Author: John FullerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780874405576
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Roaring Roaring Twenties Scrapbook
Author: John FullerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780874405576
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Roaring Twenties Scrapbook
Author: Publisher: Baker's Plays
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Baker's Roaring Twenties scrapbook ... Material to provide ... a full evening revue of the Roaring Twenties ... Edited by John G. Fuller
Author: Walter H. BAKER (Publishers.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
The 1920s Scrapbook
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780954795467
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The arts.
The 1920s Scrapbook
Author: Publisher: New Cavendish Books
ISBN: 9781872727943
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
With over 1,000 colourful images, Robert Opie brings to life the 1920s and captures the mood of this radical decade in Great Britain. The Twenties were a time for change and invention. The arrival of the wireless provided a new form of entertainment and The Radio Times was launched in 1923. The popularity of the cinema continued and was changed forever with the coming of 'talkies' and The Jazz Singer in 1926. While there were many notable events, from the Tutankhaman discoveries to the Empire exhibition at Wembley, unemployment and workers' discontent pervaded everyday life, culminating in the General Strike of 1926. For children, however, fun and amusement could be found with new cartoon characters: the antics of Felix the Cat at the pictures, tales of Pooh Bear in A.A. Milne's book Winnie-the-Pooh and, in newspapers, Bonzo the Dog (Daily Sketch) , Rupert the Bear (Daily Express) , Teddy Tail (Daily Mail) and Pip, Squeak and Wilfred (Daily Mirror), . Apart from women daring to smoke (espe
Baker's Roaring Twenties Scrapbook
Author: John Grant FullerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Musicals
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Scrapbook for the Twenties
Author: The Confident Years
Author: Robert J. BondyPublisher: Scarborough, Ont. : Prentice-Hall of Canada
ISBN: 9780131675445
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Gay Nineties Scrapbook, The
Author: John B. FullerPublisher: Baker's Plays
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Rum Running and the Roaring Twenties
Author: Philip P. MasonPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814351050
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
A fascinating look at the excesses and failures of Prohibition in the United States, and specifically in Michigan. On January 17, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment took effect in the United States, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, use, or importation of alcoholic beverages. Yet the resulting peace and tranquility predicted never materialized. The Prohibition experiment failed dismally in the United States, and nowhere worse than in Michigan. The state's close proximity to Canada, where large amounts of liquor were manufactured, made it a major center for the smuggling and sale of illegal alcohol. Although federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies attempted to stop the flow of liquor into Michigan, an astounding seventy-five percent of all illegal liquor brought into the United States was transported across the Detroit River from Canada. Using police and court records, newspaper accounts, and interviews with those who lived during the time, Philip P. Mason has constructed a fascinating history of life in Michigan during Prohibition. He regales readers with stories of the bungled efforts by officials at every level to control the smuggling and sale of illegal alcohol. Most entertaining are the creative smuggling efforts undertaken by citizens of all walks of life-the poor, middle class, and affluent, upstanding citizens and organized criminals and gang members. By 1928 Prohibition was a major issue in the presidential campaign. In 1933, with the support of President Franklin Roosevelt, Michigan's governor William Comstock, and other leaders, the Twenty-first Amendment was passed, repealing Prohibition. Michigan was the first state to ratify the amendment on April 10, 1933, and soon the Detroit River was returned to pleasure boats and fishing and commercial vessels whose holds no longer carried illegal liquor.