Kettle Falls High School - Review Yearbook (Kettle Falls, WA)

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January 7, 1923. The Baltimore Sun exposes the reign of terror of the Ku Klux Klan in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana. where despite evidence of torture and murder of marked victims. a grand jury refused to bring an indictment. Estimated Klan membership is as high as 5 million: by 1930 it has declined to 9.000. August 2, 1923. Warren G. Harding dies mysteriously in San Francisco on his return from Alaska. Embolism is listed as the cause of death. Harding is succeeded by Calvin Coolidge. Keep Cool. May 4, 1924. Calvin Coolidge signs bill excluding all Japanese immigration and limiting immigration from other countries. July 10-21, 1925. John Scopes, a Tennessee schoolteacher, is tried and convicted for teaching evolution in public school. Prosecutor is William Jennings Bryan and defense attorney is Clarence Darrow. 1926. Ramon Navarro stars in Ben Hur: John Barrymore appears as Don Juan: Rudolph Valentino dies. November 12, 1926. First aerial bombardment on United States soil. During a feud between rival bootleggers, an airplane drops three bombs on the farmhouse of Charles Birger in Williamson County, Illinois. The bombs fail to explode. 1927. The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson is the first popular sound film. Summer, 1927. Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs. 1925. The New Yorker begins publication. 1925. F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is published by Scribner and Sons. American Fab Fwy August 2, 1927. Calvin Coolidge tells the press in Rapid City, South Dakota, 1 do not choose to run for President in 1928. The Uncle Sam Chronicles August 23, 1927. Nicolo Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti executed. 1928. Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse appears in theatres. January 1, 1928. An air-conditioned office building opens in San Antonio, Texas. June 26, 1928. Alfred E. Smith, Democratic governor of New York, becomes the first Catholic presidential nominee. October 14, 1928. Cora Dennison and James Fowlkes of Kansas City, Missouri are married on television. 1929. William Faulkner publishes The Sound and the Fury: Ernest Hemingway publishes A Farewell to Arms: Thomas Wolfe publishes Look Homeward Angel. January 13, 1929. The first talking picture in Esperanto is made by Paramount. September 5, 1929. The first-fly-it yourself airplane service is begun. October 29, 1929. Stock Market crashes. 155- l '-'rss 'WJ-. ,ur , F3 iiiQ9L,,..J 9

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January, 1935. Flea circus opens in New York. Admission is 5012. March 4, 1937. German dirigible Von Hindenberg explodes at Lakehurst, New Jersey. March 26, 1937. The Popeye Monument is unveiled in Crystal City, Texas. May 15, 1937. Clarence Saunders opens the Keedoozle Store in Memphis. Tennessee. The customer inserts a notched rod into a keyhole beside the desired item, the mechanism records the purchase, collects the correct funds, wraps and delivers the package. Keedoozle is a contraction of Key does it a11.' 1 1939. Clark Gable stars as Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind. 1940. Ernest Hemingway publishes For Whom the Bell Tolls. Eugene O'Neill writes Long Days Journey into Night. which is not produced until 1956. August 25, 1940. Ann Hayward and Arno Rudolphi are married while suspended on the parachute ride at the New York World's Fair. The Reverend Homer Tomlinson is also suspended by parachute, along with the best man, the maid of honor, and four musicians. The Uncle Sam Chronicles 1941. Orson Welles directs, produces and stars in Citizen Kane. The Marx Brothers appear in their last movie, The Big Store. 1941. The 'Manhattan Project' of research into the atomic bomb begins in Los Angeles and Chicago. December 7, 1941. Japanese airplanes attack Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and destroy much of the Pacific Fleet. December 8, 1941. The United States declares war on Japan. 1942. The Alaska Highway opens between Dawson Creek and Fairbanks. E? ..t..i.- 3. .h 5 6 1948. Jackson Pollock exhibits Composition No. June 8, 1948. J.E. Rudder is the first black commissioned officer in the United States Marines. November 2, 1948. Harry S. Truman defeats Thomas Dewey. The Chicago Tribune prints a headline reading Dewey Defeats Truman. 1951. J.D. Salinger publishes Catcher in the Rye. 1951.Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburr' appear in John Huston's The African Queen. November 4, 1952. Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Adlai Stevenson for the presidency. Vice-president is Richard Nixon. 1953. B'wana Devil is the first 3-dimensional movie. 7 July 27, 1953. Korean War ends with armistic signing at Panmunjom. C 1953-54. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin conducts a series of hearings into Communist subversion of government and American life. Eisenhower denounces McCarthy on June 14, 1953. On December 2, 1954, the Senate condemns McCarthy by a vote of 67-22. 1955. Alan Freed, a New York disc jockey, popularizes the term Rock 'n' Roll. He combin two Bill Haley song titles: Rock Around the Clock and Shake, Rattle and Roll. Chuck Berry records Maybelline Elvis Presley records Milk Cow Boogie Blues for Sun Records in Nashville. December 1, 1955. Black bus boycotts begin in Montgomery, Alabama. CS m . 'e S : at 'Ll E 2 ta va Q QE E N See 3 -S asses 133.05 2 2-5 EQ.: N 26542 331.5 Q5 N? -'im SITQWQ-. 5 Sdn? o N UF ., -SLSKE M 'C--.2 -': Of: 0 lubbgi Nfwst-vase 5 N: November 6, 1956. Eisenhower defeats Stevenson. 1957. Jack Kerouac publishes On the Road. 1957. Chuck Berry records Rock and Roll Music q Elvis Presley records All Shook Up. 1957. Herb Caen, a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle coins the term beatnik'. September, 1957. Governor Orval' M. Faubus uses the Arkansas National Guard to prevent integration of the Little Rock school system. A Federal District Court subsequently issues an injunction barring him from obstructing black students' entry. February 2, 1960. Blacks begin sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in Southern states. May 1, 1960. American U-2 spy plane piloted by Gary Powers is shot down over Russia. 8 Green Beret, Viet Nam