Today I learned Lionel Hampton actually helped out strongly with Richard Nixon campaigns in California ~ Lionel! What gives! Also, Wendell Wilkie, the republican candidate against FDR, was once a board member of 20th Century Fox, and also stoutly served as the NAACP's counsel for a while! Once again, huh? I also learned - hopefully for the last time - the Prohibition lasted from 1919 to 1933 ~ although, the 18th Amendment didn't go into effect until January 16, 1920 ... But that Volstead Act passed the previous October-- anyway, I got the dates. But that brings me to the ol' sufferin' for suffrage, cuz in the summer of '20, that's when the gals got it down to throw down for their first election: so what's it gonna be, ladies? Harding/Coolidge? Cox/Roosevelt? Debs/Stedman? Christensen/Hayes? Watkins/Colvin? Ferguson/Hough? Cox/Gilhaus? OK, really it was Warren Gamaliel Harding stompin' on James Middleton Cox (16 million to 9 million).
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