Month: May 2020
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Penrose as Potential President Maker in Chicago
A week before the 1920 Republican convention, an article suggested Pennsylvania Sen. Boies Penrose could decide the party’s presidential nominee. As it turns out, he kind of did. Heretofore the Old Guard has had more than one man capable of playing this part behind the scenes, with the loyalty of the ingrained partisan who in…
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Population Centre Moving East, Cities Lead
Several questions about U.S. population trends loomed over the 1920 Census. Here they were, along with their ultimate answers. Are we entering on a new period in which our proportionate increase in population will be less than in the past? Yes. The growth rate between 1910 and 1920 was +14.9%, the lowest on record up…
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From Sorceress to Saint
In May 1920, Joan of Arc was declared a saint by the Catholic Church, almost 500 years after being burned at the stake for heresy. After claiming she heard voices telling her to liberate France from English rule, she helped lead French forces as a teenager. Pro-English clergy captured her, found her guilty of heresy,…
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Gov. Frazier’s Own Story of the Non Partisan League
The first U.S. state governor ever to lose their seat in a recall election? 1921: Lynn Frazier, a socialist who led North Dakota. Frazier was affiliated with the Non-Partisan League (NPL) faction of the Republican Party, a socialist faction which only emerged in 1915 but won Frazier the 1916 election. At the time, North Dakota…
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‘Dark Horses’ in the Coming Presidential Campaign
A month out, who were the dark horses for the Republican and Democratic nominations of 1920? According to this article, here were some potential surprise candidates to keep an eye on… and how each of their fortunes turned out. Republicans Pennsylvania Senator Philander C. Knox. Never officially receiving any votes for the nomination, Knox was…
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Who’s Who Among Nominees for the Hall of Fame
Of 1920’s seven inductees into NYC’s Hall of Fame for Great Americans, probably only two would be considered household names today: Mark Twain and Patrick Henry. That year’s honorees feature many names that would stump a modern audience, even a well-educated one. This 2018 New York Times article quoted Cultural Landscape Foundation executive director Charles A. Birnbaum: The…
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