The 1920's and 1930's
Warren G. Harding won the Presidential election by a 60 percent of the popular vote. Word began to reach the President that some of his friends were using their official positions for their own benefits. When warren found out about this he took action as soon as possible, he started an investigation. He did not live to find out how the public would react to the scandals of his administration or how or who was involved in the scandals. In August of 1923, he died in San Francisco, California of a heart attack. Warren G. Harding declared, "America's present need is not heroics, but healing, not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration, not agitation, but adjustment, not surgery, but serenity, not the dramatic, but the dispassionate, not experiment, but equipoise, not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality."Calvin Coolidge strongly favored frugality in Government. As President, Coolidge demonstrated his determination to preserve the old moral and economic precepts amid the material prosperity, which many Americans were enjoying. He refused to use Federa
Until the 1990s no trial in American history had attracted more attention, and been more misunderstood, than the 1925 trial in Dayton, Tennessee, of John Thomas Scopes, accused of violating a state law banning the teaching of human evolution. The July trial lasted eight days while the whole time the temperature was in the uppers 90's, attracted international news coverage. The Chicago radio station WGN made history by broadcasting the trial.
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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