#1920 Election

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The city's welcome to the Democratic National Convention delegates was inaugurated on June 22, 1924, when 25,000 colored lamps were turned on on Fifth Avenue.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

[deadpresidents]

"Please accept my sincere sympathy."

-- Vice President Thomas R. Marshall, jokingly "congratulating" Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge via telegram upon Coolidge's nomination as Vice President at the 1920 Republican National Convention.

[blackandredblog]

Chasing Shadows: The Illusion of the American Dream

Photo by Pittigrilli on Wikimedia Commons The realization that the country I was raised to love was a lie didn’t happen because of one particular event. It wasn’t even a single string of events. Equality and freedom for all never had and never could exist because of corrupt foundations. The American Dream has remained just that, an ethereal mist blown over a sleeping populace. It was all…

[thepopculturearchivist]

LIFE, August 9, 1928.

For context, Republicans in 1928 were accused of exploiting anti-Catholic bigotry in their campaign against Democratic presidential nominee Alfred E. Smith, and of pandering to Protestant extremism in their continued support for the widely-unpopular national ban on alcoholic beverages. Democrats in much of the country were still bigoted against racial and other minorities, but better was expected of the "Party of Lincoln."

[weirdyearbook]

Source details and larger version.

Here's my gallery of unusual imagery from vintage college yearbooks.

[effluvlia]

Eugene Debs

1920

Runs for President from Atlanta Federal Penitentiary

Socialist Party

914,911 votes

[shrawanij]

"Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" 💠

Oil on paper

Original and prints on sale

Dm for more info 💋

[xzazzletheclownx]

“I voted for Trump” So you hate every woman in your life? So you despise the very woman who held you dearly in her womb for months and the woman that held her? The Virgin Mary hears your proclamation and turns away, not much can make her do that. You claim to not be a fa$cist and you claim to not be a naz! but you have voted for the hand that promises to starve our women.

[princetonarchives]

Princeton University Presidential Straw Poll, October 21, 1920

Harding: 877 Cox: 464 Debs: 9 Watkins: 9 Christiansen: 5 (Source)

[marywoodartdept]

Jacob Lawrence at the Everhart

Abigail, our #arthistory blogger, reflects on Jacob Lawrence’s powerful work, The 1920’s…The Migrants Cast Their Ballots, now on display at the Everhart Museum in #Scranton It’s a timely reminder of the importance of #voting #MarywoodArt #JacobLawrence

At the Everhart Museum in Nay Aug Park, a gallery showcases artworks discussing American politics and the importance of voting. One such artist is Jacob Lawrence, a social realist painter who documented the multitude of struggles that African-Americans had to face in not only gaining freedom but a voice in their countries political future. “Jacob Lawrence grew up in Harlem in the 1930s, where,…

[newyorkthegoldenage]

In the first national election held after the passage of the 19th Amendment, women line up to cast their ballots at 111th Street and Broadway, November 2, 1920.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

[deadpresidents]

Was there any relationship between Calvin Coolidge and FDR? And was Coolidge planning to attend FDR’s inauguration before he died 2 months beforehand in 1933?

Calvin Coolidge was barely interested in his own Presidency, so he probably wasn't making plans to attend FDR's inauguration before he suddenly died in January 1933 (to which the writer Dorothy Parker famously asked, "How can they tell?").

There wasn't really any relationship between Coolidge and FDR. They were the Vice Presidential nominee of their respective parties during the 1920 election, but it's not like today where they debated one another. As far as I can tell, their first and possibly on meeting was in 1919, when Coolidge was Governor of Massachusetts and FDR, as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, was returning from President Wilson's first trip to Europe for the Paris Peace Conference. FDR's tenure as Governor of New York overlapped with President Coolidge's time in the White House by just two months, during the lame duck period before President-elect Hoover's inauguration, so I doubt that they had any meetings during that time. It seems like their paths should have crossed more frequently, but Coolidge's political career was pretty provincial before 1920 and Roosevelt's lengthy struggle with polio largely took place during Coolidge's Vice Presidency and most of his Presidential term. FDR's political comeback didn't really take off until Coolidge had one foot out the door.

[scattergoriesofevil]

Reading dismissive lectures on the internet does not make it any easier for those of us in the US who prefer metric to convince the others to consider it. I’m trained in metric because my background is science, but I live in a world of inches and pounds and cups and gallons (I hate it). Not only do I use both systems fluently, but I convert between them which is just a constant low level irritation.

I still have zero intuitive feel for Celsius and a very wobbly one for meters/kilometers, and I’m keenly aware it’s due to lack of everyday use. Every time someone yells about American use of Fahrenheit on the internet, I just go stare at a wall for a few minutes. It’s not helping. It’s the opposite of helping.

Everything is on fire here in the US. The quality of life for the average person is really not good, and everything that can be burned to fuel outrage and propaganda by the right wing to complete their power grab can and will be. The people who are paid millions of dollars to craft talking points and campaign ads for every idiot in a tie running as a Republican can craft a message that says “The metric system is multiculturalism gone too far! Liberals! France! Communism! The Soviet Union! Our sacred history of inches and miles!” faster than I can write a 5 sentence email. It works, too. They’ve been screaming about their God given right to a gas stove for over a year ever since the government said “Hey this contributes to childhood asthma! We’re really concerned.”

You know what helps? Showing people how awesome and reasonable the metric system is. Demonstrating how much easier it is to use. Telling Americans we are ass backwards over and over again just gets us one step closer to a Republican governor outlawing the use of metric in schools and requiring that the metric side of all rulers be censored with blackout tape.

Do

You

Think

I Am

Joking?

We redesigned how math is taught to little kids in the last decade or so, and that has been fuel for the dumbest shit you can imagine. Everything is fuel for knee-jerk propaganda here right now. As much as our current system sucks, the government has crept it forward quietly over decades and for now that’s all we’re going to get. I genuinely hope we still have a republic by this time next year, and in the meantime, however we are measuring temperature is the least of our fucking problems.

i think if yanks can't even recognise that the only reason they find farenheit intuitive is because they were raised with it, there's basically no chance of being able to get them to analyse all the other, more important implicit biases they've been raised with

[visohyenadraws]

Ya this slogan was real and I love it, would you vote for him? 🦅🇱🇷🗽🔵🫏

[thepopculturearchivist]

LIFE, August 30, 1928

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Labour and Liberal emphasised equality for women in their posters, whole Conservatives offered welfare for mothers and families and dedicated an entire poster campaign to cheaper tea.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory