One Summer: America, 1927

183
    in Fordlandia 271
    loopholes in law 190–1
    premises padlocked 192–4
    speakeasies 183–4, 189, 191–2
    Volstead Act 139, 187–8, 192
    Wayne Bidwell Wheeler and 184–5, 195, 331
    Public Health Service 74
    publishing 424–7
    Puppe, Dr Julius 160
    Putnam, Lisa 326
    G. P. Putnam’s Sons 251, 424
     
    Quakers 66
    Queens Village, Long Island 35–7, 41–8, 95–6
    Queensberry, Marquess of 41
     
    racism 391–9, 425
    radio 146–7, 358, 466, 471
    advertising 413–14
    Dempsey-Tunney fight 452
    growth of 168–9
    Lindbergh’s homecoming 168, 169, 412–13
    Sarnoff and 411–14, 416
    sports broadcasts 167–8
    Radio and Television Manufacturers Association of America 416
    Radio Corporation of America (RCA) 232–3, 411–12, 414–16
    railways 333, 381–4, 449–50
    rainfall 63–5, 92
    Rains, Claude 432
    Randolph, Charlie 60
    Rangoon 347
    Raphaelson, Samuel 463
    The Day of Atonement 360–1
    Rapid City High School, South Dakota 196, 322–3, 456
    Rascoe, Burton 419
    Raskob, John Jacob 232–3
    Rathbone, Basil 432
    Ratlam, Maharajah of 293
    Reach, A. J. 145
    Reader’s Digest 37
    reading, popularity of 37–9
    Red Cross 74, 249, 302
    Redfern, Paul 344–5, 346
    Reed, Donna 156
    Reed, John 433
    Reichsbank 224, 229–30
    Reid, Wallace 287–8
    Reilly, Edward 42
    Reimers, David M. 312
    religion, and Prohibition 190–1
    Renaissance 396
    Reno, Nevada 239
    Republic Finance Company (RFC) 233–4
    Republican Party
    Coolidge and 165
    denounces Lindbergh 479
    Herbert Hoover and 71
    and the Ku Klux Klan 393–4
    and Warren G. Harding 165, 211–12
    restaurants, Prohibition 191
    Rex the Wonder Horse 357
    Rhode Island 105, 156
    Rice, Alexander Hamilton 273–4
    Rice, Grantland 284, 287
    Rice, Sam 458–9
    Rice and Hutchins 299, 316
    Richmond, Virginia 401
    Rickard, Tex 282, 284, 286
    Rin Tin Tin 361–2
    Rinehart, Mary Roberts 45
    Rio de Janeiro 318, 344
    Rio Rita (musical) 101–2, 174, 177, 430
    Ripley, Robert 117
    Ripley’s Believe It or Not 117
    Risberg, Swede 435
    Rist, Charles 224–5, 230
    Ritter, Lawrence 149
    RKO 494
    road transport 80
    Robinson, Doane 325, 327
    Robinson, Edward G. 432
    Robinson, Jackie 496
    Robinson, Dr William 394
    Roche, Paul Somers 418
    Rockaways 239
    Rockefeller, John D. 85n., 304, 369
    Rockefeller, Percy 232
    Rockefeller Foundation 249
    Rockefeller Institute 473, 495
    Rockies 78
    Rodgers, Commander John 31
    Rodgers, Richard 494
    Rodin, Auguste 326
    Rogers, Buddy 355, 356, 357
    Rogers, Will 74, 324
    Roman Empire 396
    Rome 348
    Roosevelt, Franklin Delano 293, 305, 478, 479, 488
    Roosevelt, Quentin 84n.
    Roosevelt, Theodore 53, 328
    Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr 216
    Roosevelt Field, Long Island 30, 35
    Byrd controls leasehold 20, 85
    closure 465
    filming at 27
    Fonck crashes 18–19
    Lindbergh takes off from 103–5
    transatlantic flights start from 84–5, 155, 199
    Roosevelt Hotel, New York 181
    Roosevelt Lake, Arizona 25
    Root, Waverly, Eating in America 182
    Ross, E. A. 313
    Ross, Harold 391
    Ross, Samuel L. 167
    Roth, Braggo 130
    Rothafel, Samuel Lionel (Roxy) 352, 494
    Rothstein, Arnold 252, 378, 379
    Rouge River 265
    Round Lake 99
    Roxy Fund 481
    Roxy Theatre, New York 154, 177, 351–2 and n., 360, 481, 494
    Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 268, 269
    The Royal Family (play) 431
    rubber 268, 269–75
    Ruddiman, Edsel 263
    Ruether, Dutch 242
    Ruhr 229, 230
    Runyon, Damon 41, 283, 285–6, 451
    Ruppert, Jacob
    and Babe Ruth 140, 148, 378, 379, 485
    boxing matches 289, 294
    builds Yankee Stadium 146
    death 494–5
    early life 138–9
    Florida development 279–80
    and Lou Gehrig 246–7
    and New York Yankees 138, 139, 384
    sponsors Byrd’s flights 481
    Ruppert Beach, Florida 279–80
    Ruppert Brewery 138
    Rushmore, Charles 325, 328
    Rushmore, Mount 325–9, 370, 463, 466
    Russell, Bertrand, Education and the Good Life 426
    Russell, Francis 318, 368, 375
    Russian Revolution (1917) 307
    Ruth, George Herman Sr. 123
    Ruth, George Herman (Babe) 77, 107, 121, 287, 311, 361
    achievements 129–30, 142–3, 145–6, 248–9, 385, 386, 447, 448–9, 457–62, 466
    affair with Claire Merritt Hodgson 380
    arrested for illegal fishing 99
    autobiography 123, 128, 134
    Babe Comes Home 153, 154, 178, 379
    charged with punching a cripple 448
    death 485
    drawbacks of celebrity 377
    early life 123–6
    earnings 378–9
    fame 146–9
    fights 131–2
    Fourth of July game 242
    friendship with Lou Gehrig 249
    ill-health 150–1, 152
    joins Baltimore Orioles 126–7
    later life 483–4, 485
    and Lindbergh’s