Everybody Ought to Be Rich

Samuel Crowther, “Everybody Ought to Be Rich: An Interview with John J. Raskob,” Ladies’ Home Journal (August 1929), 9; 36. Available at https://archive.org/details/sim_ladies-home-journal_1929-08_46_8/page/n9/mode/2up. Being rich is, of course, a comparative […]

Me and My Flapper Daughters

William Oscar Saunders, “Me and My Flapper Daughters,” American magazine (August 1927), 27; 121. Available at https://hdl.handle.net/2027/iau.31858029197666?urlappend=%3Bseq=203%3Bownerid=118316737-207. I am the father of two flappers: trim-legged, scantily dressed, bobbed-haired, hipless, corsetless, […]

Prohibition: Success or Failure?

James P. Holland, “The Workingman’s View of Prohibition,” North American Review, vol. 220, no. 827 (June 1, 1925), 611–614. Available at https://archive.org/details/sim_north-american-review_june-august-1925_221_2/page/610/mode/2up; Samuel Harden Church, “The Paradise of the Ostrich,” […]

Open Address to the U.S. Congress

Carrie Chapman Catt, “Open Address to the U.S. Congress,” November 1917, Archives of Women’s Political Communication, Iowa State University. Available at https://awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu/2017/03/21/address-to-congress-november-1917/. Woman suffrage is inevitable. Suffragists knew it before […]

Our Experiment in National Prohibition: What Progress Has It Made?

Source: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 109 (1923): 30–31, 32–33, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/000271622310900103?journalCode=anna.  … The federal government was created to deal with only those functions which could […]