Parade is held on November 27th, 1924.
Events in the 1920’s
1920
The 18th Amendment {Volstead Act
(National Prohibition Act)} goes into
force at the beginning of the decade,
which in turn leads to increased black
market alcohol that is sold in speakeasies and run by mobsters who pay off
local politicians.
1921
The Emergency Quota Act is passed to
restrict immigration from Southern and
Eastern Europe.
1922
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
(USSR) is created.
1923
King Tutankhamen's tomb is discovered
and opened by Howard Carter.
1924
Ellis Island closes as an immigration entry
point to the US.
The Indian Citizenship Act confers citizenship on all Native Americans born
within the United States.
The first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day
1925
Sears Robuck opens its first retail store
in Chicago, Illinois. Sears had been selling through Home Shopping Catalogs
since 1893 and would continue selling
through catalogs for the next 70 years
at the same time as building on of the
largest chain stores in the country.
1926
The Ford Motor Company announces
the creation of a 40-hour work week for
factory workers.
1927
Charles Lindbergh flies ‘The Spirit of St.
Louis’ across the Atlantic nonstop and
solo, direct from New York City to Paris,
as the first solo transatlantic flight.
1928
Alexander Flemming discovers penicillin
which changed the world of modern
medicines, introducing the age of antibiotics.
Walt Disney’s “Steamboat Willie” premiers
November 18 starring Mickey Mouse,
Minnie Mouse and Peg leg Pete.
1929
At the end of the 20’s after a time of
excesses in all areas, the stock market
crashed on Black Thursday (October
24) and caused the start of The Great
Depression.
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Significant books
Of the 1920’s
Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis
1924
FICTION LEWIS
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Mark Twain
BIOGRAPHY TWAIN
Billy Budd, Herman Melville
1920
1928
Lady Chatterly’s Lover, D. H. Lawrence
FICTION MELVILLE
Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence
FICTION LAWERENCE
1925
FICTION WHARTON
1929
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
FICTION FITZGERALD
Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
1921
FICTION WOOLF
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig
Wittgenstein
(Major works : selected
philosophical writings )
The Trial, Franz Kafka
CD FICTION KAFKA
A Vision, W. B. Yeats
192 WITTGENSTEIN
828.807 YEA
Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler
1922
BIOGRAPHY KITLER
Ulysses, James Joyce
FICTION JOYCE
1926
The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
821.912 ELI
FICTION HEMINGWAY
Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
Winnie-the-Pooh, A. A. Milne
CD FICTION LEWIS or
EAUDIOBOOK
The Meaning of Relativity, Albert Einstein
530.1 EIN
JFICTION MILNE
1927
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
FICTION WOOLF
1923
The Prophet, Khalil Gibran
811.5 GIB
FICTION LAWERENCE
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa
Cather
FICTION CATHER
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
FICTION FAULKNER
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
FICTION HEMINGWAY
A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
305.42 WOO