One Summer: America, 1927

homecoming 178
    personality 147–50
    plays with Boston Red Sox 127–8, 129–30
    plays for New York Yankees 140, 143, 146, 150–2, 246
    road trips 384, 386
    training in Florida 280
    Ruth, Helen Woodford 128
    Ruth, Katherine 123–4
    Ryan Airlines 58–9, 161
     
    Sacco, Nicola 44, 244, 296, 367–8, 466, 487
    appeal for clemency 330, 371
    arrested for murder 301–2, 310–11
    bombings after trial 314–15, 317–18, 371
    death sentence 297, 317, 321
    execution 370–3
    early life and character 308–9
    Fuller studies case 319–20
    guilt 374–6
    Lowell Commission 320–1
    protests against sentence 318–19, 373–4
    trial 313–14, 315–17
    Sacco, Rose 371
    Sacramento, California 362, 371
    Sagaland (freighter) 336
    St Francis Hotel, Newark 161, 162–3
    St Francis river 63
    St Louis 57
    airfield 55
    anti-German sentiment in 186
    baseball 131, 132, 151, 379, 386, 447–8
    Lindbergh and 77–8, 341, 388
    Mississippi flood 64
    railways 383
    St Louis Browns 77, 130, 131, 136, 177, 219
    St Louis Cardinals 135, 152, 381, 461
    St Mary’s Industrial School for Boys, Baltimore 124–6
    St Paul, Minnesota 387
    St Petersburg, Florida 383
    St Pierre and Miquelon 189–90
    Saint Roman, Pierre de 31–2
    St Vincent’s Hospital, New York 151
    Salisbury, Wiltshire 348
    San Antonio, Texas 355
    San Francisco 55, 80, 171, 237, 410, 492
    San Jacinto river 63
    Sands, Nellie 27–8
    Sands Point, Long Island 252
    Sanger, Margaret 396
    Santa Monica, California 349
    Santarém 268
    Sapiro, Aaron 265–6
    Saratoga Lake, New York State 289
    Sarnoff, David 232, 411–12, 413–17, 450
    Sarnoff, Lizette 232
    Sartre, Jean-Paul 425
    Sash Weight Murder Case 35–7, 41–8
    Saturday Evening Post 68–9
    Sauk Centre, Minnesota 51, 423
    Saunders, John Monk 354, 494
    Scenic Limited Railroad 382
    Schacht, Hjalmar 224–5, 229–30
    Schildkraut, Joseph 365
    Schlee, Edward F. 346
    Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr 71, 217
    Schwartz, Bernard 96
    Science and Invention magazine 81
    Scientific American 54, 352, 406, 421n.
    Scribner’s 424, 425, 426
    Scudder, Townsend 45, 48
    seadromes 335–6
    Seaton, Devon 346
    Seattle 83
    Second World War 219, 275, 478–9
    Sedition Act (1918) 302–3
    Selfridge Field, Michigan 252, 355
    Selfridge’s, London 408
    Seybold, Socks 130
    Shaker Heights, Ohio 333–4
    Shanghai 347
    Sharkey, Jack 106, 289, 293–5, 454
    Shaw, George Bernard 285, 359, 445, 490
    Shawkey, Bob 242
    Sheehy, Pete 461
    Sheldrick, Lawrence 278
    Sherry-Netherland Hotel, New York 9–10
    Shibe, Ben 145
    Shippy, George 439
    Shocker, Urban 242, 243
    Shore, Ernie 126–7
    Show Boat (musical) 428–32
    Shubert brothers 193
    Shubert Theatre, New Haven 427
    Sikorsky, Igor 17–19, 414
    silent movies 354, 362–3, 364
    Silver Slipper club, New York 192
    Sinclair, Harry 219
    Sinclair, Upton 318, 375
    Sinclair Oil 219
    Sing Sing prison, New York City 95–6, 97
    Singapore, rubber plantations 269
    Sioux City, Iowa 483
    Sioux Indian Nation 325
    Sir John Carling (aeroplane) 348
    Skinner, Professor Clarence 227
    The Sky-Raiders (film) 27
    skyscrapers 80–1, 170–1 and n., 172, 254–5, 262, 331
    Slater & Morrill Shoe Company 299–300
    Slemp, C. Bascom 217
    Sloan, Alfred, Jr 262
    Smart Set (magazine) 37
    Smelser, Marshall 133, 143
    Smith, Al 224
    Smith, Bessie 192
    Smith, Ernest 343
    Smith, Mayor J. Emil 340
    Smith, Jess 220
    Smith, Red 147
    Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 469
    Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC 61, 469–71
    smuggling, during Prohibition 189–90
    Snake river 63
    Snow, Mary 332
    Snyder, Albert 35–7, 38, 41–8, 186
    Snyder, Ruth 65, 313, 368
    affair with Gray 42–3
    execution 486–7
    love of movies 83
    murder of her husband 35–7, 43–4
    transferred to Sing Sing 95–6, 97
    trial 41–2, 45–8
    Socrates 396
    Sorensen, Charles E. 259, 278
    South America 267, 374, 455–6
    South Braintree, Massachusetts 299–301, 310, 317
    South Dakota 196–7, 222–3, 328
    South Orange, New Jersey 240
    South Pole 481
    Southard, E. E. 396
    Soviet Union, divorce rate 82
    soybeans, Henry Ford’s interest in 263, 275
    Spanish Civil War 482
    Spanish flu epidemic (1918) 139
    Sparkes, Rev. C. S. 423
    speakeasies 183–4, 189, 191
    Spellbound (play) 102
    Spencer, Dr Alex M. 61, 201, 469–71
    Spirit of St Louis (aeroplane) 48, 83, 177
    American tour 251, 337–41, 464
    design and construction 58–61
    Henry Ford flies in 330
    lands at Le Bourget 111–14, 118, 465
    in Smithsonian Institution 469–70
    test flights 61–2
    transatlantic