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Wiggin and J.P. Morgan, Jr. in 1917 in Manhattan at a war bond parade. Albert Henry Wiggin (February 21, 1868 – May 21, 1951) was an American banker.General Electric's Owen D. Young once described him as "the most colorful and attractive figure in the commercial banking world" of his time. [1]
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 .
The rioting, initiated in part when British police tore down a screen the Jews had constructed in front of the Wall, [1] continued until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Palestinians were killed. [2] [3] Early in 1929, the Afghan Civil War saw the Afghan leader King Amanullah lose power to the Saqqawists under Habibullāh ...
The Great Depression was a severe global economic downturn from 1929 to 1939. The period was characterized by high rates of unemployment and poverty ; drastic reductions in liquidity , industrial production, and trade; and widespread bank and business failures around the world.
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.
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933.A wealthy mining engineer before his presidency, Hoover led the wartime Commission for Relief in Belgium and was the director of the U.S. Food Administration, followed by post-war relief of Europe.
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]
His non-fiction book Rope and Faggot: A Biography of Judge Lynch (1929) was a study of lynching. Additional books were A Rising Wind (1945, which inspired Nevil Shute to write the popular novel The Chequer Board two years later), [47] his autobiography A Man Called White (1948), and How Far the Promised Land (1955).