The Peoople

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Charles Lindbergh

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A pioneering US Aviator famous for piloting the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927

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T.S. Eliot

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An American-born poet, dramatist, and liteerary critic, whose works, such as the Love Song of J.Alred Prufrock, The Waste Land, and Four Quartets, are considered definiing achievements of twentieth century Modernist poetry

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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An Irish American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer and wrote the great Gatsby

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Theodore Dreisser

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An American naturalist author known for dealing with the gritty reality of life ; wrote SISTER CARRIE and AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY

HINT: my sister dresses very gritty

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Sinclair Lewis

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An American novelist and playwright; 1930- became the first American to win the Nobel prize in Literature. His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American society and capitalist values


HINT: Singing is very critical of capitalists

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Ernest Hemingway

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An American novelist, short story writer, and journalism and part of the "Lost Generation"


HINT: He was HEMING- but LOST his way

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Gertrude Stein

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An american writer, poet, feminist, playwright, and catalyst in the developlment of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in France

HINT: Gerr... feminists are in all the plays about art and lit

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Langston Hughes

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An Americn poet, playwright, and newspaper columnist. He is best known for his work during the Harlem Renissance.

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Marcus Garvey

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Best remembered as a champion of the "Back-To-Africa" movement, which encourage Africans to return to their ancestral homelands

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Harry Hopkins

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Roosevelt's cheif diplomatic advidsor and headed the $48 billion Lend Lease program that sent aid to the allies


HINT: Harry likes to hop and Lend to Ally

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Huey Long

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A backer of FDR in the 1932 Presidential election but split with Roosevelt in June 1933 and planned to mount his own presidential bid

HINT: Long people don't like FDR

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Father Coughlin

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One of the first Evangelists to preach to a widespread listening audience over the medium of radio during the Great Depression


HINT: WHen you're depressed, cough and listen to the radio father

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John Steinbeck

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An american writer; Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962 for his novel East of Eden; Wrote Of Mice and Men + Grapers of Wrath which exmine the lives of the working class during the Great Depression

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Francis Perkins

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First femail Cabinet member

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Alf Landon

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Nomination of Republican opponent to FDR