Talks about the Motion Picture industry and the codes that sought to tamp down on sexuality in films. He addresses the scopes trial in which a Tennessee High School teacher faces charges of unlawfully teaches evolution in a statefunded school. Now in my last lecture and in our debate on monday, which i think went pretty well, you might have been left with a question in your minds, what was the legacy of world war i for American Society . Now the politics of the United States definitely veered to the right during the 1920s. Republican president s fairly conservative ones were elected by land slides in 1920, 1924, 1928. Congress was under control of the republicans throughout the 1920s. With support of congress, republican president s signed bills which rolled back the income tax increases passed during world war i. Leading social movements on the left, labor unions and socialist party both lost members during the war. The socialist party was never a factor in american politics again aft
Bills which rolled back the income tax increases that were passed during world war i. And the leading social movements on the left, labor unions and the socialist party, both lost members during the war. In fact, the socialist party was never really a factor in american politics again after the 1920 election. And people on the left, whether people we consider to be liberals, former progressives or radicals were all on the offensive during the 1920s. The most popular president in the 1920s, Calvin Coolidge who took office in 1923, when harding died of a heart attack and then was reelected by a landslide in 1924 famously said in the mid1920s, the business of america is business. It was a prosperous time for a lot of americans, though certainly not all. Stock prices were fairly high. Wages were either stable or going up, depending on what occupation you were in. Farmers are not doing as well as theyve done during world war i when farm prices went really high as they often do in wars but n
Now in my last lecture and in our debate on monday, which i think went pretty well, you might have been left with a question in your minds, what was the legacy of world war i for American Society . Now the politics of the United States definitely veered to the right during the 1920s. Republican president s fairly conservative ones were electedly landslides, 1920, 1924, and 1928. Congress was under the control of the republicans throughout the 1920s. With support of congress, republican president s signed bills which rolled back the income tax increases that were passed during world war i. And the leading social movements on the left, labor unions and the socialist party, both lost members during the war. In fact, the socialist party was never really a factor in american politics again after the 1920 election. And people on the left, whether people we consider to be liberals, former progressives or radicals were all on the offensive during the 1920s. The most popular president in the 19
In the evening is when dc fire and ems crews responded to the scene. I also want you to take a look just beyond the smoke there at the door, and very top part of the building there, what youre seeing, look at that soot that is completely staying right where the smoke and flames were shooting upwards. Lets take you now to video that dc fire and ems shots when they were here on scene to also very impressive, scary. Let you know this is an underground transformer fire. Very big flames here. Theres a lot of, from what i understand be those transformers have a lot of oil in them. Thats what burns so much, when you perhaps have a corroded wire. That sparked that flame. There wasnt much dc fire could do until pepco fire got here on scene. It says about 12 56 is when they finally arrived on the scene to almost an hour past before the power was cut off before dc fire could get in there and put the flame retardant and get the fire out. We still had the smoking going on for hour upon hour after t
She was not hurt. Seeing scenes across this area today. We had a deluge. Mike beautiful day. No matter how little the water is you do not want to drive through it. Mike people can slide easily. Traffic was moving along. We have had water all day today. Let me show you what it looks like on radar. Rig storm system swirling in. Strong winds. The rain going on out there and we had some reports of trees down. Here are the damage reports. Mostly scattered things but the tree limb falling on a power line and some of you lost power today. What about these wind gusts . 57 mile an hour wind gusts. A lot of wins over 45 Miles Per Hour today. It has been a breezy one. And we still have this wind advisory in till where winds could gust to 50 miles an hour. The strongest near the coast all day. There is the rain right now. We are starting to wind down a little bit. The showers are pushing away north of portsmouth. Boston a rain shower going on right now. Down towards the cape, some pretty good down