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TIME The 1920s

The Era of Prosperity The new beginning of technology and fashion

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Table of Contents Cover Page-The Twenties ..………………………....…………..……………......….….1 Table of Contents ……………………….……….…………………………..…....….......2 Letter from the Editors ..…………….………..…………………..……….....……..........3 Advertisement- watches...............................................................................................

4 Letters to the Editor ……………………….……………...……………………....…... 5-6 Briefing ...………………………………….……………………..……………....….....… 7 Advertisement- dishes………………………….………………………......…..………. 8 Politics Article-”Politics”.…………….………….…………………………...……….9-10 Society Article- “Society of Our Time- The Twenties” ..............................................11 Economy Article- “Is the Economy Getting Rocky?” ...............................................12 Advertisement- camera……………………………..……….…………………........... 13 Feature Article- “The Roaring Twenties: Clash Between Youth and Adults” ..........

14-15 Advertisement- makeup……………………………………………......……....…….... 16 Entertainment Article- “Entertainment in the 1920s” ……………………...………... 17 Sports Article- “The Golden Age of Sports” …………………………….….......…... 18 Interview- “10 Questions” ….……………………………………………..…..........…. 19 Bibliography ………………………..……………………..………………….…….. 20-21

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Twenties- A Decade of Change Dear readers, Di mi! This decade has really been the bee’s knees. From the flappers to the radio; there are so many new things. There have also been changes in lifestyles and value systems. For example, many more people are moving to the cities, especially youth, are enjoying a more relaxed lifestyle.

Roles for women have changed. Americans have a bunch of new pastimes and entertainment is changing. The economy is surging and, there are many products (such as appliances) to buy. There is no more war and life is just the frog’s eyebrows.

Women are now working more and more outside the home; even after they are married! With new appliances, cooking has become less time-consuming and women can do more of the things they want. Young women, especially, are finding a new sense of independence. They are becoming: smoke eaters, wearing shorter dresses (something that wouldn’t be accepted a decade before), they’re wearing their hair in short bobs; they’re going out to blows and drinking. They are setting a new precedent for women everywhere. On another note, traditionalists don’t like the new idea of how woman can act. They think these behaviors will destroy families.

Americans have a bunch of new pastimes, including baseball. Who doesn’t want to watch Babe Ruth hit a home run?

He makes the game of baseball exciting to watch. Listening to the radio is now the new thing. Jazz music is very fresh and exciting now. This is the decade for fun and it’s shown by all these new types of entertainment, which will be explored indepth later in this magazine.

Babe Ruth The whole idea of marketing has really expanded during this time. Billboards are everywhere! More and more stores are opening. There is just so much to buy!

Stores are competing more and more for all the customers. They are constantly trying to think of new and better products and ways to sell them.

All in all, there is just a plethora of new things to gossip about. This includes: prohibition (for it or against it), religion vs. science, the old way vs. the new way, rural life vs. urban life, the economy, progressive vs. conservative policies, isolationism, the role of women in society, new technologies, entertainment etc.

We report with the highest quality standards. We collected countless interviews and data. We chose these articles to show you the big divide between youth and adult culture during this time period.

Thank you for using our magazine as your trusted source.

Sincerely, your editors

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Letters to the Editor Dear editors, Your article about the case of Scopes vs. Tennessee trial is the frog’s eyebrows. I am interested to see if Scopes gets charged for breaking the law or not. I am pro-science in the case of the Scopes trial.

It’s definitely clear that he was teaching evolution in science class. You would think that this would automatically make him a law-breaker. But, when teaching evolution he never denied creationism.

Testimony from different religious leaders prove that Darwinism doesn’t 100% contradict the bible; unless you take a literal interpretation. There are ways to merge the two subjects, and this is what many modernists believe, (religion and science can co-exist.)

I think that religion and science are two very different subjects and shouldn't be taught in replace another. "Religion is a book of morals not science." Darwin's theory is well-known and accepted by scientists from every field. There is a lot proof for this theory including: the discovery of Neanderthals, and new fossils which shows natural selection. The textbook Scopes used was also approved by the state of Tennessee so, he isn’t all at fault. This book has parts in it which teach evolution. "You can't teach this textbook without teaching evolution.”

The most important part of this trial, I believe, is to decide if the Butler Act is really constitutional. I don’t believe it is, because, it violates freedom of speech and the establishment clause. Under the establishment clause, (separation of church and state), the government cannot promote any certain religion. This means the state cannot teach creationism without teaching passages of other holy books from other religions in the subject of science. This would also mean science wouldn’t be standardized and would be taught in different ways. Tennessee violated his right to free speech, and his right to believe in evolution. They also violated the freedom of religion clause in the First Amendment. The Butler Act goes against the part in Tennessee's constitution where it states that they cherish science. If the Butler Act is really unconstitutional then this case against him is static.

Dear editors, I strongly agree with your article about prohibition of alcohol. Drinking is just blaah. Some people didn’ t agree with me and to this day they are known as the “wets.” They disagreed with the Eighteenth Amendment; which prevented the manufacture, sale, or transport of alcohol in the United States. But the “drys,” who I agree with, strongly agreed with the Eighteenth Amendment. It all started on January 16, 1919, when Congress ratified the Eighteenth Amendment by a ⅔ of the state's approval. 7 months passed and enough states had already said yes, a year later, the Amendment took place.

It was good news for the “drys” because they supported prohibition of alcohol. Drys were mostly from rural areas, small towns and villages. John F. Kramer said, “I will enforce the Amendment where it is not obeyed...” He believed that alcohol was the main reason people would commit crimes and didn’t follow the rules. I strongly agree with him because, I believe that drinking leads to an unsteady or bad society.

No man wants his country at that stage.

The “wets,” disagreed with the prohibition. They were mostly people who lived in large cities. Fiorello H. LaGuardia, a famous mayor in New York, was one of the people who were strongly anti-prohibition. They thought that it should be legal to use alcohol in public places, when needed, like for pleasure or medical purposes. A lot of doctors would write prescriptions for people, for “medical purposes” which weren’t true.

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Letters to the Editor Dear editors, The girls of the 20s, the ones that call themselves “flappers,” aren’t just about bobbed hair and short skirts. Instead, they are more like female revolutionaries who are changing the world for women— forever.

Before World War 1, a woman never worked outside the home or worked after she was married.

During the war more women contributed and, got more jobs and continued too after the war. Most women had jobs working at telephone industries. In the political scene, women were getting elected and becoming senators.

There are many flappers in this new era. Flappers are women that do rebellious things: like kissing their boyfriends, sitting behind wheels of cars, smoking in public, and cutting their hair short, etc. Some people consider these actions to be ritzy burg. These actions also didn't make parents very happy.

Flappers are changing the way society views women because of how independent and surprising they are.

Dear editors, I really enjoyed your article in TIME magazine about urban life. I urge everyone to move to the cities and out of the rural areas of this country. If they don’t like this money-earning lifestyle; I’ll show them why they should move to the big cities and make 'em change their minds. In the cities, we have a blast! I live in New York, the biggest city in this country, and I love it here!

It is very industrialized; there are a bunch of jobs and economic opportunities. Currently the majority of the US population live in urban areas. When the population increases so, does the size and number of cities. Populations from city to city vary greatly. All of these rural areas have formed a network of cities over the past few years. Bigger cities rely on smaller cities and smaller cities rely on bigger cities.

Sure rural areas are peaceful and they have their old-school charm, but you don’t have that same excitement and that sense of something new that you get in the cities. In rural areas, finding a job is a big issue. When I was there, there weren't many opportunities left. There is only so much work that can be done on a farm nowadays; we have tractors and other machinery to do most of the work for us. There's no point in having a bunch of extra people doing nothing on farms and living "old style" when they could be in the big cities earning buckets of money every week! Like I said above, there are so many more job and economic opportunities in the cities. Plus, living in the cities is just berries!

Dear editors, I truly don’t understand why people are starting to move to the urban life when the rural life is simply the cat’s particulars! We were the foundation for building a modern life. I believe that we were the first to have the idea of opportunity and independence. We gave Americans and immigrants a taste of what it is like to own land and riches. The cities might have produced the heavy-duty weaponry but, without us growing and harvesting crops, the American troops in World War I would have been defeated.

In the rural life, we hold strong communities, we gather together to go to the fields for religious revivals. This is something that the people in the urban life are missing out on; everybody is in a rush and they don’t have the time to create close communities. People from all the farming states, both Democrats and Republicans, have created a “Farm Bloc.” This is where we discuss farmers’ issues and we share crops with other farmers to help one another with the crops. I don’t understand why anyone would want to move to the new, when the old is the bee’s knees. We were the beginning, without us, the people in the 6 urban life wouldn’t be there at all!

Population: 106, 491, 000 Urban: 54% vs.

Rural: 52%

Urban life

Rural life

Life expectancy: (male)53.6 years (female)54.6

Average salary: $1, 236 30% of land is farming Unemployed: 2, 132, 000 people

Federal budget: $6.4 billion National debt: $23.7 million

~Entertainment~ Attendance Movies(weekly): 33 million people

Baseball(yearly): 9.3 million people

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Politics In the 1920’s there was a big Conservative movement; this was a contrast from the decade before which had been very progressive. This was made clear in the election of the next 3 Republican Presidents, starting with Warren G. Harding.

After the war, people wanted normalcy, something Warren G. Harding promised to give to the people. I interviewed Bobby Smith from South Carolina, “I want the America before mechanized war, revolutionary politics, and women’s rights. A simpler America.” Warren G. Harding promised us peace and restoration. He promised policies to help the United States, and had more of an isolationist viewpoint; people were sick of war. He disagreed with the League of Nations, promised no progressive reforms, and enforced prohibition. When he was elected; he lowered taxes, reduced government spending, and didn’t get involved with other nation’s conflicts. In his term, there was basically no regulation of Wall Street. His whole campaign and presidency was based on getting back to pre-war America, normalcy.

The idea of normalcy seemed like a good idea on paper. But, normalcy is very vague. Normalcy was this idea of an absolutely perfect America that never really existed. Normalcy wasn’t necessarily standardized so, there were many definitions of it. Not everyone yearned for pre-war America, the youths. Plus, Warren G. Harding didn’t want to remove any previous progressive reforms made in the earlier years. This contradicted the idea of normalcy, where one would even have to get rid of the new technologies because, it’s pre-war America.

Warren G. Harding left office with a high approval rating. This was later overshadowed by scandals by his Ohio Gang (the members in his cabinet and most trusted advisors.) These scandals were uncovered after his death. This included the Teapot Dome Scandal where one of his top advisors was found guilty of leasing government land (illegally), and taking bribes from oil companies. Some of his other advisors were found guilty of corruption. This really destroyed his reputation, seeing as he really relied on these people for policy ideas.

He was later succeeded by Calvin Coolidge, nicknamed Silent Cal. He had a small town image; didn’t smoke, drink, or gamble. He even swore into office in the parlor of his own home. He had a very stern character, which had a different tone from the rest of the nation; filled with illegal drinking and flappers. He had very similar ideas to Warren G. Harding including: small government and imposing tax cuts. He also had a very laissez-faire approach when it came to government. (When Calvin left office, he was very popular, and to the surprise of the public, decided not to run again.)

Calvin Coolidge

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Under these 2 presidents, you had the roaring twenties, a time when the economy was surging, and everything seemed like the cat’s pajamas. No one predicted that there would be such economic devastation just around the corner.

Herbert Hoover, a proven humanitarian, succeeded him. He had huge public support. He ran with the slogan of “final triumph over poverty.” This would come back to bite him. He enforced prohibition and opposed farm subsidies. He lowered taxes and was in favor of small government just like the other Republican presidents before him.

Then, suddenly, we had the big crash and the now we are in the Great Depression. These 3 president's policies didn’t help to prevent this situation. None of them attempted to regulate Wall Street; they exercised no controls over banking, manufacturing, and agricultural production.

There wasn't much bank supervision. Lack of action by the Federal Reserve System didn’t help stop the stock market crash. Many rural banks failed. The banks that did survive, decided to pay higher and higher interest rates to get customers.

They also made loans very easy to get so, when nobody could pay their loans back; the banks failed.

Unequal distribution of wealth became a problem. The top 0.1 percent of American families had a combined income equal to the total income of the bottom 42 percent of the population. A lot of the tax cuts imposed, were for the rich (helped to cause more of a wealth distribution issue.)

Herbert Hoover

Overproduction of crops created a big problem under Hoover; it lowered the price of crops so much, that farmers had to foreclose their farms (affected 25% of the population.) This also affected the rural banks who loaned them money; some of them had to close down.

The rise of unemployment (partly caused by overproduction of consumer goods by factories.) The factories made too many goods and with no one buy them, they had to lay off large numbers of workers in order to save money.

This "get rich quick" attitude, was another cause, many Americans started to recklessly spend their money and invest in the stock market.

With such a demand in stocks; the prices went surging. The stock owners had no one to buy their stock because they were way too expensive. This caused them to frantically try to sell it, and the stock market to crash when they couldn’t sell quick enough. American families relied on the stock market to become rich; they lost a lot of money in the crash. 80% of the population had no savings.

The Great Depression is a huge problem going on now and some families are struggling to get by. Herbert Hoover is attempting to fix these issues. Hopefully, the economy just bounces back.

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Society of Our Time- The Twenties This decade has been full of new and exciting things. With these new inventions and ways of life, come various problems.

From immigration to the Ku Klux Klan, we’ve got it all in good ‘ol America!

Overall, there were drastic results in the number of immigrants. Immigration decreased by 50%. Even with these laws, religious intolerance grew. There has been an increase of intolerance and hostility towards any non-white group of people.

All of these problems have started with the idea of nativism; the policy of favoring the interests of native-born people over those of immigrants. Right now, Americans don’t want immigrants because of three main reasons: it would relieve urban crowding and reduce ethnic conflict, the immigrants would never fully be American, and immigrants are taking jobs away from Union workers.

Have you been out late at night lately? The Ku Klux Klan goes out at night in search of Catholics, blacks, Jews, radicals, and bootleggers. They think that Jews will dominate the economic life of the nation and, that Catholics will eventually dominate political and religious life. They don’t want black Americans to keep advancing and competing with whites. Those of us who oppose these ethnic and religious groups usually join the Klan. Some people refer to them as "domestic terrorists".

In an attempt to fix the immigration issue, immigration laws were put into place. Americans didn't want groups of foreign- born people immigrating into the United States.

The Emergency and Immigration Act of 1921 was passed. It capped the number of people allowed into the country each year to 375,000. It established a quota system.

The quota systems allowed limited numbers of people depending on the country. Three percent of the immigrants living in a country, in 1910, could come to the US. This system wasn’t working so, they passed a stricter law; The Immigration Act of 1924. This law reduced the number of immigrants from 375,000 to 164,000 people. It also cut back the quotas and banned immigrants from Asia. This quota only allowed two percent of immigrants from certain countries to come and changed the base year to 1890.

The goal of the Klan is to spread fear and dread. They torture and murder their victims.

The Ku Klux Klan is not a new idea.

Members first organized themselves after the Civil War to help the Southern reconstruction. The Ku Klux Klan faded in 1915 but, colonel William Joseph Simmons revived the Klan secretly. Edward Y. Clark joined and made it grow rapidly. The New York World newspaper first exposed the activities of the Ku Klux Klan.

Currently the klan has become very politically powerful, but that hasn’t been their only success. Millions of members have joined the klan since.

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Economy is Getting Rocky?

By: Mya Nguyen Radios and automobiles are the new things that everybody is talking about! About forty percent of American families own a radio and one out of every six people own an automobile.

Automobiles are giving both rural and urban consumers more freedom, and radios are becoming a good source for business opportunities and news.

Now that automobiles are making stores more accessible many businesses are starting to advertise their business in the radios. The F. W. Woolworth Company uses a tactic to draw in housewives called “Ma and Pa” operation, where they create five or ten-cent variety stores. The stores are more directed to lower-income consumers and are expanding more into the working-neighborhoods.

More chain and departments stores are starting to open. Sears started as a mail-order company and is now starting to go into direct retailing and has opened three hundred twentyfour stores nationwide.

The more chain and department stores started to open up the more consumers started to buy.

Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover

Now that we have credit, you can buy anything that you want, like those pair of diamond earrings you saw or the new version of the Cadillac.

Credit allows us to buy things that we can’t even afford! Isn’t that just berries? Not really. People were noticing the banks are getting lethargic on the requirements for credits and loans are building up to more than four billion dollars that are available to us, Americans. The Revenue Act has given us relief for some time now. But with President Coolidge stepping out of the office and President Hoover stepping in, who know what will happen to the economy.

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The Roaring Twenties: Clash Between Youth and Adults Have you ever been in a movie theater or a jazz club?

This time period is considered the modern age. modern age because; a lot of new products and human behaviors are coming out: such as, the dating life of teenagers, flappers, and the freedom of the youth.

Also, new entertainments, such as: movie theaters, cars, sports, radios, and jazz clubs. Also, in this decade, women gained the right to vote and are becoming more independent every day!

Some are taking it to a whole other level, the Flappers!

Traditionalists are people who believe that the traditional values are just berries. They believe that the youth culture is denigrating family values, that they are just blaah. They believe women should have traditional roles as wives and mothers. They also that believe women should be involved in social work and not work for pay: be able to cook well, be resourceful in the house, and take care of the children and the home. They believe that people should work hard and save their money. They are very strong supporters of prohibition.

They don’t like these new women that are going to a blow.

They are not fans of these new and “daring” ideas.

Modernists are generally youth and women. They are very open to new ideas and are constantly changing old ideas of American life. As business and technology roles change, women and youth of this country are also branching off into new directions. For example, voting rights for women are now equal to those of men. This is leading to other changes in women’s traditional roles as mothers. During the war, the youth experienced independence while everyone else was in Europe. When the soldiers came back, the youth expected the same freedom as before but, that wasn’t the case. Also, cultural and social attitudes are changing throughout our new print media inventions.

One of the popular dances today that everybody has to know is the Charleston. This dance became popular from the Broadway musical, Runnin’ Wild.

This dance fits well with ragtime jazz and festive flappers. The dance requires people to sway their arms and, fast movements of the feet with quick 4/4 syncopated rhythms. Another dance that is wildly popular is the Foxtrot, a slow dance that ties in well with sweet jazz and requires a partner. The dance is mostly graceful and smooth walking while holding hands with your partner.

Flappers are helping create the fashion icon of this decade. Their bobbed hair and brightly colored lipstick are the cat’s particulars! Abandoning those corsets for smoking out in public places makes their style look courageous. Their care-free spirit ties well with their thin, short skirts and dresses. Not only are the women making fashion statements, the men are too!

Many college men are wearing raccoon coats. Raccoon coats are full-length dusters that reach to the ground. They have exaggerated collars with swank buttons. The coats became popular by George Olsen and his music. Olsen and his band wrote a song called, “Doin’ the Raccoon,” it describes: rough/tough guys, this coaxed many men into wearing these stylish coats.

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Cultural and social attitudes are changing and spreading through printed media: like magazines, newspapers, and tabloids. These sources of media are communicating: ideas, innovative thoughts, and the latest discoveries.

Although newspapers are not really popular anymore, they talk about important and entertaining topics. They talk about: national issues, promote wire services, and reporters provide news and opinions. Americans learn a lot of new ideas, trends, and fashion from the newspaper today.

Tabloids nowadays are the new thing that everyone is reading from. Tabloids are “The new newspaper”- they are printing sensational and shocking stories and exciting new discoveries. They also talk about popular musical topics too, like the blues! The blues originated from the 1800s, that Africa originated in the 1800s. African Americans created this type of music to express their hardships in life.

Throughout these years, the blues has developed into more upbeat music to fit with our fast paced and flashy life. Rural acoustic blues and urban blues are the frog’s eyebrows nowadays. They are becoming more popular because, the new style of blues related to the quicker pace of life and have new distinct styles that are the bee’s knees. One of the famous musicians that helped Rural acoustic and urban blues become famous is, Muddy Waters. Muddy Waters started off with acoustic blues and didn’t become famous until he got an electric guitar; he gave the blues a more electric sound that made all our ears perk in admiration.

Traditionalists and adults don’t like the new behaviors of the youth now. They think that it will ruin families. They don’t like the new short dresses, the jazz music, the smokers, the barlows, or the weeds. They think that these actions are ritzy burg. They also disapprove of the illegal drinking that has gone on at these clubs and bars.They don’t like that young women were out in clubs instead of at home.

They think this behavior is immoral, reckless, and rebellious.

They are worried that this behavior is not just a fad and that it will spread among the generations.

The traditionalists don’t like that these new values that seem to be replacing the old ones. They prefer the values of pre-war America.

Adults in this time period are trying as hard as they can to stop youth from acting out; one of these ways they use to do this is censorship.

Traditionalists pull books off the shelves that they think are immoral and can affect the youth’s behavior negatively. Another way they use censorship is by asking the movie industry to reduce sexual scenes in movies. Some movie companies are cooperating and some are not.

Legislation want the rebellious youth to change the way they present themselves in public. The government discourage women from wearing short skirts and skimpy swimsuits. Police officers often go to beaches with yard sticks to look for offenders. Traditionalists in many communities passed laws designed to prevent women from appearing in public in immodest clothing.

Many parents and adults hope that young Americans will not “act out” because they think that the next generation will be ending up being just as rebellious. They consider these behaviors to be reckless and immoral. Many parents nag their kids to not be flappers or rebellious but, some young girls aren’t listen. Parents hope for their kids to be the best; they think this will be achieved by ending their dating life and getting married.

This clash between youth and adults is significant because it has formed a new way of life in America. Some people are dressing differently and have new attitudes, but others are sticking to the old school way of life. The adults aren’t so into this new, flapper, and drinking way of life. On the other hand, the youth aren’t agreeing with everything the traditionalists have had to say.

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Entertainment in The 1920s Entertainment is a big part of life. Nowadays people are introducing new ways to entertain themselves, other than playing flat-tire games.

Americans are introducing: new sports, movies, cars radios, and art. The Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, the Ballyhoo Years, these are names given to the 1920s.

First thing, is the radio, almost every house now has one. All American families are listening to the same broadcasts. The first national radio broadcast was heard on November 1920 in the United States.

The first song that reflected the growing emphasis of the American culture was, “Ain’t we got fun” More than 12 million families are now listening to the radio on a daily basis. Phonograph records, sports, national news, and music are announced on these broadcasts.

Di Mi! Who doesn't know the famous baseball player Babe Ruth? George Herman "Babe" Ruth, Jr. is an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons, with 714 home runs. Baseball is the number 1 sport in America now. Famous baseball players, like Ruth, make people travel to cities just to watch their games. Sports are the second most enjoyable thing people watch, listen to, or play in the right now. Some of the sports Americans enjoying now are: baseball, boxing, and football. Sports are now becoming businesses too. On weekends, families gathered to blouse to the stadium; to watch a game or listen to it on the radio.

If you haven't heard of jazz by now, then you are a smith brother. Jazz is the music that originally came from New Orleans and Louisiana and then it spread to all over America. Jazz is a barneymugging type of entertainment. In each city, there is a jazz club or band Flappers and corn shredders gather for the music and the blow.

If you haven't heard of Al Jolson; you're a smith brother. Al Jolson is a Russian-born U.S. singer, songwriter, and a blackface comedian. He performed in vaudeville and in minstrel shows; he starred in The Jazz Singer. He has a blushing violet because of his black face makeup; critics are seeing Jolson as a racist egomaniac. Others disagree and think that his fame is well-deserved.

Movie theaters are most attended now. Over 40 million people went to the movies by 1922 and, it’s increasing day by day. Petting pantries are bringing the young and old living in cities and rural areas. Some movie theaters are silent, they don't connect sound. The ones that have sound have more people attending; they are making more money.

In New York, Broadway musicals are becoming popular on the radio. They include some popular music and songs including: “Ol’ Man River,” “How Boat,” and “I Want to Be Happy.” It creates unique American drama. The Emperor Jones is the first American series 17 written by a white author that featured blacks in starring roles.

The Golden age of Sports Babe Ruth, one of the best in baseball, was purchased by the Yankees in the 1920s for $125,000.

He has won 3 World Series since and has lost none. He has made his 60th homer of the season, a new major league record. There were so many people at his games that they need to build a new stadium known as the Polo Ground! It should hold about 65,000 people. Every time he goes to play, there are at least 8000 people there to see him. His career spanned about 22 seasons.

Gertrude Ederle, is an American professional swimmer and Olympic champion. She was a former world record holder for 5 events. She was the first woman to ever swim the English Channel, which is 32 miles long. Di mi! That’s a lot of swimming!

It took her about 14 hours and 31 min while taking breaks every several hours. When she finished on the beach, she refused to get medical help when needed. She has received an official welcome at the City Hall of New York.

Robert Tyre “Bobby” Jones Jr. was an amateur golfer; he was the only British player, playing on American grounds. Great Britain is his home land. Great Britain is his home land.

He founded and helped to design the Augusta National Golf Club; he co-founded the Masters tournament.

His name is also engraved on its Silver Sides along with other famous player. They all achieved personal victories of being a really good professional golfer.

Jack Dempsey, an American professional boxer, became a cultural icon. He was named the heavyweight champion of the world in 1919. He lost his title once but, at the first time opportunity; he reclaimed it. This was the Dempsey/Tunney fight.

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The Glorious Clara Bow Clara, I heard you had a rough childhood can you tell the readers a little bit about that?

Of course, I was very lonesome, frightened, and miserable. I grew up in a tenement where my parents struggled with poverty. My father was abusive to my mother and me, and my mother had schizophrenia. When she was institutionalized; she passed away.

I am very sorry to hear that so, how did you get into the film industry?

I was first discovered when I entered in, “The Fame and Fortune Contest” and it just took off from there! I was then assigned a role as a shop girl in “It.” Before entering in the film industry what were you doing then?

I worked at a hotdog stand in Coney Island, as a teenager with Nathan Handwerker, that later made his own stand called “Nathan’s Franks.”

How does it feel like to be an idol to teenage girls and, to the public’s eye?

I like to loosen young Americans from the restrictive Victorian morals that our parents have been raised with. So, I’m overjoyed to see that many people feel that way too.

There have been a lot of rumors of you going to court. What is going on?

Yes, there has been rumors floating around about my sexuality. I have been going to court because I have been accused of stealing women’s husbands.

Do you enjoy going to your movie premieres?

I actually prefer to play poker with my cook, maid, and chauffeur. I’ d rather not attend movie premieres where people shun me and say hurtful rumors about me.

How is your relationship with your father?

I have brought him down to live with me in Hollywood, despite him being abusive. He is still my father. I gave him large sums of money to help him maintain a healthy lifestyle, but he has used me for booze and to pick up the ladies. He is such a dewdropper!

Are you and Bela Lugosi still dating?

No, as you know I am a fire bell. I am happily married to Rex Bell with two sons. Rex Bell Jr. and George Robert.

Do you have any childhood friends?

No, girls shunned me because I was so poorly dressed - the worst looking kid on the street. I decided that girls weren't any good, being lonely and needing child friends, cast my lot with the neighborhood boys. I became a regular tomboy; I played baseball, football and learned to box. I used to have a friend named Johnny but, he burned to death at the age of ten, in my arms. I still cry whenever I hear “Rock-A-Bye Baby” because it reminds me of him.

Anything else that has happened to you, that has significantly impacted your life?

I have recently been diagnosed with schizophrenia; I will be going through some shock therapies. Wish me luck! I will soon be back onto my feet and acting in movies that are the bee’s knees!

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