Presidential Chronicles

Episode #284: Warren Harding #7: Second Year Challenges (1922)


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Warren Harding #7: Second Year Challenges (1922); Topics covered include: Fordney-McCumber Tariff, Ship Subsidy Bill (doesn't pass), Agriculture Conference, labor strife (textile workers, coal miners, and railroad shopmen), results of strikes including injunction against striking railroad workers, advocates end to 12-hour workday in steel industry, scandal in Veterans Bureau (Charles Forbes), Florence Harding illness, and midterm election results


Key people include: Florence Harding, Albert Lasker, Henry Wallace, Harry Daugherty, James Wilkerson, Al Capone, Herbert Hoover, Charles Evans Hughes, Albert Fall, Oscar Keller, Elbert Gary, Charles Forbes, Charles Sawyer, and William Allen White


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Presidential ChroniclesBy David Fisher