American Decades
The Real Estate Boom
Speech before the Birmingham, Michigan, Real Estate Board
Speech
By: James Couzens
Date: October 7, 1925
Source: Couzens, James. Speech before the Birmingham, Michigan, Real Estate Board, October 7, 1925. "James Couzens Papers." Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921–1929. American Memory digital primary source collection, Library of Congress. Available online at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/coolhome.html; website home page: http://memory.loc.gov (accessed May 14, 2003).
About the Author: James Couzens (1872–1936) moved to Detroit, Michigan, from his Chatham, Ontario, birthplace in 1890. Couzens spent his early career working closely with Henry Ford during the extraordinary growth and development of the Ford Motor...
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1920's Business and the Economy Primary Sources
- Women in the Office
- "The Negro Working Woman"
- Twelfth Annual Report of the Secretary of Commerce, 1924
- The Real Estate Boom
- Installment Buying
- Regulating Radio
- "The Shop Chairmen, the Rank and File and the 'Prosanis' Label"
- "No Backward Step in Federal Aid For Road Building Can Be Taken"
- Calvin Coolidge And Nicaragua
- "Open Letter to the Pullman Company"
- "The Present Status and Future Prospects of Chains of Department Stores"
- Federal Farm Policy
- "Hamlin Memorandum and Diary Extracts, Showing Federal Reserve Board Response to 1927 Recession and Stock Market: July 1, 1927–January 4, 1929"
- "A New Era … an Economic Revolution of the Profoundest Character"
- "Brokers and Suckers"
- The Southern Urban Negro as Consumer
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
