CAMILLE BOHANNON

Inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris, the Ziegfeld Follies
were conceived and mounted by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.,
reportedly at the suggestion of his then-wife, the actress
and singer Anna Held. The shows’ producers were turn-
of-the-twentieth-century producing titans Klaw and Erlanger.

The Follies were a series of lavish revues, something between
later Broadway shows and the more elaborate high class
vaudeville and variety show. The first follies, The Follies of
1907, was produced that year at the Jardin de Paris roof
theatre.

Florenz Edward Ziegfeld Jr.
(March 21, 1867 – July 22, 1932)

The Peace Patrol was a U.S. Savings Stamp and Bond program
targeted at school-aged children called “Little Savers” that was
launched in the late 1950s.

   
Andrew Jackson Jr (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845)

On January 8, 1835, President Andrew Jackson achieved his
goal of entirely paying off the United States’ national debt. It
was the only time in U.S. history that the national debt stood
at zero, and it precipitated one of the worst financial crises in
American history.

On December 2, 2001, the Enron Corporation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a New York court, sparking one of the
largest corporate scandals in U.S. history.

On November 15, 1867, the first stock ticker was unveiled in New 
York City. The advent of the ticker ultimately revolutionized the
stock market by making up-to-the-minute prices available to
investors around the country.

Prior to this development, information from the New York Stock Exchange, which has been around since 1792, traveled by mail
or messenger.

The ticker was the brainchild of Edward Calahan (1838-1912) who configured a telegraph machine to print stock quotes on streams
of paper tape (the same paper tape later used in ticker-tape
parades).