CHAPTER 8
Old Dogs Have Lots to Offer: Signposts for the Traditional Generation
“There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue.”
—Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, September 1929
Critical Events in the Lives of Traditionals
1927 Lindbergh flies the Atlantic
1929 Stock market crash
1929 Great Depression
1932 FDR elected 1933 Roosevelt launches the New Deal
1935 Dust Bowl
1935 Social Security Act passes
1937 Hindenburg explodes 1939 Hitler invades Poland
1941 Pearl Harbor attacked
1944 D-day
1945 FDR dies
1945 Atom bomb dropped on Japan—Word War II ends
1950 Korean War begins
1952 Eisenhower elected
1953 Korean War ends
1954 McCarthy hearings begin
1955 Jonas Salk announces release of first polio vaccine
Mary, ...
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