One Summer: America, 1927

379
    Babe Ruth’s 153, 154, 178, 379
    cinemas 350–2, 493–4
    depiction of women in 83
    economics of 349–50, 351
    F. Scott Fitzgerald and 424
    in Great Depression 493
    and Lindbergh’s flight 116–17
    newsreels 146–7, 154, 196–7
    Sash Weight Murder Case 47
    silent movies 354, 362–3, 364
    talking pictures 153, 358–65, 432, 463, 466, 493
    fire, Sherry-Netherland Hotel 9–10
    Firpo, Luis Angel 286–7, 452, 491
    First National studios 153
    First World War 81, 326–7, 434, 437, 444
    American loans to Europe 110
    and aviation 11–13
    and baseball 139
    bombs 11–12
    Hoover’s relief efforts in Belgium 67–9
    problems caused by 303
    and Prohibition 185–6
    Wings 354
    Fisher, Carl 280
    Fisher, Irving 396
    fishing 197
    Fitzgerald, F. Scott 33, 252, 418, 420, 424
    The Great Gatsby 252, 424
    My Lost City 231
    Fitzgerald, Zelda 252
    Flack, Max 134
    flagpole-sitting 161, 162–3 ‘flappers’ 83
    Fletcher, Henry P. 25
    Flood Control Act (1928) 250
    floods 63–5, 73–7, 169–70, 249–51, 292, 466
    Florida 217–18, 279–80, 370, 378
    Foch, Marshal Ferdinand 489
    Fokker, Anthony 20–2, 87, 104, 105, 199
    Fokker aeroplanes 337, 343
    Fonck, René 17–19, 27, 28, 84, 104, 202
    food, meals on trains 383
    Forbes, Charles 212, 220
    Ford, Edsel 263, 276, 330, 486
    Ford, Henry 330, 438, 445
    aircraft 470
    anti-Semitism 254, 264–7, 289
    and the Dearborn Independent 263–4, 265–6
    death 486
    early life 256–7
    Fordlandia project 270–5, 455, 486
    humiliates his son 276
    ignorance 254–6
    interest in soybeans 263, 275
    libel case against Chicago Tribune 255–6, 434
    Model A car 276–8, 330, 463, 485–6
    Model T car 256, 257–61, 263, 276, 277–8, 466
    My Life and Work 257n., 277
    Sapiro libel case 265–6
    Ford Motor Company 257–61, 263, 276, 330, 349, 486
    Fordlandia project, Brazil 270–5, 455, 486
    Forster, E. M. 425
    Fourth of July holiday 238–41, 248–9
    Fox film company 352n., 494
    Fox Movietone 154
    France
    America’s unpopularity in 110–11, 120
    aviation 12, 18, 26–32, 53
    bomb sent to Herrick 317
    Byrd’s transatlantic flight 203, 204–7, 225, 290–1
    Lindbergh’s flight 106–7, 110, 112–14, 117–19, 120, 465
    Long Island conference 230–1
    and Prohibition 189–90
    and the Sacco-Vanzetti executions 373–4
    seizes Ruhr 229, 230
    France (ocean liner) 30
    Frankfurter, Felix 318–19
    Franklin, Harold E., Motion Picture Theater Management 351
    Franklin, Rabbi Leo 265
    Frazee, Harrison Herbert 139–40, 174, 264
    Freeman, Milton H. 97
    Freud, Sigmund 425
    Frick family 225
    Fuller, Alvan T. 319–20, 321, 371, 490
    Fulton Theatre, New York 427
    Funny Face (play) 428
     
    Gable, Clark 47, 432
    Gade, Mille 174
    Galbraith, John Kenneth 256
    Gale, Zona 419
    Galeries Lafayette, Paris 13–14
    Galleani, Luigi 374–5
    Gallico, Paul 146, 284, 450
    Gandhi, Mahatma 445
    Gandil, Chick 435
    gangsters, in Chicago 93–5, 438–46
    Garbo, Greta 365
    Gardner, Larry 127
    Garfield, James 255
    Gehrig, Lou 133, 138, 450, 459
    early life 246–8
    friendship with Ruth 249
    home runs 178, 246, 248–9, 385, 386, 447, 461
    later life 483–5
    road trips 384
    General Electric 406, 412
    General Motors (GM) 262, 263, 278, 349, 486
    Geneva 373
    George V, King of England 119–20, 440
    Germany
    actors 365
    anti-German sentiment in America 186–7
    aviation 53–4
    Chamberlin flies to 158–60
    First World War 12, 20–1, 69, 70, 186
    and Ford Model T 277
    honours Henry Ford 266–7
    hyperinflation 229–30
    Kristallnacht 477
    Lindbergh and 476–8
    Long Island conference 231
    Nazis 229, 230, 264, 266–7, 365, 402, 476–7, 496
    protests against Sacco-Vanzetti executions 373
    reparations payments 231
    sinking of the Lusitania 434
    Gershwin, George and Ira 428
    Gibbs, Wolcott 38
    Gibson, Sam 449
    Gide, André 425
    Gilbert, John 357
    Gilbert, Robert E. 72
    Gilliatt, Penelope 356
    Gimbel Brothers 304
    Glyn, Elinor, It 357–8
    Goddard, Paulette 432
    Goering, Hermann 476
    Gold Coast, Long Island 225, 252
    Gold Coast Railroad 382
    gold reserves 79
    gold standard 235–6
    Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco 488
    Goldstein, Benny 46–7
    Goldstein, Robert 302–3
    Goodhue, Lemira Barrett 209
    Gordon, Waxey 379
    Grand Central Station, New York 165
    Grand Rapids, Michigan 388
    Grandin, Greg 263
    Grange, Red 367
    Grant, Cary 432
    Grant, Madison 394, 395
    Passing of the Great Race 395–7
    Grant, Robert 320
    Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Los Angeles 351
    Gravesend Bay Insurance Murder 46–7
    Gray, Judd 37, 41–8,