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Marilyn Lloyd, American politician and businesswoman (d. 2018) Gordon Moore, American computing entrepreneur and benefactor, inventor of Moore's Law (d. 2023) January 4 – Darrell Mudra, American football coach (d. 2022) January 5. Wilbert Harrison, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1994) Robert K. Massie, American journalist and ...
The American economist Charles P. Kindleberger of long-term studying of the Great Depression pointed out that in the 1929, before and after the collapse of the stock market, the Fed lowered interest rates, tried to expand the money supply and eased the financial market tensions for several times; however, they were not successful.
It was praised by Ray Long, editor of Cosmopolitan, for describing the complete story of Coolidge's life and "the complete story of our country during the dramatic years of this generation." [2] Coolidge was one of the first U.S. Presidents to write and publish an autobiography. Coolidge's autobiography covers all the notable moments in his ...
After a month, the shipping companies negotiated directly with Bishop Quigley and the new union, effectively cutting Conners out of the grain business. [4] Conners was president of the Vulcanite Asphalt Paving Company and the Magnus Beck Brewing Company. He also owned a lot of real estate and helped develop property in South Buffalo.
1930 - Sinclair Lewis is the first American to win Nobel Prize for Literature; 1931 – Empire State Building opens in New York. 1931 – Japanese invasion of Manchuria, start of World War II in the Pacific. 1931 – The Whitney Museum of American Art opens to the public in New York City.
Teddy Roosevelt, the Bull Moose, led American progressives in the early 20th century. 1906 – San Francisco earthquake; 1907 – Oklahoma becomes a state; 1907 – Gentlemen's Agreement; 1907 – Coal mine explodes in Monongah, West Virginia, killing at least 361. Worst industrial accident in American history. 1908 – Ford Model T appears on ...
America has always had a gun problem, but never on this scale. Every day, 327 people are shot in the United States , more than a hundred of them fatally. And the numbers are rising.
Ex-Wife is a 1929 novel written by Ursula Parrott and reissued by McNally Editions in 2023 with an afterword by Marc Parrott, the author's son, and a foreword by Alissa Bennett, a writer for the Paris Review.