PEOPLE OF THE THIRTIES

By Taylor Sharp, McKenna Gernander, Martha Krawczynski

Shirley Temple

• Was born on April 23rd, 1928

• “Shone through the clouds of the depression

years”

• Her first appearance was in 1932

• Became a #1 box office in U.S./Britain

• Her salary rose to $100,000 per movie

• “Baby Take a Bow” got her a Fox contract

• Little girls around the US wanted to be like her

• In movies, she was usually placed as an orphan

in a horrible and her joy would “rescue” the

adults

• She dances, acts, and sings

Lou Gehrig

• 1903-1941• Was the star player of the Yankees in the 1930’s• During his career as a Yankee he:• Played 2,130consecutive games• hit 493 home runs• Won 6 world championships• 1932- hit 4 home runs in one game • Got 2 MVP awards• Won a Triple Crown in 1934

• Was known as the “Iron Horse” because he played through injuries such as:• Back spasms• Broken toe• Broken thumb• 17 different hand fractures

Lou Gehrig

• In 1939 he was diagnosed with a rare muscle disease

• He announced it to the crowd of his last baseball game and

said: “Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the

face of the earth”

• The muscle disease is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALA)

• The nickname for it is “Lou Gehrig’s Disease”

• The disease:

• Breaks down tissues in the nervous system

• Affects the nerves responsible for movement

• Makes you lose the ability to move any muscle in

the body

Franklin Roosevelt

◦ (1933-1945)

◦Second president during the Great Depression

◦Started the New Deal

◦Created programs

◦Social Security

◦Becomes “War President”

◦Very wealthy family

◦Was taught public service is important

Herbert Hoover

◦(1929-1933)

◦President when the depression started

◦Stock market crashed in Oct. 1929

◦Waited for the businesses to figure something out

◦In 1932 he started helping out

◦Gave out laws

◦Worked out relations with Latin America or other places

◦Gave out laws on foreign policy

◦Last 4 months bank failures and unemployment failed

◦New law passed saying that his election had to end earlier

Mary McLeod Bethune

◦ Born in Mayesville, South Carolina, on July 20, 1875

◦ In 1904 she moved to Daytona, Florida, where she created a

school for African American girls.

◦ The school merged to form Bethune-Cookman College in 1929

◦ A Founder of the National Council of Negro Women in 1939

◦ Recruited to the Federal Council of Negro Affairs

◦ Helped establish “Black Cabinet”

◦ Pushed to get blacks included in the New Deal programs.

William H. Hastie

◦ Born November 17, 1904 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

◦ Was a high ranking official in the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt

◦ Chosen by Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, to serve as assistant solicitor.

◦ One of his tasks was to reorganize the government of the U.S. Virgin

Islands

◦ Served as federal district judge from 1937 to 1939

◦ Appointed by Roosevelt to judgeship. He was the first African American to

serve of the federal bench.

◦ Became involved in the March of Washington.

◦ Served as governor of the Virgin Island until his retirement in 1971.

News

• Elections

• Hoover and Roosevelts elections were all over the

news

• Radios

• Changed the energy in the depression

• People listened to the news to find more about

these people

• Everything that happened in the elections was on

the news

News

• New deal

• Hoover spoke on the news to explain it

• Told everyone all the concepts about it

• Explained why he was doing this

• Also new laws

• Told people what was going to happen

• Why they were introduced