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...Gluttons of Privilege." "It is terribly dangerous to let any one group get too much power in the Government," he cried. He meant the "Wall St. reactionaries" who were in power in the '20s and whose policies, he said, had ended in the 1929 crash and subsequent disaster for the farmers...
Meanwhile, amid these half-hidden battles, life has some compensations for Ana. Her two daughters Marie and Tania (both in their early 20s) are with her. She is very proud of Marie, who was educated in France under Maurice Thorez' care. Her son Vladimir is a lieutenant in the Rumanian army. Sometimes Ana leaves a meeting saying: "I must go now to get supper for my children...
...Generation to School. Beard's influence spread beyond his colleagues, the historians. During the '20s, with his wife Mary, he wrote a brilliant and provocative survey history of the U.S., The Rise of American Civilization. The book became a standard work in U.S. schools and colleges. A whole generation of Americans learned their U.S. history in Uncle Charlie's school...
...that era, as Editor Hodapp calls it, may seem neither very sweet nor so terribly mad, still it is possible that many middle-aged readers will find in this book's backward glance a nostalgic moment-less, perhaps, for the actual quality of life in the '20s than for the kind of easy illusions it was then possible to cultivate...
Handsome Living. In the golden '20s, the years of the big names-the years of Dempsey, Tilden and Bobby Jones-Babe Ruth was the biggest draw of them all. With his big bat, he put baseball back on its feet and back in the hearts of the fans after the 1919 "Black Sox" scandal...