61, 67, 122
inauguration of, 107–109
and peace with Germany, 34
personal traits of, 35–36, 108–111, 135
and prohibition, 217
and radio, 68
Harding Administration:
achievements of, 112–115
scandals of, 116, 117–136, 159, 274
Hardwick, Thomas R., 43
Harmon, Arthur Loomis, 209
Harper’s Magazine, 53–54, 99, 201, 207, 304–305
Hartswick, F. Gregory, 165
Harvard Business School, 153
Harvard Economic Society, 280–281
Harvey, Col. George, 36
Hately, C. F., 133
Hays, Arthur Garfield, 174, 175, 177
Hays, Will H., 88, 122–123, 127–128
Hemingway, Ernest, 201, 210, 305
Hill, Walter C., 240
Hindus, Maurice, 309
“Hindustan” (song), 10
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 43
Homosexuality, 202
Hoover, Herbert:
as Commerce Secretary, 115, 159
elections and, 129, 222, 260–264, 302
on end of poverty, 263, 295, 301
Harding and, 109, 110, 115, 118, 136
and naval treaty, 274, 279, 308
prosperity and, 152
and stock market crash, 266, 289, 295–297, 299, 301–302
Hostetter, Gordon L., 232
Hughes, Charles Evans, 60, 110, 113–115, 229
Hughes, Rupert, 204
Humanity Uprooted (Hindus), 309
Humphreys, Col. E. A., 121
Husting, Senator, 48
If Winter Comes (Hutchinson), 71
“I’ll Say She Does” (song), 10
“I Love You Sunday” (song), 10
I’m Alone (ship), 220
“I’m Always Chasing Rainbows” (song), 10
Immigration quotas, 113
and stock market, 252, 265, 268–269
Intellectual revolt, 195–211
arts and, 208–210
credo of, 202–205
disillusionment and, 197–199, 206
humanism and, 210–211
and regulation of personal conduct, 196–197
and sex freedom, 206–207
International Harvester, 265
Investment trusts, 271–272, 275, 279
“It Ain’t Gonna Rain No More” (song), 143
Italy, postwar, 26–27
It’s a Racket (Hostetter and Beesley), 232
Jacksonville, Florida, 236
Japan:
arms limitations, 113–115
oil reserves to, 129
“Japanese Sandman” (song), 10
Jazz, 9–10
Jews, anti-Semitism and, 54, 55–56, 57–59
John Brown’s Body (Benet), 210
“John Ferguson” (play), 11
Johnson, Alvin, 40
Johnson, Hiram, 35
Johnston, Alva, 193
Jones, Bobby, 4, 179, 180, 194, 275, 308
Joyce, James, 197
Joyce, Peggy, 186
Jung, Carl Gustav, 85, 172, 197
Jurgen (Cabell), 98
Kasson, Gunnar, 167
KDKA, Pittsburgh, 67
Kearns, Jack, 69
Kellogg, Paul U., 52
Kellogg-Briand Treaty, 158, 274
Kelly, Alvin Shipwreck, 194, 307–308
Kennedy, Madge, 11
Key Men of America, 134
Keynes, John Maynard, 197
Kiwanis Clubs, 154
Klein, Julius, 292
Klemfuss, Harry C., 184
“Knickerbocker Buckaroo, The” (film), 11
Knights of the Great Forest (KKK), 260
Knopf, Alfred A., 199
Kramer, John F., 215
Krutch, Joseph Wood, 105, 206, 207–208, 210, 305
Ku-Klux Klan (KKK), 56–60, 107, 162, 171, 260
Labor:
collective bargaining and, 40
racketeering and, 230–233
strikes, 7, 17–18, 40–41, 45–47, 48, 61, 113, 159
see also specific unions
Laddie Boy (dog), 109
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence), 98
La Follette, Robert M., 26
Lamont, Thomas W., 286–287, 296
Landis, Kenesaw Mountain, 43, 108
Land speculation, 234–250
Lardner, Ring, 210
League of Nations, 20–24, 26–29, 33, 37, 39, 162
League of Women Voters, 52, 83
Lefevre, Edwin, 273
Leopold and Loeb trial, 167, 175
Levermore, Charles H., 199
Levine, Charles A., 193
Lewis, Sinclair, 71, 198, 199, 210
Lewisohn, Ludwig, 255
Libby, Frederick J., 52
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 274
Lindbergh, Charles A.:
as hero, 190–192, 194, 254, 307
public acclaim for, 164, 188–90, 192
and public office, 41
and transatlantic flight, 3, 129, 141, 187–192
Lindsay, Vachel, 198
Lingle, Jake, 227–228
Lions Clubs, 154
Lippmann, Walter, 105, 170, 174, 200, 207, 210
“Listen, Lester” (play), 11
Literature, American, 209–210
Little-theater movement, 204–205
Lloyd George, David, 20, 21, 22, 24, 29
Loamas, Ralph Thomas, 209
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 20, 21, 25–26, 27–28, 33
Loos, Anita, 103
Louisville Courier-Journal, 168
Lowell, A. L., 74
Lowell, Amy, 198
Lowry, Edward G., 31, 109, 157
Lusk Report, 52
MacDonald, Ramsay, 274, 275, 279, 308
Macfadden, Bernarr, 87
Mackay, Ellin, 183
McKenzie, Voorhees & Gmelin, 209
McLean, Edward B., 124
McNary-Haugen bills, 159
McNeel, R. W., 281
McPherson, Aimee Semple, 183
Mafia, 228
Magnificent Ambersons, The (Tarkington), 11
Main Street (Lewis), 52, 71, 108, 198
Malone, Dudley Field, 175
Mammoth Oil Company, 119
Mandell, Max Solomon, 53
Manners, 103–104
Manning, Rev. William T., 116
Man Nobody Knows, The (Barton), 155–156, 234
Man o’War (horse), 69
Marathon dancers, 194
Marie, queen of Rumania, 184
Martin, John W., 236
Marvin, Fred R., 134
Masters, Edgar Lee, 198
Maynard, Lieutenant, 68
Means, Gaston B., 117, 130–131, 132–133
Mediterranean fruitfly, 244
Meehan, Michael, 143
Mellon, Andrew W.:
and bull market, 252, 265–266, 296
Harding and, 110
and prosperity, 152
and Teapot Dome, 127–129
as Treasury Secretary, 113, 265–266, 296
Mencken, H. L., 199–201, 203–204, 205–206, 209–210, 305
Menken, S. Stanwood, 51
Merrick, George Edgar, 238–239
Merz, Charles, 140–141, 169, 189, 213–214, 216
Mexia oil field, 121
Mexico, dispute with, 158
Miami, Florida, 235–236, 240, 242–245
Miami Beach, Florida, 238, 239, 240, 242
Middktown (Lynds), 53, 86–87, 91, 99, 141
Mid-West Garage Association, 231–232
Midwest Oil Company, 121
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 202
Miller, Col. T. W., 131
Miller, W. B., 168
Mills, Eleanor R., 71, 185–186
Mills, James, 186
“Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean” (song), 73, 142
Mitchell, Alice Miller, 88
Mitchell, Charles E., 267, 281–282, 286–287
Mitchell, Sidney Z., 271
Modern Temper, The (Krutch), 207–208, 210
Molly Maguires, 230
Montgomery Ward, 255, 258, 264, 265, 276, 284, 293
Moody’s Investors Service, 253, 256
Morality, 76–105
automobiles and, 86–87
censorship and, 88–89, 98, 103, 196, 201
frankness and, 96–99
movies and, 87–89
younger generation and, 76–80, 107–108, 303–305
Morgan, House of, 62–64, 286–287
Morgan, Howard, 176
Morgan, J. P., 43
Movies, 87–89
censorship of, 88–89
prosperity and, 144
Mulligan, “Cockeye,” 231–232
Music:
American, 208–209
jazz, 9–10
“My Rambler Rose” (song), 68
Nation, The, 52
National Association of Credit Men, 154
National Civic Federation, 52
National Information Bureau, 52
National Security League, 51
Naval Oil Reserves, 118–123
Nearing, Scott, 52
Negroes, prejudice and, 54–60
Newspapers:
in ballyhoo years, 163–164, 167–169, 186, 189
on morality, 79
New York American, 80
New York Call, 44
New York Central, 255, 276, 293
New York City:
as financial center, 62–64
suburbs of, 248–249
ticker tape parades in, 9, 14, 193, 308
New Yorker, 154, 204, 210, 303–304
New York Evening Post, 134
New York Evening World, 189, 301
New York Graphics, 187
New York Stock Exchange, 137
Black Tuesday, 289–291
crash and, 278–294
New York Times, 18, 33, 60, 73, 116, 134, 168
fashion pages, 77
financial pages, 253–254, 259–260, 280, 283, 290, 293
New York World, 48, 57, 165, 223
Nineteenth Amendment, 3, 45, 61–62, 83
Nitti, Francesco Saverio, 26
Non-Partisan League, 41
Norphelt, Arkansas, moral code of, 101
Now It Can Be Told (Gibbs), 197
Nurmi, Paavo, 167
O’Banion family, 225–227
O’Brien, Frederick, 71
O’Neil, James E., 121–122, 126
O’Neill, Eugene, 197, 202, 210
Organized crime, 224–233
Orlando, Vittorio Emanuele, 22, 24, 29
Orteig, Raymond, 187
Outline of History (Wells), 11, 70–71, 108, 151
Outline of Science (Thomson), 151
Overproduction, 297–298
Owen, George, 69
Palmer, A. Mitchell:
action against radicals, 30–31, 47–50, 60–61, 66, 75, 113
as the Fighting Quaker, 48, 49, 61, 66
Pan-American Company, 119
Paris, non-stop flights to, 187–192
Paris Peace Conference, 3, 5, 19, 20–26, 28–29, 32, 40, 43
Patton, R. A., 59
Payne, John Barton, 244
Penrose, Boies, 36–37
Petherbridge, Margaret, 165
Petronius, 197
Petting parties, 78–79, 99–100, 202
Pickford, Mary, 11
Pictorial Review, 99
Pinchot, Gifford, 159
Plastic Age, The (Marks), 79
Plumb Plan, 41
Point Counter Point (Huxley), 98
Ponzi, Charles, 61
Post, Emily, 151
Potter, William, 286–287
Prairie Oil Company, 121
Pratt, John T., 127
Preface to Morals, A (Lippmann), 105, 210
Printer’s Ink, 147
Progressive school movement, 204
bootleggers and, see Alcohol
effects of, 96
Eighteenth Amendment and, 10–11, 18, 86, 107, 212–215, 218, 221
enforcement of, 159, 214–220, 222
organized crime and, 224–233
politics and, 159, 162, 221–224, 260–261, 274
Volstead Act and, 45, 213, 216–217, 221
Prosperity:
consumption and, 145–146, 270, 272, 297–298
elections and, 261–264
investments abroad, 152
land speculation and, 237
mass production and, 162–163, 204, 297
presidency and, 159–160, 263, 295
purchasing power, 144
radios and, 142–143
reasons for, 144–148
religion and, 170–171
and stocks, see Stock market
Prosser, Seward, 286–287
Proust, Marcel, 197
Pulitzer Prize, 103
Queens, Borough of, 248
Queen Victoria (Strachey), 204
Bolshevism, 17, 19, 39–45, 47–52, 56, 65, 66, 196
deportation of, 49–50
Klan, 56–60
in media saturation, 164, 176, 179
prosperity and, 142–143
Scopes trial in, 176
sports broadcast via, 68–70, 143, 179, 182
Radio Corporation of America, stock price, 143, 255, 256, 257, 259, 264–265, 276, 278, 284, 293, 300
Rappelyea, George, 174–175
Raskob, John J., 256, 262, 270, 292
Ray, Joie, 167
Reader’s Digest, 146
Red scare, 39–65; see also Bolshevism; Communists
Reed, Jim, 26
Reisner, Rev. Christian F., 153
business and, 153–156
Fundamentalists vs. Modernists in, 173–178, 306
prosperity and, 170–171
Scopes trial, 169
skepticism in, 203
Remick, William H., 63–64
Republican Party:
and Harding scandals, 122, 127
and peace, 34–35
see also specific Republicans
Revelry (Adams), 117
Rinehart, Mary Roberts, 186
Rising Tide of Color (Stoddard), 55
“Road to Rome, The” (play), 97
Robinson, George Buchan, 272
Robinson, James Harvey, 52
Rockefeller, John D., 43
Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 126, 136, 274, 292
Rogers, Will, 52
Roosevelt, Theodore, 35, 60, 125
Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr., 60, 125
Rotary Clubs, 154
Roxy and his Gang, 143
Russian Famine Fund Committee, 51–52
Russian Five-Year Plan, 309
Russian Revolution, 41
Ruth, Babe (George Herman), 4, 69, 180, 194, 275, 308
Ryan, Michael J., 25–26
Saarinen, Eliel, 209
Sacco-Vanzetti case, 73–75, 107, 141, 194
St. Valentine’s Day massacre, 227
Salesmanship, 146–148
Sandburg, Carl, 198
Sarnoff, David, 73
Saturday Review of Literature, 210, 304
Schwed, Hermine, 52
and intellectualism, 198, 207–208
uncertainty and, 208
Scopes, John Thomas, 169, 174–175
Scopes trial, 169, 174–178, 200
Sedition Act, 49
Selling News, 147–148
Seppalla, Leonard, 167
Service clubs, 154
Sex:
freedom in, 202–205, 206–207, 303–304
importance of, 171
morality and, 85–86, 98, 99–103
Shenandoah (dirigible), 178–179
“Sherlock Holmes” (play), 304
Shiek, The (Hull), 71
“Shoulder Arms” (film), 11
“Show Boat” (play), 255
“Sidewalks of New York, The” (song), 167
Siegfried, André, 153
Silk stockings, 91
Silver, price of, 298
Simmons, Col. William Joseph, 56, 57
Simon, Richard, 165
Simon and Schuster, 165–166
Sinclair, Harry F., 116, 119–123, 126–129, 274
Sisson, Francis H., 148–151
Smart Set, 199
“Smiles” (song), 10
Smith, Alfred E., 51, 143, 167, 221, 260–263, 302
Smith, Moe, 219
Snyder, Albert, 186–187
So Big (Ferber), 165
Socialists, 17, 40, 41–45, 60–61, 309–310
Speakeasies, 86, 95, 218, 219, 225, 229
Speare, Dorothy, 77
Sports:
in ballyhoo years, 179–183
passing eras of, 308
radio and, 68–70, 143, 179, 182
Sprague, Jesse Rainsford, 147
Standard Oil Company of Indiana, 121–122, 136, 274
Standard Statistics Company, 280
Starr, Frances, 11
Stearns, Harold, 198
Stelzle, Rev. Charles, 170
Steuer, Max, 131–132
Stevens, Henry, 185
Stewart, Col. Robert W., 121–122, 126, 129, 136, 274
Stillman case, 70
Stock market:
Black Tuesday, 289–291
bull market, 251–277
convertible bonds and, 270
Curb Market, 8
and elections, 260–264
speculation in, 7–8, 145, 251–260, 264–269, 271–274, 276, 278–284, 288, 296
as too big to fail, 282
Stock prices, 8, 255–259, 264–268, 271–272, 275–277, 278–290, 292–293, 299–300; see also specific stocks
Stoddard, Lothrop, 55
Story of Mankind (Van Loon), 151
Story of Philosophy, The (Durant), 151
Strachey, Lytton, 204
Strange Death of President Harding, The (Means), 117
Strange Interlude (play), 97, 98, 202, 255
Straton, Rev. John Roach, 186, 187
Stratton, M.I.T. president, 74
Stribling, Rev. A. C., 200
“Strictly Dishonorable” (play), 97
Strikes, see Labor
Students’ Army Training Corps, 16
Suburbs, growth of, 247–249
Sullivan, Louis, 209
Sumner, John S., 202
Sun Also Rises, The (Hemingway), 98, 105
Sunday, Billy, 186–187
Survey, The, 52
Talley, Marion, 209
Talmadge, Constance, 11
Tampa, Florida, 239
Tarkington, Booth, 11
Taylor, Deems, 209
Teapot Dome scandal, 118–129, 156
Theater Guild, 11
This Side of Paradise (Fitzgerald), 78–79
Thompson, Charles Willis, 36
“Three Faces East” (play), 11
Three Soldiers (Dos Passos), 197
Tibbett, Lawrence, 209
“Tiger! Tiger!” (play), 11
Tilden, William T., Jr., 4, 194, 275, 308
Torrio, Johnny, 224
Tourism and travel, 151–152, 204
Townley, Arthur C., 41
True-Story, 87
Tulsa, race riots in, 55–56
Tunney, Gene, 4, 141, 181–183, 184, 229, 275, 308
Undying Fire, The (Wells), 11
Union League Club, 60
Unions, see Labor; specific unions
United Mine Workers, 41
United States Steel, 255, 269, 276, 278, 284, 291–292, 293
United War Work Fund, 16
“Up in Mabel’s Room” (play), 11
Utility holding companies, 271
Vanderblue, Homer B., 244
Van Dine, S. S. (pseud.), 255
Vera, Countess Cathcart, 183
Versailles, Treaty of, 3, 23–24, 27–29, 32–33, 45, 48, 107
Vestris, sinking of, 193–194
Veterans’ Bureau, 115, 129–130, 133
Victory Loan, 3
Villard, Henry S., 244
Villard, Oswald, 52
Volstead Act, 45, 213, 216–217, 221
Wahlberg, G. D., 125–126
Walker, Jimmy, 152
Walsh, Frank P., 25–26
Walsh, Thomas J., 123–125, 127–128, 134, 135
War:
demobilization, 16–17
Kellogg-Briand Treaty and, 158
prohibition and, 214
Warburg, Paul M., 280
Warfield, S. Davies, 236
Warrick, LaMar, 304–305
Wartime Prohibition Law, 10, 18
Washington, George, 204
Washington Close-ups (Lowry), 31
Washington Conference for the Limitation of Armaments, 113–115
Well of Loneliness (Hall), 98
Westinghouse Company, 12, 67, 255, 276, 293
“What Price Glory?” (play), 97, 304
White, Henry, 26
White, Pearl, 11
White, William Allen, 109, 118
Whitehead, Alfred North, 211
White Sewing Machine Company, 290
White Shadows of the South Seas (O’Brien), 71
Whitlock, Brand, 11
Whitman, Walt, 305–306
Whitney, Richard, 287–288, 289, 290–291, 292
Wickersham, George W., 222
Wickersham Commission, 219, 222–223, 274
Wiggin, Albert H., 286–287
Wilder, Thornton, 182
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21
Williams, Frederick Wells, 53
Wilner, Max, 232
Wilson, Woodrow, 19–38, 61, 308
illness and death of, 28–34, 37–38, 48, 107, 162, 165
and League of Nations, 20, 21, 22–24, 26–29, 33, 37, 39
opposition to, 19, 21–22, 25–30, 33–34, 82, 108, 158, 216
and Paris Conference, 19, 20–26, 28–29, 32, 40, 43
personal traits of, 22, 32, 35–36, 108–109
and prohibition, 213
and Versaille Treaty, 23–24, 27–29, 32–33, 107
Winkler, Max, 265
Wise, Rabbi Isaac M., 52
Women:
beauty shops and, 92
and birth control, 101–102
cosmetics used by, 2, 77, 92–93
drinking, 10, 77, 78, 81, 86, 95–96
equality for, 83
fashions and, 2–3, 77, 80, 89–94, 254, 302–303
hairstyles, 91–92
independence of, 83–85
smoking, 11, 77, 78, 81, 94–95
voting rights of, 3, 45, 61–62, 83
working, 84–85
Women’s International League, 17
Woodward, W. E., 204
Woolworth Building, 209
Woolworth Company, 256, 276, 293
World’s Work, 170
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 209
Yale Athletic Association, 179
Yellow Bird (plane), 274
“Yes, We Have No Bananas” (song), 73, 165
York, Sgt. Alvin, 5
Young, Joseph W., 239
Young, Owen D., 152
Y.W.C.A., 80
Zaba, Mary, 166
Ziegfeld Follies (1922), 68
ZR-3 dirigible, 190