One Summer: America, 1927

Carolina 443
    Cherbourg 120, 291
    Chevalier, Maurice 26
    Chevrolet 262, 263
    Chicago
    air mail 57
    baseball 132, 137, 379, 385–6
    boat capsizes 292
    cinemas 350, 351
    crime 93–5, 438–46
    Dempsey-Tunney fight 449–54
    Federal Reserve Bank 237
    heatwave 77
    immigrants 308
    Lindbergh’s American tour 387, 388
    and Lindbergh’s flight 116
    Lindbergh’s unpopularity 479
    murders 48
    newspapers 436–8
    Pinedo addresses Fascist rally in 92–3
    Prohibition 189, 190, 436, 444–5
    railways 382, 383
    riots 303
    slaughterhouses 259
    speakeasies 183–4
    and Warren G. Harding 211–12
    workers 171
    Chicago Cubs 461
    Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad 334
    Chicago Tribune 38–9, 164, 167, 255–6, 434, 436–8, 442–3
    Chicago White Sox 132, 241, 246
    ‘Black Sox’ scam 143, 378, 435–6
    home runs 130
    injuries 133–4
    matches against New York Yankees 385–6, 448–9
    spitballs 144
    China 72
    Christian Krohg (freighter) 345
    Chrysler, Walter J. 232, 262, 450
    Chrysler Building, New York 171n., 262, 331
    Chrysler Corporation 262, 486
    Cicotte, Eddie 144
    Cincinnati 383
    Cincinnati Reds 381, 435
    cinemas 350–2, 493–4
    cities 80–1, 170–1
    Clean Books League 83
    Cleveland
    baseball 379, 386
    bombs 306
    immigrants 308
    railways 382, 383
    Union Terminal Building 170, 331, 334
    Cleveland, Grover 433
    Cleveland Indians 130, 133, 143, 386
    clubs, Prohibition 191–3
    Coacci, Ferruccio 301
    Coast Guard 74, 93
    Cobb, Ty 129, 131, 133, 143, 248, 380, 450
    Cochet, Henri 108–9
    Cohan, George M. 252
    Colbert, Claudette 432
    Coli, Captain François 86, 111, 177, 230, 290
    attempted transatlantic flight 26, 28–31, 62, 104
    memorial to 480–1
    reported missing 30–1, 78, 166
    Colorado 63, 77
    Colorado river 63
    Colosimo, Big Jim 442
    Columbia (aeroplane)
    damaged on landing 22
    endurance record 57
    Levine flies solo 341–2
    Lindbergh tries to buy 57–8
    prepares for transatlantic flight 19–20, 62, 87, 88–91
    transatlantic flight 155–6, 157–9, 335, 483
    Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) 413
    Columbia Phonograph Corporation 413
    Columbia University 147, 247–8
    Combs, Earle 245, 384, 461
    Comiskey, Charles 132, 435, 436
    Commerce Department 56, 251, 269–70
    Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB) 67–9, 70
    Committee on Foreign Relations 318
    communists 306–8, 373
    Compton, Betty 428
    Coney Island 239, 292, 443
    Conflict Islands 269
    Congress 70, 74
    and eugenics 399
    Great Red Scare 302
    and the Ku Klux Klan 392
    and Lindbergh’s flight 105–6
    Prohibition 139, 183, 188, 492
    First World War air force 13
    Connecticut 105
    Connecticut river 63
    Constantinople 53, 347
    Constitution, US 327, 329, 488
    Coolidge, Calvin 209, 288, 352, 359, 441
    and Boston police strike 216, 303
    and Chamberlin’s Atlantic flight 159–60
    cowboy outfit 222–3, 289
    death 489
    and the death of his son 323–4
    decides not to run for re-election 322–5, 462–3, 466
    and Dwight Morrow 55, 165–6
    early life 214–16
    Flood Control Act 250
    and the Great Market Bubble 237
    as Harding’s running mate 212, 216
    and Herbert Hoover 73–4
    later life 489
    and Lindbergh’s flight 116, 119
    and Lindbergh’s homecoming 164, 166–7, 169–70, 196, 456
    meets Babe Ruth 147
    and Mount Rushmore 325, 329, 370
    moves White House to South Dakota 196–7, 222–3
    personality and appearance 71, 213–14, 215, 217–18
    as president 71, 72, 213, 216–19
    and the Sacco-Vanzetti executions 374
    State of the Union address 467
    taciturnity 217
    and Warren G. Harding 220, 222
    Coolidge, Calvin, Jr 108, 323–4
    Coolidge, Grace 209, 215–18, 322, 323, 346, 374, 462, 489
    Coolidge, John 323
    Cooper, Gary 357
    Copenhagen 373, 475
    Corbett, Harvey W. 81
    Cottbus 159, 160
    Cotter, Robert 137
    Coué, Emile 228–9
    Courteville, Roger 455–6
    Couzens, James 261
    Cowling, W. C. 264
    Cox, James M. 308
    Cranwell Aerodrome, Lincolnshire 342
    crime
    capital punishment 366–7, 370–3
    in Chicago 93–5, 438–46
    and Lindbergh’s American tour 387
    Prohibition and 182
    television and 406
    see also murders
    Crissinger, Daniel R. 212
    Criterion Theatre, New York 354
    Cronaca Sovversiva 375
    Croydon Aerodrome, London 119, 341–2, 346
    Cuba 148
    Cumberland river 63
    Cummings, E. E. 426
    Cunard 157, 231
    Curtin, Lawrence 19
    Curtiss Field, Long Island 48, 84, 85, 103, 464, 475
    Curzon, Lord 357
    Custer State Park 196–7
     
    Dahlinger, Ray 277
    Daily Mirror 38
    Daly’s 63rd Street Theatre, New York 102
    Damiano, Catherine 240
    dancing 82, 83,