Adolf Hitler.
Earnest Hemingway. There’s a bar that was called Sloppy Joe’s (now Capt. Tony’s Saloon) in Key West and the sign on it said Hemingway spent a few years in there over the '30s. I have a litho of the bar in my bathroom and I associate it with the 30s now.
poverty and crime
for some odd reason – Charlie Chan.
Hoover (Herbert) came first, though on further reflection, yeah, I’d have found others more appropriate.
Leslie Charteris.
I suppose Ernie was pretty Earnest, now that you mention it.
Eleanor Roosevelt.
Capone for me
My mom, too. She’s the first one I thought of.
J. Edgar Hoover, for some reason, then the other Hoover (Herbert).
Regards,
Shodan
Zeldar.
Hitler for me as well but first thought was the Great Depression which of course is not a person.
Neville Chamberlain
Jean Harlow.
Depending on my mood, sometimes Ginger Rogers or Miriam Hopkins.
Except the crossing was in 1927.
The Dionne Quintuplets… but just one of them, I guess…
Sidney Bechet
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Amelia Earhart