Denver South High School - Johnny Reb Yearbook (Denver, CO)

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Federal Officers enforced Prohib- ition laws by confiscaring illegal still. Roili-ruin Ri scrrlcmcnr Ailminiarraimn -fs. :off X, 4 , 'S it il --ff Q, -1 P-x P fee- Hx! if 'Ya rl Y ' n xx , -K x ,N I 4... l N ,fre 'Q 9 ! . L , 5 i I 1- X m ,pf ff ,- ' 4' L ' ' 1 n W X x 5 , e f is in R KX Xl I X 'p xx V YW, 4, 5 f w The worst drought to hir the Great Plains began in 1934. , 9' P iw -. Y' A w WT'- r 4 MV Ug,,.,,! ' x i Q 1 A A WPA Work Project was znnounccd in 1940.

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Women march for the right to vote. This aircraft, vintage 1910, landed at Den- ver's Overland Park, t Ma 'V The ceremonial driving of the golden spike marked the completion of the trans continental railway. The country was also colonized', by the last great wave of immigrants in the early 1900's. Most of the newcomers were Italians, Slavs, Greeks, and Turks. These anarchists, as they were called, were scorned by the Scandanavian and Germans, who themselves had come fifty S years earlier, and people from the British Isles. Most of these immigrant families worked in factories, largely under very poor working con tions. There had been a move to reform these di- conditions, but it was not until a Senate investi- gation was launched after the killing of 146 peo- ple in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in 1911 that labor reforms began to be developed.

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1918 Unlike the antiwar protests of the sixties and seventies, protests against World War II were never permitted. After World War I, a large economic boom swept all of America. The number of Americans investing in the stock market was the largest it had ever been. It was at this point that the stock market plunged. On October 24, 1929, 1.5 mil- lion people lost thirty million dollars, equal to one-third of the Gross National Product. By 1935, with the help of a major drought, 4,004 banks had closed and unemployment had reached twenty-f ive per cent. After the first year of financial stagnation, Franklin Delano Roosevelt became President. The support for his New Deal was great, as evidenced by his reelection in 1936 by the largest proportion of electoral votes in history up to that time. Not only did he push to repeal the Prohib- ition Amendment, but his employment programs greatly reduced unemployment and paved the way for the modern welfare state. The economy was just getting back on its feet when Pearl Har- bor was attacked on December 7, 1941. Two years before, Navy Secretary Frank Knox had predicted a possible surprise attack on Pearl Harbor? Within two hours after the attack, the Pacific Fleet had been crippled, 347 planes had been destroyed and 2,403 citizens had been killed. This was the beginning of fighting for Ameri- cans until shortly after the atomic bombs were dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. A year before the atomic bombs were drop- ped, a Harvard instructor named Howard Aiken operated the first computer. It was fifty feet long, with five hundred miles of wire. Although this early computer was slow, its development shows how far technology increased during World War II. This is the launching of the USS Denver on April 4, 1942.