Week 2 — Encyclopedia by Letters
This week I’m reading an entry from each letter of the alphabet (26 entries if you’re keeping score) from a different Encyclopedia every day.
Today was Encyclopedia of the Great Depression, and here’s what I read about:
- American Youth Congress
- Bourke-White, Margaret
- Conservative Coalition
- Disney, Walt
- Ezekiel, Mordecai
- Fair Labor Standards Act
- Gold Diggers of 1933
- Henderson, Leon
- Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
- Johnson, Lyndon B.
- Kristallnacht
- Lindbergh, Charles
- Mills, Ogden
- Norris-La Guardia Act
- Olson, Floyd B.
- Peace Movement
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- Raper, Arthur
- Social Workers
- Thomas, Norman
- United Mine Workers of America (UMWA)
- Vann, Robert
- Weaver, Robert Clifton
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The impression I got from Jonathan Alter’s The Defining Moment (or maybe it was a PBS special) was that FDR remained isolationist as late as his 1940 campaign. Even so, it seems people were derided for being isolationist and/or pacifist earlier than that. The things you learn! BTW, did you know Charles Lindbergh was born in Detroit?
Altogether, it’s a neat little two-volume set.
Week 1 note: I had a Turk-free weekend. When I’ve completed 8 hours, I’ll post the final tally.