One Summer: America, 1927

decline, fears of 82–3
    Moreau, Emile 230
    Morelli gang 316
    Morgan, J. P. 304, 314
    Morgan, J. P. & Co. 165, 226, 254, 314–15
    Morgan, Thomas Hunt 402
    Morgan City, Louisiana 250–1
    Morgan family 225
    Morrow, Dwight 39, 164–5, 226, 314
    ambassador to Mexico 166
    and Calvin Coolidge 165–6, 215
    forgetfulness 165
    invites Lindbergh to Mexico 471, 472
    later life 490
    Lindbergh marries his daughter 55, 165
    supports Byrd’s flight 85n.
    wealth 165
    Mounds Landing, Mississippi 64
    Mouneyres, Hervé 31–2
    Mount Rushmore 325–9, 370, 463, 466
    movies see films
    Mulligan, Edward 91
    Mumford, Lewis 318
    Muncie, Indiana 262
    Muni, Paul 432
    murders
    Bath school massacre 98–100
    in Chicago 443
    Gravesend Bay Insurance Murder 46–7
    in Mississippi floods 250–1
    Parmenter and Berardelli 299–302, 315–17
    and Prohibition 189
    Sash Weight Murder Case 35–7, 41–8
    Murray, George, The Legacy of Al Capone 443
    Murtha, James 96, 97
    music
    Harlem 191–2
    jazz 82, 264
    and Lindbergh’s flight 117
    musicals 101–2, 428–32
    Mussolini, Benito 24, 25–6, 341, 445
     
    Nagorski, Andrew, Hitlerland 477
    Nantucket 336
    Napoleon I, Emperor 207
    Nation 216
    National Aeronautic Association of America 112
    National Broadcasting Company (NBC) 167, 412–14, 452
    National Education Week 218
    National Geographic 203–4
    National Geographic Society 85n.
    National German-American Alliance 187
    National League (baseball) 127n., 128n., 139
    National Origins Act (1924) 399
    National Theatre, Washington 430
    Nazis 229, 230, 264, 266–7, 365, 402, 476–7, 496
    Nebraska 71, 77, 187
    Negri, Pola 365
    Neimeyer, Bernard 448
    Neosho river 63
    Nevada 80, 82
    Nevins, Allan 256
    New Deal 488
    New England 63, 463
    New Jersey 239
    New Lebanon, Ohio 168
    New Mexico 255n.
    New Orleans 64, 75–6, 443
    New York Academy of Medicine 474
    New York American 82, 285
    New York, Chicago & St Louis Railroad 382
    New York City
    airfields 55
    baseball 132, 137, 379
    bombs 305–6, 370
    Byrd’s homecoming 293
    cinemas 351–2
    eugenics 399
    Fourth of July holiday 238–41
    Great Red Scare 307
    growth of 171–2
    heatwaves 238–40, 289, 291–2, 462
    Holland Tunnel 96–7, 463
    immigrants 308
    as industrial centre 171
    Lindbergh’s homecoming 172–80
    murders 47, 443
    newspapers 38
    population 171, 172
    Prohibition 82, 189, 191–2
    radio 168
    railways 382, 383
    Sherry-Netherland Hotel fire 9–10
    skyscrapers 171n., 172
    speakeasies 183–4
    theatre 427, 428–32
    ticker-tape parades 172, 173–4
    traffic congestion 96–7
    New York Daily Mirror 39, 42, 46, 348
    New York Daily News 127, 148, 164, 284, 437–8, 487
    New York Evening Telegram 148–9
    New York Evening World 115
    New York Giants 132, 137–8, 146, 167, 381, 461
    New York Life Insurance Company 489
    New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad 239
    New York State 183, 281–2, 284, 367
    New York Telegram 184
    New York Times 10, 77, 155, 360
    on Babe Ruth 460
    on Bath massacre 97–9, 100
    on Buck vs Bell 401
    on Byrd’s transatlantic flight 204, 207, 291
    on Chamberlin and Acosta’s endurance flight 11
    on Chamberlin’s flight 158, 159
    circulation 39
    on Coolidge’s statement on Hoover 73
    on Dempsey-Tunney fight 453
    on destruction of Pinedo’s plane 25
    on helicopters 81
    on invention of television 404–5, 408–9, 417
    on Italian immigrants 312–13
    on Lindbergh’s American tour 295, 296
    on Lindbergh’s flight 35, 84, 100, 106, 115
    on Lindbergh’s homecoming 175, 176, 197–8
    on Lindbergh’s voyage on the Memphis 160–1
    on Nungesser and Coli’s flight 26
    on Snyder-Gray case 36, 41, 95, 96, 97, 487
    on Warren G. Harding 211, 212
    New York World 194, 242
    New York World’s Fair (1939) 416
    New York Yankees
    Babe Ruth sold to 140
    defeat Washington Senators 240–2
    fatality during game 134
    financial problems 137–8
    Lindbergh and 177–9
    Miller Huggins and 380–1
    players 242–9
    players’ numbers 133
    popularity 385–6
    radio broadcasts 167
    road trips 379–80, 384, 387
    Ruppert and 138–9, 146
    speed of games 131
    Vidmer on 385
    weather problems 77, 92
    Yankee Stadium 146 see also Gehrig, Lou; Ruth, Babe 547
    New Yorker 37, 38, 40
    on Al Capone 451
    on Babe Ruth 147, 148
    bigotry 391
    book reviews 357, 424
    on cinemas in New York 352
    on Coolidge 223
    on Dwight Morrow 165
    film reviews 356
    on Henry Ford 254, 257
    on Parmenter and Berardelli murders 301
    profile of Gene Tunney 491
    on Prohibition 190
    reviews The President’s Daughter 222
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