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In November 1929, U.S. Senator Carter Glass said, "Mitchell more than any 50 men is responsible for this stock crash." [3] Mitchell's townhouse on Fifth Avenue, built for him by Walker & Gillette in 1926, with a rusticated facade in the manner of a 16th-century Roman palazzo, now houses the Consulate General of France, New York City. [citation ...
Frank Owen Gehry was born Frank Owen Goldberg on February 28, 1929, in Toronto, Ontario, [4] [5] to parents Sadie Thelma (née Kaplanski/Caplan) and Irving Goldberg. [6] His American father was born in New York City to Russian-Jewish parents, and his Polish-Jewish mother was an immigrant born in Łódź, Poland .
Hugh Newell Jacobsen (March 11, 1929 – March 4, 2021) was an American architect. He was noted for designing Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis ' home in Martha's Vineyard during the 1980s. He also restored part of the U.S. Embassy in Paris , as well as Spaso House in Moscow.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, 1928–1930. The "Roaring Twenties", the decade following World War I that led to the crash, [4] was a time of wealth and excess.Building on post-war optimism, rural Americans migrated to the cities in vast numbers throughout the decade with hopes of finding a more prosperous life in the ever-growing expansion of America's industrial sector.
January 14, 1929: King Amanullah of Afghanistan forced to flee rebels. January 7, 1929: "Buck Rogers, 2429 A.D." comic strip envisions the world 500 years later January 17, 1929: Rebel Islamic leader Habibullah Kalakani invades Kabul, proclaims himslef as new King of Afghanistan January 7, 1929: U.S. Army Air Force plane Question Mark sets new record by staying aloft almost a week with aerial ...
In October 1929, the Wall Street Crash occurred and the Great Depression in the United States began. [124] Roosevelt saw the seriousness of the situation and established a state employment commission. He also became the first governor to publicly endorse the idea of unemployment insurance. [125]
In 2010, DNA testing on James's great-grandson, Martin III by 23andMe confirmed that the King's family Y-chromosome lineage originated from Ireland. [3] King married Delia Linsey (1875–1924) in 1895, and they both worked as sharecroppers , in Henry County and Clayton County in Georgia , and then Stockbridge, Georgia where they settled and ...
Roy A. Young was born on May 17, 1882, to James Wilson Young a miller and millwright from Ontario, Canada and Julia Healy an Irish immigrant in Marquette, Michigan. [2] Young was a messenger for a bank at the age of eight. He then worked as assistant cashier and joined the Citizens National Bank as vice president in 1913. [3]