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Will Rogers

4 Nov 2020

Will and Eddie

by Andrew Speno | posted in: Eddie Rickenbacker, Will Rogers | 0

Happy Will Rogers Day! The boy who would grow up to become the beloved Cowboy Philosopher was born on this day, November 4, 1879. That year it was Election Day. In 2020, it is merely Aftermath Day. Rogers’s death day, … Continued

Eddie Rickenbacker, Will Rogers
6 Nov 2018

Weighty Elections

by Andrew Speno | posted in: Democracy and Government, Will Rogers | 0

Change was long overdue.  The stock market had crashed in Hoover’s first year as president.  Prospects looked bad for the next two years before turning truly dire in 1931.  Democrats, who hadn’t held power since the war, knew their time … Continued

elections, Great Depression, Will Rogers
15 Sep 2018

“The Great Ziegfeld” Captures American Excess of the 1920s

by Andrew Speno | posted in: Will Rogers | 0

Watched The Great Ziegfeld last night.  The movie, produced in 1935-36, was an homage to the recently departed impresario.  (He had died barely three years earlier.)  It was also a lifeline for his indebted widow, Billie Burke, who sold the … Continued

1929 Crash, Broadway, Florenz Ziegfeld, Follies, Roaring Twenties, Will Rogers
11 Sep 2018

Four Horsemen

by Andrew Speno | posted in: Will Rogers | 0

“Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden.” This would not have … Continued

Four Horsemen, Grantland Rice, Notre Dame, Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Will Rogers
4 Aug 2018

92 Years Ago Today: Channel Fever

by Andrew Speno | posted in: Will Rogers | 0

In late summer, 1926, the North Atlantic world was struck by Channel-crossing Fever.  Five hearty souls had already swum the waterway dividing England and France, beginning as far back as 1875, so what was all the fuss?  For starters, three … Continued

Channel Swimming, Gertrude Ederle, Will Rogers
6 May 2018

Two Okies, Both Loved

by Andrew Speno | posted in: Will Rogers | 0

Before Woody Guthrie strummed out his version of “Hobo’s Lullaby,” he had probably seen–and laughed at–Will Rogers’s lovable tramp, Jubilo, in the movies.  As an older teenager, he had likely heard–and was moved by–Rogers’s words on the radio: “The only … Continued

Great Depression, Will Rogers, Woody Guthrie
21 Feb 2018

“Will Rogers Says”: Divide the Country in Two

by Andrew Speno | posted in: Will Rogers | 0

Divided. Polarized. Broken. Is the state of our politics at an all-time low? Is our grand experiment in republican government breaking apart? Our fears may overblown, yet they are hard to dismiss out of hand. The nation faced its greatest … Continued

Great Depression, NIRA, polarization, radio broadcast, Will Rogers

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