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| "Scarface," gang leader, murderous booze distributor, public enemy number one, could not be convicted for the murder of several members of a rival gang but ended up going to jail for tax evasion |
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| Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, against "Modernism" |
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| Columbia Professor, formed the foundation of progressive education, "learning by doing". He believed in "education for life". This was the most revolutionary contribution to education in the 1920's. |
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| One of the founders of advertising, aimed at making Americans chronically discontented with what they had and want more. Published the best seller The Man Nobody Knows, saying that Jesus Christ was the greatest ad man of all time. |
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| "Father of Scientific Management", prominent inventor, engineer, and tennis player who tried to eliminate wasted motion in car production factories. |
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| Inventor of the Model T, created a huge empire on the cornerstone of his mechanical genius. Grasped and fully applied the techniques of assembly-line production, or "Fordism". |
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| First person to fly solo over the Atlantic, in a 33-hour voyage in the Spirit of St. Louis. He became a national hero and his feat furthered the aviation industry. |
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| Jewish star of The Jazz Singer, the first talkie, prominent "blackface" actor, who used impersonating a black person to gain acceptance into white society |
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| Jazz musician, part of the first important black jazz ensemble, went to Chicago from New Orleans. Louis Armstrong was in his band for a time. |
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| Black poet, the "poet laureate of Harlem", wrote The Weary Blues |
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| black, founder of the United Negro Improvement Association geared towards sending blacks back to Africa. Convicted of mail fraud, deported. |
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| "Bad Boy of Baltimore", had a monthly publication called the American Mercury that ripped marriage, patriotism, democracy, prohibition, Rotarians, puritans, etc. |
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| Author, wrote This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby |
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| Author who saw action in WWI, wrote the Sun Also Rises, a Farewell to Arms, and others. He killed himself in 1961. |
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| hotheaded, big drinking journalist from Minnesota, wrote Main Street and Babbitt |
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| Author from Mississippi, wrote of a fictional Deep South county, wrote The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Absalom, Absolom! |
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| erratic Idahoan poet who left America for Europe, had the doctrine "Make It New". |
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| Dramatist, won the Nobel Prize, used Freudian notions of sex in plays such as Strange Interlude |
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| Architect, said that architecture shouldn't just mimic Greek and Roman architecture |
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| Secretary of the Treasury, millionaire. Wanted to appeal to the "poor" rich people, engineered a series of tax reductions. Controversial, though called the "Greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Hamilton". |
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