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According to the Social Security Administration, the most popular baby names of the 1920s were “taken from a universe that includes 11,372,808 male births and 12,402,235 female births.”
Most Popular 1000 Names of the 1920s from the Social Security Administration This page was last edited on 5 February 2025, at 17:46 (UTC). Text is available under ...
The top names for boys in the early 20th century included John, William, James, George, Robert and Richard. In 2021, the name Mac rose in popularity 260 spots and Harold and Arthur secured the top ...
Richetti was an American criminal and Depression-era bank robber. He was associated with Aussie Elliott and later Pretty Boy Floyd in the early 1930s, and both Floyd and he were later implicated in the Kansas City massacre. Richetti was executed on October 7, 1938. [2] [10] Verne Sankey and Gordon Alcorn: No image available: 1890–1934 (Sankey)
Pretty Boy Floyd (1995) is a fictionalized account of Floyd's life by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. [33] In John Steinbeck's 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath, the character Ma Joad refers several times to Pretty Boy Floyd as a young man driven to a tragic fate by social injustice and the Great Depression: I knowed Purty Boy Floyd. I knowed his ma.
The U.S. was in the midst of the Great Depression when it saw Shirley Temple's 1934 performance in "Bright Eyes." ... Dawson became a popular name for baby boys when the show "Dawson's Creek" rose ...
1920s–1930s; the great depression and racial discrimination [ edit ] The 1920s and 30s also saw the continuing growth of the union and labor movements (the IWW claimed at its peak in 1923 some 100,000 members), as well as widespread poverty due to the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl , which inspired musicians and singers to decry the harsh ...
A girl listening to vacuum-tube radio during the Great Depression. As a cultural narrative, the Silent Generation are described as children of the Great Depression whose parents, having revelled in the highs of the Roaring Twenties, now faced great economic hardship and