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To contact Project Gutenberg of Australia go to http: //gutenberg. SINCE YESTERDAYTHE 1. IN AMERICASeptember 3, 1. September 3,1. 93. Frederick Lewis Allen. To. LETITIA CUNNINGHAM ROGERSwho has a wise head and a warm heart. CONTENTSPREFACE I. PRELUDE: SEPTEMBER 3, 1. What the Headlines Said. The Crest of the Wave. A Few People, 1. 92. II. Bathtub Gin and the Crime Wave. Miniature Golf and Free Wheeling. The Hoover Moratorium. A Dole for Corporations. The Lindbergh Kidnap Case. A CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT1. The Battle of Washington. Rebellion and Ferment. The New President Speaks. All Roads Lead to Washington. Extraordinary Session. New- -And Multiple- -Deal. Happy Days Are Here Again VI. Play, Sports, Gambling. How the Churches Fared. The Social Salvationists. Notes: Translation into Vintage Movies Posters at AllPosters.com. Choose from over 500,000 Posters and Art Prints. Value Framing, Fast Delivery, 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Featured Flickr image. Staggered holidays for comfort. Artist Eileen Evans, 1939-1946. Biography of Seabiscuit from the AMERICAN EXPERIENCE documentary. Seabiscuit was one of the most remarkable Thoroughbred racehorses in history. REFORM- -AND RECOVERY? Reforms, Dionnes, and Uproar. Dillinger, G- Men, and Dewey. Huey Long and Others. The Court Says No VIII. WHEN THE FARMS BLEW AWAY1. The Tractors Go Rolling Along. THE VOICE WITH THE SMILE WINS1. The Changed World of 1. The Pump Works- -Up to a Point. Streamlined Trains and Trailers. They Hated Roosevelt. The Voice with the Smile Wins. WITH PEN AND CAMERA THROUGH DARKEST. AMERICA1. Cocktail Party, 1. Social Salvationists Writing. Benny Goodman and Bach. FRICTION AND RECESSION1. Taylor, Lewis, Girdler. The Supreme Court Battle. Was the New Deal Played Out? Isolation or Intervention? Martians- -and Germans- -Advance. The World of Tomorrow? A Royal Visit and a Summer Lull. An Era Ends APPENDIXILLUSTRATIONSEver since, in Only Yesterday, I tried to tell the story. United States during the nineteen- twenties I have. I might make a similar. I definitely began work on the. I did not yet know how the story. The outbreak of war in Europe provided an obvious. Panic of 1. 92. 9 had ended one. By an odd chance, the. Germany by the British and French. September 3. 1. 92. I had already made the subject of my first chapter. It. gave me a turn to realize how precisely the course of events had. The span of time covered in Only Yesterday was from the. Armistice of November 1. Panic of October- November. Panic and the spring of 1. Panic. interval. Hence my decision to begin with a study of things as they. September 3, 1. 92. I had written in somewhat. Harper's Magazine in 1. Panic and the course of events. The story of the Panic itself, however, I. I told it in considerable. Only Yesterday. The problem of selection and emphasis, always difficult, is of. In. the present volume I have done the same thing to some degree, but. America in the. nineteen- thirties was obviously the enormous economic and political. United States in the. A. PRELUDE: SEPTEMBER 3, 1. For if we are to understand. American life during the nineteen- thirties, we must. Panic which introduced the Depression. Perhaps the most. I have chosen September 3, 1. Big Bull Market reached its peak: that the. Dow- Jones average of stock- market prices, which had been rising so. If there. was any single day when the wave of prosperity- -and of. September 3, 1. 92. So let us go back and look about us. Not. everywhere, to be sure: in the Far West and South the temperatures. But from the coast of Maine to the wheatfields of. Nebraska the sun beats down implacably. Yesterday was Labor Day; and last night, as the long holiday. American cities were nightmares of congestion as endless. The railroad. stations, too, were jammed with people- -not only vacationists and. Labor Day traffic been so overwhelming, or the collective. Labor Day travel been greater. You. are in for it: for a temperature of 9. The men you see there. The fashionable figure is. Not yet have Mae West's curves. The waistline- -if it can be called. The skirts are short, reaching only two or. If this were a wintry day, instead of. The women's hats are small helmets that fit. Not all women wear their hair short, but. Even in a large city you may see one or two backless dresses. As the. advertisements in the Ladies Home Journal declare, . Horizontal and perpendicular lines; square. No pointed or rounded prows, no sloping. You will not be able to go far, in the central part of any of. Florida boom went to pieces in 1. Cotswold Terraces and Rosemont. Groves and Woodmere Drives- -has been lagging a bit since 1. Not in the. poorer districts are the riveters noisiest, but at the centers of. Coolidge- Hoover prosperity. That network. of steel girders which you see rising so high above the street is. In New York they are tearing down the old Waldorf- Astoria to. Empire State. Building. Rockefeller, Jr., has architects quietly at work. Opera House as its central feature (he. Opera will decline to come in and that. Radio. City). The Chrysler Building and several other major skyscrapers. Most of the other cities of America are. New York's frenzy for monuments of. As you walk on, a man passes you whistling . A little further Ronald Colman may be seen in. The migration of Broadway stage celebrities to. Hollywood has been under way for some time, as movie producers. The actors lisp absurdly; the outbursts of song. And within another year we shall. Eddie. Cantor is on the stage in . If you had rather sit quietly. Fada Symphony Orchestra, the Pure Oil Band, Whiteman's Old Gold. Orchestra, or the Freed Orchestradians. Not yet has the technique. Rudy Vallee- -are. The average price of a radio set is still. In these prosperous times, however, radios are being. American families own them. They may help us to orient. What will tomorrow morning's headlines say about today's. They will agree that the most exciting and important events of. September 3, 1. 92. Prime Minister of England, a golf. The Prime Minister is Ramsay Mac. Donald; his speech is delivered. Geneva before the Assembly of the League of Nations. He hopes shortly to visit the United. States to further that agreement. Germany is a republic and a member of the League. Nations; the Dawes Plan of collecting reparations from Germany. Young Plan; France. Continent, still occupies the. Rhineland. Japan has not yet gone into Manchuria, let alone into. China, nor Italy into Ethiopia; Spain is not yet torn by civil war. Adolf Hitler is the little- regarded leader of a noisy minority. German Brown Shirts, his name quite unknown to most. Americans. There is plenty of tension, to be sure. National feelings run. At this. very moment there is a grave threat of war between Russia and. China. Mussolini is cherishing dreams of empire; there are Arab. Palestine; and Gandhi is giving trouble to the British in. India. But still in the main the lines drawn at Versailles in 1. Much more exciting than Ramsay Mac. Donald's address, to most. Americans, is another front- page event of September 3: the National. Amateur Golf Championship at Pebble Beach, California. The. incomparable Bobby Jones is there, tying for first place with Gene. Homans in the qualifying round. Will Jones go on victoriously to. American amateur title? Not till next year will Jones. British amateur and open. American amateur and open, all in one season.). Meanwhile the question whether Jones will win is in millions of. For years past, aspiring executives have. Of the two headlined incidents in aviation, one is a triumph. The triumph belongs to the great German. Graf Zeppelin. Having successfully circled the. Atlantic from Lakehurst. Friedrichshafen; by the evening of the third of September it has. Spanish towns. see it floating overhead, its cabins brilliantly lighted against. So impressive has been the Graf Zeppelin's demonstration. Empire State Building are about to build a mooring mast on. December 1. 1 with this somewhat premature prophecy: . Building with an eye to. During the summer. T. A. T., with Colonel Lindbergh as its adviser, has begun a. Pennsylvania and Santa Fe. New York to. Columbus, Ohio; fly by day from Columbus to Waynoke, Oklahoma; take. Clovis, New Mexico; and then continue by. Coast. In newspaper advertisements you may see Lionel. Barrymore as he alights from the . No night flying is. Yet now, before the first summer is over, one of the big. Ford trimotor planes has gone smashing into Mount Taylor in New. Mexico. The disaster is an ugly blow to the fledgling air- transport. Since Lindbergh's flight to Paris in 1. Post Office Department has been successfully. United States is still in its hazardous and uncertain infancy. The newspapers which record the events of September 3, 1. You will learn in them that in. Gastonia, North Carolina, a jury has been chosen for the trial of. Communists for the killing of the. Chief of Police. There is, of course, no CIO.). You will learn that Commander Byrd- -not yet an Admiral- -is waiting. Little America for his flight over the South Pole. Bill Tilden is expected to win the amateur tennis. Forest Hills (and will do so- -for the seventh. Bobby Jones's and Babe. Ruth's, has not long to run. Smith has wandered far enough from the torrid sidewalks. New York to be the guest of honor at a luncheon at fashionable. Southampton. Having been defeated by Herbert Hoover in the national. Smith is now preparing himself for a loftier if. Presidency- -that of the Empire State Building. No headlines will announce tonight that. Big Bull Market has reached its climax; for no headline. Men do not whip themselves into. None of us is aware, on September 3, 1. United States are crossing one of the great. The way ahead is hidden, as always, by. Surely, we imagine, there is higher ground just ahead. Yet at. this very moment the path under our feet is about to turn.
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