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Steiglitz shows O'Keefe Nudes at Anderson Galleries
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Ernest Hemingway moves to Paris
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Hemingway meets Gertrude Stein
Letter of introduction from Sherwood Anderson
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Stein introduces Hemingway to Ezra Pound and Pable Picasso
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Louis Armstrong joins Joe Oliver's Band in Chicago
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T.S.Eliot-The Waste Land
published in The Dial Magazine -
Lee DeForest's first exhibition of "talking pictures"
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Ford's International Push Begins
England and France, followed by Denmark (1923), Germany (1925), Austria (1925), and Argentina (1925), and also in South Africa (1924)and Australia (1925) as subsidiaries of Ford of Canada due to preferential tariff rules for Commonwealth countries. By the end of 1919, Ford was producing 50 percent of all cars in the United States, and 40% of all British cars.
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William Carlos Williams-The Red Wheelbarrow
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Louis Armstrong and Joe Oliver-New Orleans Stomp
Okeh Records -
Edward Weston-Nude, Mexico
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GM buys Vauxhall in UK for $2 million.
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Bell Labs founded
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Charlie Chaplin-The Gold Rush
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RCA forms National Broadcasting Company
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Hemingway's "Sun Also Rises" published
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Louis Armstrong and the Hot Five record "West End Blues"
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RCA acquires Victor Talking Machine Company
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Hemingway's "Farewell to Arms" published
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Black Monday-Wall Street Crash
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Lewis Milestone-All Quiet on the Western Front
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Charlie Chaplin-City Lights
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RCA PB-31-Ribbon Microphone released
Changed audio recording -
Louis Armstrong records "Lazy River"
First scat singing -
Franklin Roosevelt Inauguration
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Black Mountain College founded
By John Andrew Rice, recently fired from Rollins College -
Joseph Albers joins Black Mountain College Faculty
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Leo McCarey-Duck Soup
Herman Mankiewitz-co-producer -
O'Keefe's first Ghost Ranch paintings
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Federal Theater Project established
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de Kooning and Pollock start work for the Federal Art Project
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David Siqueiros runs workshop for General Strike for Peace and May Day parade.
Jackson Pollack attends and creates parade float -
Orson Welles' African American production of "Macbeth"
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Photo League founded
Paul Strand, Berniece Abbot, Ansel Adams, Margaret Bourke-white, Lewis Hine, Dorethea Lange -
James Agee and Walker Evans begin Sharecropper research for Fortune Magazine
Became Let Us now Praise Famous Men -
"Cradle Will Rock" opens at Venice Theater, New York
Mark Blitzstein writer
Orson Welles Director
Federal Theater Project -
Welles' "Julius Caesar" opens on Broadway
Longest running Broadway shakespeare play -
de Kooning's "Two Men Standing"
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Spirituals to Swing Concert at Carnegie Hall
Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Big Joe Turner and Pete Johnson, Helen Humes, Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons, Mitchell's Christian Singers, the Golden Gate Quartet, James P. Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry -
Bell Labs announces first electric computer
Model 1 Relay Computer
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Einstein-Szilrd letter sent to President Roosevelt
Beginning of the Atomic Age -
Victor Fleming-The Wizard of Oz
Herman Mankiewitz- first screeplay -
Production of "Citizen Kane" begins
Orson Welles -
Pete Seeger and Lee Hays form Almanac Singers
Fundraiser for Spanish Civil War loyalists at the Jade Mountain Restaurant, NYC
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Premiere of Citizen Kane
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Jay McShann records "Confessin' the Blues" with Charlie Parker on Sax
Parker's first recording date
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Roosevelt establishes Fair Employment Practices Committee
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"Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" published
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Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
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Paul Strand's film "Native Land" released
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Robert Oppenheimer convenes Atomic bomb group in Berkeley, CA
Hans Bethe, John Van Vleck, Edward Teller, Felix Bloch, Emil Konopinski, Robert Serber, Stanley S. Frankel, -
Musican's strike against the record companies
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Los Alamos National Laboratory opens
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Detroit Race Riot
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Musican's strike ends
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Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker at Town Hall
The birth of hard bop -
Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
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Bell Labs patents first solar cell
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Louis Armstrong Concert at Town Hall
Jack Teagarden -
First Hollywood HUAC hearing
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Congress cites Hollywood Ten for Contempt
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Pollack exhibits "No. 5" -Key drip painting
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Black Mountain College Summer session begins
Students-Arthur Penn, Kenneth Noland, Robert Rauschenberg, James Leo Herlihy and Ruth Asawa. Teachers-John Cage, Merce Cunningham,Joseph Albers, Willem de Kooning, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall and Buckminster Fuller -
FCC orders freeze of TV broadcasting licenses
NBC and CBS consolidate local control -
de Kooning's first solo exhibit at Charles Egan Gallery
New York
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Pete Seeger forms The Weavers
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Paul Strand goes into European exile
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Weaver's "Goodnight Irene" reaches #1 on pop charts
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Sen. Joseph McCarthy's Wheeling Speech
Held a list of "known Communists" working in the State Department -
NSC-68 issued
Top Secret Cold War strategy -
Sen. Margaret Chase Smith's "Declaration of Conscience" speech
Takes on Joe McCarthy -
Bell Labs announces the "Junction Transistor"
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Right Wing groups start picketing Weaver's concerts
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Dwight Eisenhower Inaugurated
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de Kooning's "Women" paintings shown at Sidney Janis Gallery
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Weavers Blacklisted-Radio play ended
Decca ends contract and withdraws recordings from catalogue -
Edward R. Murrow takes on Sen. Joe McCarthy
See it Now -
Sen Ralph Flanders introduces McCarthy Censure Resolution
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Senate votes to censure McCarthy
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Pete Seeger subpoened by HUAC
