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
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, generally, whether people we consider to be liberals, former progressives or radicals were theon the defensive during 1920s. The most popular president in the 1920s, Calvin Coolidge who took office in 1923, when harding died o
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
The shot a lot of clouds are starting to thicken up across the region and theres reason for that were looking at precipitation already know most of this is a loft and not reaching the ground although ive been watching appear on the Eastern Shore this is been here for a little while to put in motion youll see about the last hour hour and a half. We havent gotten any reports yet up there in southern aca mack of anything reaching the round i would not rule out that theyre one or two very isolated snowflakes but again it is so warm that the ground compared to freezing anyway were in the forties that its hard to get stuff to last and not melt as it comes down toward the earths surface so right now are running double digits below yesterday not much wind out there little bit of a breeze these are the guts to not the sustained winds there are even lower but only gusting into the teens right now. Yet tonight we are really going to get windy all ready by late evening will start to see some wind