Economic Changes that Occured Between 1929 and 1950.

Economic Changes

Since Hickok failed college, she was hired at a Train Station to cover the Train's Arrivals and Departures for $7 week. She joined the Milwaukee Sentinel, in an attempt to following the footsteps of Edna Ferber, a novelist and reporter. She was hired as a society editor, but she quit that job and moved to the city where she wanted to be an interviewer. As an interviewer, she interviewed famous celebrities such as actress Lillian Russell, Opera Singers Nellie Melba and Geraldine Farrar. She also quite her job there because she didn't like the city and moved to Minneapolis in order to work for the Minneapolis Tribune. She was given unusual opportunities for a female reporters such as the Paper's Chief Reporters. She had to cover politics, sports and prepare editorials. In 1923, Hickok was awarded for writing the best story of the month written the President Harding's funeral train. As a reporter and interviewer she was becoming very famous and received more award than any other reporters. In Minneapolis, Hickok was living with a reporter, Ella Morse and in 1926, Hickok was diagnosed with Diabetes and Morse really persuaded Hickok to quit that job and take a leave so they could be together and Hickok could write a novel. They both went to San Francisco and Morse unexpectedly left Hickok and eloped with her boyfriend. She regretted quitting he job, but she had to for her friend and now her friend left Hickok. She didn't want to return to Minneapolis, so Hickok moved to New York and got another job at the New York Daily Mirror. She worked there for about a year and could not forget about her friend, so she quit that job also. She was regretting every job that she quit and she took a month leave to refresh her mind. Then in 1928, she joined the Associated Press, where she became the top correspondents. She wrote a story in November 1928 about the sinking of the USS Vestris. Then she published it in the New York Times. She was the first woman to appear in the paper and everyone was impressed about her. She then began to report about the Lindbergh Kidnapping and other events. She became so famous that she did not want to quit her job here and by 1932, she was known as the “nation’s best-known female reporter".