by Alice Echols
Los Angeles, California: B&L scandals; and Colorado Springs capitalists; Depression-era antitax activism; Hollywood Guaranty embezzlement scandal; savings and loan industry leaders’ reputations; sprawl and fragmented urbanism
Los Angeles Times
Loyal Order of Moose
Ludlow massacre (1914)
MacNeill, Charles
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge (Oregon)
Manitou Mineral Water Company
Marker, I.J.
Marshall, G.M.
Mason, David L.
Masons
mass culture and mass consumption (1920s)
McAdoo, William
McFerson, Grant
McGirr, Lisa
McKinnie, James R.
McNicol Stock, Catherine
Meikle, John
military: Colorado Springs’ boosters courting of; Colorado Springs’ militarized economy; conservatism and American West; NORAD
Mill and Smeltermen’s Union
Miller, Byron
Mine Owners Association (MOA)
minimum wage legislation
Mitchell, Charles E.
Modern Building and Loan Company (Pittsburgh)
Modern Woodmen of America
Moffat Tunnel
moneylending (loan sharks); chattel loans; and defaulted borrowers; as “fringe financing”; installment credit and buying “on-time”; rates; reforms and small loan laws; self-justifications and defenses of; techniques of intimidation; Walter Davis’s acquisition of City Savings and Loan Association; Walter Davis’s career as “The Loan Man”; and women’s labor
Monument Valley Park
Morgan, J.P.
Morgan, J.P., Jr.
Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company
Myron Stratton Home (Colorado Springs)
National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)
National City Bank
National Council of the Unemployed
Nelson, Robert
nescience
Netzer, Richard
Neuman, Isadore
New Deal; and the American West; anti-tax movement and opposition to; and Colorado Democrats; homeownership programs; old-age pensions; opposition and right-wing backlash; racially discriminatory programs; as the “Raw Deal”; relief programs for the poor and unemployed; as “the long exception”; welfare state
New Life mega-church (Colorado Springs)
New York Herald Tribune
New York Mutual Savings and Loan Association
New York Times; on B&L failures; on contrast between local and national B&Ls; on Cripple Creek labor wars; on It’s a Wonderful Life; on loan sharks; on taxpayers’ leagues of the 1930s
New Yorker
Niles, L.G.
Nixon, Richard
NORAD
Norquist, Grover
Norris, Frank
Nowels, T.E., Sr.
The Octopus (Norris)
Odets, Clifford
old-age pensions
open shop movement
Organization of the Unemployed
Oskison, J.M.
Oswald, George
Palmer, William J.; founding of Colorado Springs; tax resistance
Pape, Dominick
Parkside Hotel (New York City)
Paul, Rand
pawn dealers
payday lending
Peabody, James
Pecora Committee hearings
Pegler, Westbrook
Penrose, Boies
Penrose, Spencer; business-partnership with Tutt; and Colorado Springs tourism industry; and Colorado Springs’ wealthy Socialites
People’s Party
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: B&L failures; B&L industry; capitalists; Depression-era bank closings
Pikes Peak Baptist Church (west Colorado Springs)
Pikes Peak Highway
Pikes Peak region of Colorado: gold rush; radical unionism. See also Colorado Springs (city)
Piketty, Thomas
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: B&L failures; Depression-era bank closings; moneylenders
Ponzi, Charles
Populist Party
Postlethwaite, William
Pratt, Clara
Pratt, J. Herbert; Common Sense Weekly; and Depositors’ Committee
The Price of Salt (Highsmith)
privatization
Prohibition
public utilities: debates over municipal ownership of; utility holding companies
Pueblo, Colorado; Moffat Tunnel project; Railway Savings B&L
Purcell, George W.
“racketeers”
railroad, transcontinental; D&RG service between Colorado Springs and Denver
Railway Savings Building and Loan (Pueblo, Colorado)
Reagan, Ronald
Real Estate Owners Protective Association
receiverships; City’s receivership and investigation; and CSLC’s assignment scams; Fertig as City receiver; Home B&L; liquidation vs.; Turner as City’s co-receiver
Recession, Great
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Reed, Verner Z.
Reed, Verner Z., Jr.
relief, poor; Colorado state programs; opposition to; the unemployed
Republican Party: attacks on progressives; Colorado Citizens’ Alliance; Goldwater nomination; and the Great Depression recovery; opposition to the New Deal; Roy Davis’s political career; and taxpayer associations
Riordan, J.J.
Rocky Mountain News
Rogers, Charles
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (FDR); and debate over municipal ownership public utilities; Depression recovery and New Deal
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rotary Club
Roth, Benjamin
Sacco, Lynn
Salvation Army
Salvatore, Nick
Sample, Dewey
Sandage, Scott
Sanders, Bernie
Satter, Beryl
Saunders, Miles
savings and loan associations (S&Ls); creation of; crisis of the 1980s; deregulation; federally insured deposits; and interest rates; public’s initial wariness of
Scripps-Howard newspaper chain
SDI National Text Bed Facility
Seeman, Bernard
Seligman, Arthur
Seligman, Otis
Senate Committee on Banking and Currency (Pecora Committee)
service-sector jobs
Sharer, Edward C.; arrest and jailing; and B&L scandal; Dollar Building and Loan Association; forgery cases; land speculation; lawsuits against; and Manitou Mineral Water Company; and Roy Davis; and Walter Davis
Sharer, Myrtle
Shergold, Peter R.
Shermer, Elizabeth
Shields, John A.
Shoup, Merrill; divorce; and the El Paso County Taxpayers Association; and Goldwater
Shoup, Miriam
Shoup, Oliver, Jr.
Shoup, Oliver H.; debate over municipal ownership of public utilities; as governor; land speculation; Moffat Tunnel project; and Sharer
Shrine Club
Silverado Savings & Loan (Denver)
Sims, Anna Belle
Sims, Margaret
Sims, Robert; suicide
Sims, Willis; Assurance Savings and Loan; embezzlement; suicide
Sinclair, Upton
Sister Carrie (Dreiser)
Smemo, Kristoffer
Smith, Francis Drexel
Smith, Ruth
Snowden, Kenneth A.
social mobility
socialism; and debate over municipal ownership of public utilities
Socialist Party
Spivey, Victoria
Sprague, Marshall
Standard Mill (Colorado City)
Starrett, Clyde
State Realty Company
State Savings Bank (Colorado Springs)
steel industry
stenography profession: feminization of; rel
ationships between female stenographers and their male bosses; Walter Davis’s work
Stern, Philip Van Doren
Stewart, P.B.
Stewart, Ruie
stock market crash (October 1929); Black Tuesday; prosecutions; Senate investigation
Stratton, Charles E.
Stratton, W.S.
Strom, Sharon H.
Stubbs, Merton
Sunnyrest Sanatorium (Colorado Springs)
Sutherland, O.S.
Sweet, William E.
TABOR (Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights)
Taft-Hartley Act (1947)
Taper, Mark
taxpayers’ leagues and antitax activism; and B&L industry trade group; and B&L scandal; California’s Proposition 13 and property taxes; Colorado Springs Depositors’ Committee; cross-class tax revolts of the 1930s; Depression-era Los Angeles; El Paso County Taxpayers Association; Nixon’s “Silent Majority”; opposition to relief for the unemployed; opposition to the New Deal; Palmer; and Republican Party; role in state and local politics; TABOR; working class antitax activists
Tea Party movement
Tent City Pikes Peak
Terry, Eva: abdominal surgeries; and B&L scandal; claims against Davis estate; police questioning and county jail time; relationship with Walter Davis; and Walter’s suicide; working-class family background
Terry, Luke
Terry, Warren
Texas: B&L industry collapse; S&L crisis
Thernstrom, Stephan
thirties (1930s): conservative opposition to New Deal reforms; Dust Bowl; kidnapping plots; reform ideals; taxpayers’ leagues; unionism. See also building and loan industry scandal (B&L scandal); Depression, Great; New Deal
Thompson, E.P.
thrift industry: amateurism; and cooperative movements; Depression-era federal regulation and new regulatory regime; expansion in the 1920s; fight against regulation; post-scandal public mistrust of; Reagan-era deregulation; standard histories of. See also building and loan associations (B&Ls); moneylending (loan sharks); savings and loan associations (S&Ls)
tourism industry (Colorado Springs); Depression-era collapse; and service-sector jobs
Trumbo, Dalton
tuberculosis (TB) and rest cure industry
Turner, Thomas C.; as City’s co-receiver (and lawsuit)
Tutt, Charles, Jr.
Tutt, Charles, Sr.
twenties (1920s); B&L industry expansion; Davis family; decline of gold production and gold-based economy; mass culture and mass consumption; October 1929 stock market crash; personal debt and consumer purchases; speculative culture; stigma of divorce; tax code changes
Uniform Small Loan Law
Union Industrial Bank (Flint, Michigan)
unions. See labor, organized United Mine Workers
United States League of Local Building and Loan Associations
United States Reduction and Refining Company (USR&R)
United States Space Command
U.S. Air Force
U.S. Army
U.S. Rubber
U.S. Steel
The Virginian (Wister)
Vivian, John
Waite, Davis
Waldorf Astoria Hotel (New York City)
Walker, Arthur Elvis
Walker, Jimmy
Walker, Scott
Wall Street: American capitalism and; Main Street vs.; October 1929 stock market crash
West, American: California gold rush; Colorado Springs as prototypical/as prefiguring; conservatism; as “empire of innocence”; federal expenditures in; hostility to the federal government; militarized economy; mining industry; Native Americans; post–Civil War development of
Western Federation of Miners (WFM)
White, Richard
Whitman, Walt
Winchell, Walter
Wister, Owen
Womack, Robert
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
World War I Liberty Bond campaign
World War II
WPA Guide to 1930s Colorado
About the Author
Alice Echols is a professor of history and the Barbra Streisand Chair of Contemporary Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. She is author of several books including Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin, and Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture. She lives in Los Angeles.
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