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Warren G. Harding   show
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normalcy   show
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show Democratic nominee for vice-president in 1920 and cousin of Theodore Roosevelt who would later be elected president during the Depression in 1932, for the first of four terms.  
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Andrew Mellon   show
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show Verb created by Warren Harding meaning to speak with gaseous eloquence.  
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Ohio Gang   show
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show Created the Bureau of the Budget and the General Accounting Office.  
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Revenue Act of 1926   show
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show Harding administration scandal in which Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall profited from secret leasing to private oil companies of government oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, and Elk Hills, California.  
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show Secretary of the Interior under President Harding who profited from secret leasing to private oil companies of government oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, and Elk Hills, California that later came to be known as the Teapot Dome scandal.  
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show Conservative Republican who became president in 1923 when Warren G. Harding died of a heart attack and was elected in 1924; Coolidge brought to the White House a clear conviction that the presidency should revert to its Gilded-Age stance of passive defere  
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show Wisconsin reformer who ran as a third-party candidate against Calvin Coolidge in the election of 1924, and with the support of a farmer-laborer coalition, the Socialist party, and the American Federation of Labor, received the largest popular vote ever po  
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show Act of 1926 that started a program of federal aid to air transport and navigation, including aid in establishing airports.  
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show Aviator who in 1927 made the first transatlantic solo flight from New York to Paris in thirty-three hours and thirty minutes, a significant triumph for the infant aviation industry.  
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show Pioneering American aviator who in 1931 became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, but who disappeared on an attempt at a round-the-world flight in 1937.  
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show Secretary of commerce through the Harding-Coolidge years who was elected president in 1928, crowning a career of steady ascent, first in mining, then in public service; Hoover's image combined the benevolence fitting a director of wartime relief and the e  
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associationalism   show
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parity   show
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show A coalition of western Republicans and southern Democrats that put through a program of legislation from 1921 to 1923 to combat the falling crop prices of the early 1920s.  
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McNary-Haugenism   show
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show Name given to the employment policy of using open shops by business groups in Chicago in 1921, which in theory implied only the employer's right to hire anyone but in practice meant discrimination against unionists.  
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yellow-dog contract   show
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show Benefit programs guided by company unions that employers used to sway the unions.  
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show Benefit schemes such as profit-sharing, bonuses, pensions, health programs, recreational activities, and the like used by employers to sway unions.  
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Railway Labor Act   show
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show 1929 walkout at the huge Loray textile mill in Gastonia, North Carolina, that escalated into a prolonged conflict that involved two deaths.  
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show System by which factory owners closed mills, slashed wages, raised production quotas, and operated mills around the clock to combat falling profits.  
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show Union (UTW) that was part of the American Federation of Labor.  
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Alfred E. Smith   show
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff   show
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show To buy stock on meant to make a small down payment (the "margin") and borrow the rest from a broker who held the stock as security against a down market; if the stock declined and the buyer failed to meet a margin call for more money, the broker could sel  
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Hoover blankets   show
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Hoovervilles   show
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show Federal program established in 1932 under President Herbert Hoover to loan money to banks and other institutions to help them avert bankruptcy.  
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show Banking Act of 1933 that established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and included banking reforms, some designed to control speculation. A banking act of the Hoover administration, passed in 1932 and also known as the Glass-Steagall Act, was des  
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show Act of 1932 that created a series of discount banks for home mortgages, as well as provided savings and loan and other mortgage agencies a service much like that the Federal Reserve System provided to commercial banks.  
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Emergency Relief and Construction Act   show
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Bonus Expeditionary Force   show
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show Militant group formed by Iowan farmers which called a farmers' strike and forcibly blocked deliveries of produce in an effort to get government relief for farmers during the 1930s.  
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