Right during the 1920s. Republican president s, fairly conservative ones, were elected by landslides, 1920, 1924, and 1928. Congress was in 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 now consider to be liberals, former progressives or radicals all on the defensive during the 1920s. The most popular president in the 1920s, Calvin Coolidge, took office in 1923 when harden died of a heart attack and was reelected 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
(Archived document, may contain errors) 24 May 13, 1983 THE "GLOBAL 2000" JUGGERNAUT INTRODUCTION The first days in June will see a major public event by the Global Tomorrow Coalition, a large and well-publicized Washington conference with highly paid speakers such as ex-President Jimmy Carter. This is clearly an attempt to show the muscle of the environmental lobby. It is likely to be politically impressive and effective.
this friday morning, july 8th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs and good friday morning to you from the kennedy space center, i m erica hill. you re looking at a live picture there of launch pad 39a and of course the shuttle atlanta as we prepare to watch and countdown to the final mission for nasa s shuttle program. good to have you with us. chris wragge is in new york. good morning my friend. good morning. the shot looks great. we need a little cooperation from mother nature, right? that s if. the only thing holding us back this morning. that s exactly what we need, a lot of fingers crossed. from nasa s point of view otherwise everything is ready for this morning s scheduled launch. as chris mentioned we re not sure whether or not mother nature will cooperate. bob orr has the latest on the planned launch. good morning. reporter: good morning, erica. atlantis is all systems green there but the weather forecast frankly is very bleak and now it looks very unlikely that