Eras: 1917–1929

1917–1929

Everybody Ought to Be Rich

Samuel Crowther, “Everybody Ought to Be Rich: An Interview with John J. Raskob,” Ladies’ Home Journal (August 1929), 9; 36. Available at https://archive.org/details/sim_ladies-home-journal_1929-08_46_8/page/n9/mode/2up. Being rich is, of course, a comparative

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1917–1929

Me and My Flapper Daughters

William Oscar Saunders, “Me and My Flapper Daughters,” American magazine (August 1927), 27; 121. Available at https://hdl.handle.net/2027/iau.31858029197666?urlappend=%3Bseq=203%3Bownerid=118316737-207. I am the father of two flappers: trim-legged, scantily dressed, bobbed-haired, hipless, corsetless,

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1917–1929

Mail-Order Houses

Sears, Roebuck and Co., Honor Bilt Modern Homes catalog (1927), 1; 11; 71; 102; Available at https://archive.org/details/SearsModernHomes1927Pg00/Sears%20Modern%20Homes%201927%20pg00.jpg. Own Your Own HomeLong Life and Happiness To get the full share of

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1917–1929

Prohibition: Success or Failure?

James P. Holland, “The Workingman’s View of Prohibition,” North American Review, vol. 220, no. 827 (June 1, 1925), 611–614. Available at https://archive.org/details/sim_north-american-review_june-august-1925_221_2/page/610/mode/2up; Samuel Harden Church, “The Paradise of the Ostrich,”

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1917–1929

Enter the New Negro

Alain Locke, “Enter the New Negro,” Survey Graphic (March 1925), 631–634. Available at https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll336:2133/p16022coll336:2037?child_index=8&query=&sidebar_page=3. In the last decade something beyond the watch and guard of statistics has happened in the

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1917–1929

My Everyday Problems

“My Everyday Problems,” Woman’s Home Companion, vol. 50, no. 7 (July 1923), 25–26; 29. Available at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.319510028031159&view=1up&seq=35. In the February issue we asked the home women of America who felt

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1917–1929

Some Notes on Color

Jessie Fauset, “Some Notes on Color,” The World Tomorrow (March 1922), 76–77. Available at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.ah6h7m&view=1up&seq=82. A distinguished novelist said to me not long ago: “I think you colored people1 make

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1917–1929

Debating Darwinism: Evolution and Mr. Bryan

Harry Emerson Fosdick, “Evolution and Mr. Bryan,” Popular Religion Leaflets, American Institute of Sacred Literature (1922). Available at https://archive.org/details/evolutionmrbryan00fosd/page/n5/mode/2up. The editor of The Times1 has asked me to reply to

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