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- 401: Will Rogers
- ... know what I read in the papers." In this way, he tried to show that he wasn't a Washington insider; he got his information out of the newspapers, just like regular folk. During the Depression, many people were worried about what was going on in Washington. When Will pointed out some politican who said one thing and did another, or criticized some program in Washington he didn't approve of ... himself, which allowed everyone to relax and see the good sense behind much of what he said about the rest of society. This generous attitude translated into many other areas of his life. During the Depression, Will was very sympathetic to those who had lost everything-their savings, their jobs, and their sense of security. He himself had lost his entire fortune when the stock market crashed, but at least he ...
- 402: Pablo Picasso
- ... war also caused his separation from his friends. In 1917, a young writer, Jean Cocteau, persuaded Picasso to leave Paris and travel to Rome, after the sudden death of Marcelle Humbert. Following a phase of depression, Picasso designed sets for the ballet "Parade", in which Cubist "stage managers" were involved. In the opening-night, the audience hissed at the ballet performance but applauded Picasso's painted curtain. In 1918, Picasso married ... synthetic cubism from 1913 into the following decade." Blue Period: This style emphasized a variety of Grey-Blues. The figures were mostly long, thin and sad. This "Blue Period" was a time of sadness and depression for Picasso, and his sadness was expressed in many of his paintings. Rose Period: This style emphasized a variety of Pinkish colours, lighter and warmer. The figures were mostly of circus life, and actors. It ...
- 403: Ozzy Osbourne
- ... many ways because of the fact that his life was getting better and his drug abuse was slowing down His music started to take a different approach. It started to change from a lot of depression to things that were going on in the era he was in or things that have happened instead of things that were happening to him. Like the song "Killer of Giants." If none of us ... so Ozzy did what he could do to help out even if it did mean he had to steal. He used drugs often because of the life he lived and also because of his deep depression and state of mind. But Ozzy would not be who he is today if he had lived a different life. If his family was rich I bet he would have never started a musical career ...
- 404: Howard Hughes
- ... talking picture they would have to make sense. He also demanded that the cast be completely overhauled out of fear that one individual might not sound good reading his lines. Production continued through the great depression, and in May of 1930 the film was completed. Hughes had shot 3,000,000 feet of film, of which only 1% was used in the final production, and spent almost 4 million dollars. The ... on to something more exciting. In the summer of 1932, Howard Hughes took a job with American Airlines under the name Charles Howard. His salary was $250 a week, an excellent wage during the great depression (unless youre already a millionaire.) Hughes masqueraded in this position for two months, carrying baggage, talking to passengers and working as a co-pilot for the commercial airline. In the late summer of 1932 ...
- 405: Mackenzie King - Canadian Prime Minister
- ... speeches, and he champions no drastic stage. He is remembered for his easygoing, passive compromise and conciliation (Gregory, page 267). Yet Mackenzie King led Canada for a total of twenty-two years, through half the Depression and all of the Second World War. Like every other prime minister, he had to possess ambition, endurance and determination to become prime minister and, in spite if appearances, his accomplishments in that role required ... 1920s to reduce the war debt and to introduce an old-age pension system. Although the Liberals lost the 1930 election, it was to their benefit in the long run. The worst years of the Depression were related with the Conservatives. The Liberals were reinstated in government in 1935. King led the nation through the Second World War, during which Canada contribute food supplies, financial aid, the British Commonwealth Air Training ...
- 406: William Lyon Mackenzie
- ... family wasn t well, either. One of his children was near death, his wife was sick, and a month later, his mother, his greatest supporter, died. In May, 1840, due to his constant bouts of depression and letters of complaint, Mackenzie was pardoned and let out of prison. He hadn t even served one full year in jail! Upon his freedom, Mackenzie started making new editions of the Gazette. The new ... mayor of Toronto. His health started returning in June of 1861, and he toyed with the idea of running for the legislature. His moods brightened, and friends who had run off during his fits of depression returned en mass. He was not a happy man, though. Creditors plagued him, and he suffered bouts of mental illness, until on August 28, 1861, he died of an apoplectic seizure. William Lyon Mackenzie is ...
- 407: Willem De Kooning
- ... Manhattan, painted signs and worked as a carpenter in New York City. Then in 1935, he landed a job with the Works Progress Administration, a government agency that put artists to work during the Great Depression. By the next decade, he had attained a place in the downtown art scene among his fellow artists. By the late 1940s, de Kooning along with Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman ... Kline gave himself away to a heart attack at 52. Three years later David Smith died in a car crash at 59 and in 1970 Mark Rothko, slit his wrists while battling ever-deepening alcoholic depression. Willem de Kooning was the principal member of the Abstract Expressionism. Abstract Expressionism gave birth as a reaction to years of struggle against conservative taste, improvised circumstances and reinforced by confused feelings created after World ...
- 408: Us Presidents 30-42
- ... report nearly two years later. The report was self-contradictory, and nothing came of it. Hoover's administration, like that of Martin Van Buren almost a century earlier, was dominated by one development--an economic depression. The disastrous slump that began when the stock market crashed on Oct. 29, 1929, left from 12 to 14 million Americans unemployed before the end of Hoover's term. In the 1930 congressional elections the ... in time of economic crisis, though not directly to the masses of unemployed. 32. President - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Term - March 4, 1933 to April 12, 1945 While Roosevelt was governor of New York, the Great Depression tightened its grip on the country. Roosevelt, seeking new ideas, enlisted a "brains trust" of Columbia University professors to help him devise programs against hard times. These professors included Rexford Tugwell, Raymond Moley, and Adolf ...
- 409: Ralph Waldo Emerson 2
- ... an inspiration to the people, some background on his life is essential. Can you imagine living a life with all your loved ones passing away one by one? A persons life could collapse into severe depression, it could lose all hope and meaning. They could build a morbid outlook on life. Ralph Waldo Emerson suffered these things. He was born on May 25, 1803 and entered into a new world, a ... in 1834, Charles in 1836, and his son Waldo (from his second wife Lydia Jackson) in 1842. After such a traumatic life, you might expect that Emerson, like any other person, would collapse into severe depression, and lose meaning to his life. But Emerson was different. He found the answers within himself and rebounded into a mature man. After surviving a mentally hard life, Ralph Waldo Emerson seemed to gain more ...
- 410: Pablo Picasso 2
- ... war also caused his separation from his friends. In 1917, a young writer, Jean Cocteau, persuaded Picasso to leave Paris and travel to Rome, after the sudden death of Marcelle Humbert. Following a phase of depression, Picasso designed sets for the ballet "Parade", in which Cubist "stage managers" were involved. In the opening-night, the audience hissed at the ballet performance but applauded Picasso's painted curtain. In 1918, Picasso married ... synthetic cubism from 1913 into the following decade." Blue Period: This style emphasized a variety of Grey-Blues. The figures were mostly long, thin and sad. This "Blue Period" was a time of sadness and depression for Picasso, and his sadness was expressed in many of his paintings. Rose Period: This style emphasized a variety of Pinkish colours, lighter and warmer. The figures were mostly of circus life, and actors. It ...
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