George Creel

o Investigative Journalist
o Politician and head of the USCPI (US Committee of Public Info)
Propaganda Organization
Eugene V. Debs
o American Union Leader
o Founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
o Candidate of the Socialist Party
Convicted under Espionage Act of 1917
Bernard Baruch
o American financier
o Advised Wilson and Roosevelt on economic matters
Alice Paul
o American suffragette
o Womens rights activist
o Instrumental in the 19
th
amendment
James M. Cox
o Democratic candidate for election of 1920
A. Mitchell Palmer
o Directed the Palmer Raids
Red Scare; deported anarchists
o Attorney general
John Dewey
o Philosopher
o Worked for education
Working is doing; education for life is a primary goal for the
teacher
John T. Scopes
o Guy who taught in his classes evolution and got anally raped for it; he
was defended by Clarence Darrow who took scopes rape and put it up
Bryans ass
Clarence Darrow
o The guy who defended Scopes ass and raped Bryan in the evolution v
religion debate
Andrew Mellon
o Advocated cutting taxes for the rich
o Although he reduced the debt by 10 million dollars, people argue that
he could have reduced even more by have the taxes a bit higher
instead of hiking it down
Bruce Barton
o Author who wrote The Man Nobody Knows; wrote about business and
how Jesus was a great adsman. Probably a big business man
Henry Ford
o Made the automobile affordable
o The working line, etc.
Frederick Taylor
o Worked with Ford
o Sought to improve industrial efficiency
o Reduce waste in the workplace by analyzing labor processes
Margaret Sanger
o Helped tons of guys get laid by advocating for birth control
(Good Guy) Sigmund Freud
o Also helped tons of guys get laid by saying that women needed to
explore their sexuality otherwise they would get hurt somehow
F. Scott Fitzgerald
o Wrote Great Gatsby and married a bitch
Ernest Hemingway
o Kinda fucked up guy; he wrote about war and unfair propaganda as
well as the overblown appeal to patriotism
Blew his brains out with a shotgun
Sinclair Lewis
o Criticized capitalism and materialism in his novels (Babbit)
William Faulkner
o Dont know what the fuck this guy did but he wrote fictional stories
about Yoknapatawpha; obviously high as hell, but apparently he
peeled back layers of time and consciousness from the constricted
soulds of his ingrown southern characters; maybe reminiscent of
better times? (but this is 1920s so idk)
Charles Evans Hughes
o Republican candidate; lost narrowly to Wilson
o Swing Voter
Albert B. Fall
o SCANDALOUS; Teapot Dome Scandal
Hence the name, Albert Fall
Harry Daugherty
o Attorney General under Harding and Coolidge
o Afflicted by accusations of corruption/ Teapot Dome Scandal
Charles R. Forbes
o Director of the Veterans Bureau
o Took money from the Bureau; scandalous
John W. Davis
o Democratic Nominee against Coolidge
Robert La Follette
o Progressive Reformer
o Anti-trust and anti-LOL
Alfred E. Smith
o Catholic, which destroyed his chance at running as Democratic U.S.
Presidential candidate against HOOVER
Ohio Gang
o Politicians surrounding Harding often involved in Scandals
American Legion
o Veterans aid organization
Kellogg-Briand Pact
o Anti-war, disarmament pact
o Still had war as an ok measure as self-defense
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
o Raised American Tariffs that protected farms
o Promoted foreign trade
Teapot Dome Scandal
o Bribery incident
o Leased oil reserves at a low rate without competitive bidding
Farm Block
o Wtf is this
McNary-Haugen Bill
o Hoped to support agriculture by raising domestic prices of farm
products
Dawes Plan
o US gives to Germany, Germany gives to Europe (France, Britain, etc)
and they give to US. Failed when US crashed in 29
Agricultural Marketing Act
o Was originally supposed to lend money to farmers, but Hoover
decided to be a dick and say no because he didnt want farmers to rely
on the government
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
o Raised Tariffs on imported goods
o Decreased world trade; Europe pissed because they couldnt trade
with America and resolve debt
Muscle Shoals Bill
o Designed to build a muscular dam but Hoover decided to be a dick
again and slap it in the peoples face with a big fat NO
He was afraid that it held communist implications
He didnt want people to buy electricity from the
government instead of other corporations; he didnt
want to allow government to interfere with people
business
Stimson Doctrine
o Response to Japan taking over Manchuria
o Said that US will not consider that area as legitimate
Japan didnt give a fuck