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OCR: TIME The 1920s Almanac of the 20th Century January 1923-December 1929 ELECTIONS time of flux, of TIME PORTRAITS political crisis to flappers , flasks and another. War debts COOLIDGE the fre netic activity and reparations hin- of the Jazz Age. dered economic AND Economic prosper- activity and trade DAWES ity caught up with and guaranteed that, 1924 millions of Ameri- when the 1929 cans for the first stock market crash time , making them ended America's HOOVER able to buy auto- Henry Ford mobiles, refrigera- MAN OF THE YEAR TOP STORIES prosperity, many 1923-1929 countries would tors and radios, and share in the result- 1928 speculate in the passed millions of farmers, by. ing Depression. stock market; but it others, especially The 1920s was Else where in the The world into the first decade of world , the conse- modernism; TIME which TIME was the quences of the war world more or less were far harsher Albert Einstein as we know it today REPEAL than for Ameri- civil war and wide- emerged from the cans. The advent spread starvation carnage of World of Communism before consolidat- War I and the disil- 18" Amendmer had wrecked the ing his tyranny. lusionment that fol- Soviet Union and Germany, devastat- lowed an armistice Despot Josef Stalin ed by war and eco- that did not bring FIRST ISSUE PROHIBITION had to let the coun- nomic collapse, COMMUNISM real peace. It was a OF TIME & CRIME try recover from lurched from one & SOCIALISM