Eras: 1917–1929

1917–1929

Henry Ford’s Five-Day Week

Source: “Henry Ford’s Five-Day Week,” Literary Digest (April 29, 1922), 8. Available at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015028101460&view=1up&seq=406. Will Henry Ford’s five-day week, with the minimum basic day-wage of $6 unchanged, benefit the Ford

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Defending the Versailles Peace Treaty

Source: Woodrow Wilson, Address at the City Hall Auditorium in Pueblo, September 25, 1919. Available at Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley (eds.), The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/318184. Mr. Chairman

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1917–1929

Opposing the League of Nations

Source: Congressional Record, 66th Congress, 1st Session, 3779–3784. Available at: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-FCIC/pdf/GPO-FCIC.pdf . . . If Europe desires such an alliance or league with a power of this kind, then so

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1917–1929

Memorial Day Address at Arlington National Cemetery

Source: Calvin Coolidge, Memorial Day Address at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/memorial-day-address-arlington -national-cemetery-arlington-virginia.  … Our generation

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