One Summer: America, 1927

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    D’Andrea, Anthony 439
    Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics 251
    Darrow, Clarence 45
    Daugherty, Harry M. 220
    Davenport, Charles B. 395, 397–8
    Davis, Bette 432
    Davis, Noel 23, 86
    Davis Cup 106, 107, 109
    Davison, Henry 226
    Dawes, Charles 352
    Dawson, Coningsby 418
    Dawson, James P. 453
    The Day 159–60
    Dayton, Ohio 198
    De Cicco, James 240
    De Forest, Lee 358–60
    de la Roche, Mazo 419
    De Putti, Lya 365
    De Rochemont, Richard, Eating in America 182
    Dear Sir (play) 430
    Dearborn Independent 263–4, 265–6
    death row 95
    Deauville 206
    Declaration of Independence 288, 327
    Deeping, Warwick 418
    Delmonico’s, New York 191
    Democratic Party 138, 308
    Dempsey, Edna 290
    Dempsey, Jack 280, 455
    and Clara Bow 357
    defeats Jess Willard 281–3
    early life 283–4
    fight with Carpentier 285–6, 412
    and his brother’s death 289–90
    later life 490
    match against Firpo 286–7
    match against Sharkey 289, 293–5
    personality 284
    rematch against Tunney 294, 445, 449–54
    stops boxing 287–8
    Tunney defeats 288–9
    Dempsey, Johnny 287–8, 289–90
    Denby, Edwin 219
    Denison, Iowa 156–7
    Dernburg, Dr Bernhard 186
    Des Moines, Iowa 478
    Des Moines Register 479
    Detroit 257, 276
    airfield 55
    baseball 379, 386
    Great Red Scare 308
    immigrants 308
    Ku Klux Klan 392
    Lindbergh’s American tour 330
    murders 443
    railways 383
    skyscrapers 170
    snow stops baseball game 92
    Detroit Tigers 92, 147, 248, 385, 449
    Deutsch, Bernard S. 402
    Devery, William S. 138, 139
    The Devil in the Cheese (film) 427
    Dickey, Bill 484
    Dietrich, Marlene 365
    Dillingham Immigration Restriction Act (1921) 399
    DiMaggio, Joe 107
    Dingle Peninsula, Ireland 111
    Dinner at Eight (play) 431
    Dinnerstein, Leonard 312
    dirigibles (airships) 80, 117, 166, 200
    disabled people
    eugenics 399–405
    in Ford Motor Company 260
    Disney, Walt 116–17
    divorce 82
    Dixie Highway 80
    Dixon, Dolores 150
    Doheny, Edward L. 219
    Dolan, A. 405
    Dole, James D. 343
    Dole Pacific Race 343–4
    Don Juan (film) 153
    Doran, James M. 190
    Doran, Mildred 344
    Dorena, Missouri 64
    Dorgan, Tad 136–7
    Dos Passos, John 318
    Double Indemnity (film) 47
    Doubleday 424
    Douglas and Clydesdale, Marquess of 450
    Douglas DC-3 470
    Doumergue, Gaston 117
    Dracula (play) 427, 491
    Dreher, Dr. Thomas E. 251
    Dreiser, Theodore 378
    An American Tragedy 426
    Dreyfuss, Barney 137
    Drouhin, Maurice 341, 342
    Duff, Donald 102
    Duncan, Isadora 113
    My Life 426
    DuPont family 225
    Durant, Will 45
    Durst, Cedric 384
    Dutch Guiana 345
    Dykes, Jimmy 460
    Dyott, George Miller 456
     
    Earp, Wyatt 67
    East Milton, Massachusetts 371
    Ebbets, Charles Hercules 136
    Ebbets Field, Brooklyn 136
    economics
    American successes 218–19, 231–4
    cinema 349–50, 351
    German problems 229–30, 231
    gold standard 235–6
    Great Depression 237
    Great Market Bubble (1928) 237
    instalment plans 233–4
    manipulation of share prices 231–3
    Wall Street crash 224, 466, 488, 489
    Ederle, Gertrude (Trudie) 173–4
    Edison, Thomas 270, 276
    Edison Illuminating Company 257
    Edward, Prince of Wales 291
    Eig, Jonathan, Luckiest Man 447
    Eighteenth Amendment 187, 492
    Einstein, Albert 409, 445
    El Fay club, New York 192–3
    electrocution 366–7, 370–3, 486–7
    Eliot, T. S. 418, 426
    Elizabeth Ann Guild 221
    Ellington, Duke 148, 192
    Elliott, Robert G. 366–7, 370–1, 372, 476, 486–8
    Agent of Death 373
    Ellis Island, New York 399
    Elwood, Walter 102
    Empire State Building, New York 171n., 262
    English Channel
    flying across 347
    swimming 174, 463
    Erwin, William 344
    Espionage Act (1917) 302–3
    Etretat, France 481
    eugenics 394–403, 421–2, 425, 473–4, 496
    Eugenics Record Office (ERO) 397–8, 402–3
    Evening Graphic 39, 40, 87
    Everest, Mount 450
    Everest, Wesley 303
     
    factories, assembly lines 259–60, 263–4
    Fairbanks, Douglas 287, 354–5, 379, 450
    Falaise, Long Island 252
    Fall, Albert 213, 219
    Farnsworth, Philo T. 409–11, 414–17
    Farrell, Frank J. 138, 139
    fascism 25, 92–3
    Faulkner, William 418
    Mosquitoes 424
    Soldier’s Pay 426
    Fawcett, Percy 273–4, 455–6
    Fayetteville, North Carolina 126
    Federal Communications Commission 416
    Federal League (baseball) 128n., 139, 434–5
    Federal Reserve Bank of New York 224, 232, 234–5, 236, 466
    Federal Reserve Board 234–5, 236–7
    Federal Trade Commission (FTC) 353
    Fenway Park, Boston 132
    Ferber, Edna 431–2
    Show Boat 428–9
    Fields, W. C. 217, 391, 432
    films
    actors’ earnings