New York closed out the war, fourteen months after the Armistice, with a parade for the last six hundred American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) troops to come home . . . The Cook County Jail in Chicago made two hundred prisoners view the hanging of a desperado so that they would learn to behave themselves . . . A "Rum Rebellion" in Michigan was put down without bloodshed . . . For the first time in five months, President Wilson was well enough to go for an automobile ride . . . The House decided that Prohibition was enforceable and voted $1,500,000 to enforce it . . . The Senate again voted down Mr. Wilson's Treaty of Versailles . . . A movement to wear overalls to bring down high clothing prices spread over the nation from the South . . . Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., and Rachel Littleton were married and the bride counted a million dollars' worth of gifts . . . A Dartmouth College boy killed another student in an argument over whiskey . . . The Prohibition Party nominated William Jennings Bryan for President . . . Ray Chapman, Cleveland shortstop, was killed by a pitched ball . . . A man in the Polo Grounds dropped dead from excitement as Babe Ruth hit his forty-third homer of the season.
John D. Rockefeller gave $63,763,357 to charity and brought his total benefactions to $475,000,000 . . . President-elect Harding went fishing to relax himself for the ardors ahead . . . Georges Carpentier knocked out Battling Levinsky . . . Jack Dempsey stood trial as a draft evader and beat it . . . John and Lionel Barrymore appeared on Broadway together in The Jest and then John did his first Shakespearean role in Richard III . . . Chaplin made The Kid with Jackie Coogan . . . Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon won the Pulitzer Prize for drama . . . The Hatfield-McCoy feud in Kentucky produced several deaths . . . Man O'War ran a mile and a quarter in 2:03 for a purse of $75,000 and a gold cup . . . Mrs. Harding and Mrs. Wilson had tea at the White House . . . Franklin Delano Roosevelt ran for vice-president against Calvin Coolidge and went down in the Harding landslide . . . Harry S. Truman was a civilian
again . . . Henry Ford established the Dearborn Independent, America's leading anti-Semitic journal . . . The best-sellers in fiction were Zane Grey's The Man of the Forest and Peter B. Kyne's Kindred of the Dust, but there were some other books moving too: Sinclair Lewis' Main Street, F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise, Sherwood Anderson's Poor White and Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence. In non-fiction, John Maynard Keynes' The Economic Consequences of the Peace was near the top of the list, but H.G. Wells' The Outline of History would sell very strongly right through 1924 . . .
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H.L. Mencken didn't like all the back-slapping in the business community. "The first Rotarian," said the Sage of Baltimore, "was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack" . . . George White paid George Gershwin fifty dollars a week to write tunes for the Scandals of 1920 . . . Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, and Georges Carpentier went before the Hollywood cameras. The pay is high, the product low . . . The Ku Klux Klan came back--with a large distaste for Negroes, Catholics, Jews, and the foreigners in the big cities . . . A jury in Hammond, Indiana, acquitted a man who killed an alien for saying "To hell with the United States."
In Massachusetts, there was an incident that would reverberate around the world for seven years and write a sorry chapter into our history. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were charged with shooting down two guards during a payroll holdup in Braintree. The nation paid no attention. Sacco and Vanzetti were just two more Anarchists hauled into the net--for an alleged murder rather than a political misdeed.
New York closed out the war, fourteen months after the Armistice, with a parade for the last six hundred American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) troops to come home . . . The Cook County Jail in Chicago made two hundred prisoners view the hanging of a desperado so that they would learn to behave themselves . . . A "Rum Rebellion" in Michigan was put down without bloodshed . . . For the first time in five months, President Wilson was well enough to go for an automobile ride . . . The House decided that Prohibition was enforceable and voted $1,500,000 to enforce it . . . The Senate again voted down Mr. Wilson's Treaty of Versailles . . . A movement to wear overalls to bring down high 
clothing prices spread over the nation from the South . . . Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., and Rachel Littleton were married and the bride counted a million dollars' worth of gifts . . . A Dartmouth College boy killed another student in an argument over whiskey . . . The Prohibition Party nominated William Jennings Bryan for President . . . Ray Chapman, Cleveland shortstop, was killed by a pitched ball . . . 
A man in the Polo Grounds dropped dead from excitement as Babe Ruth hit his forty-third homer of the season.
Jack Dempsey stood trial as a draft evader and beat it . . . John and Lionel Barrymore appeared on Broadway together in The Jest and then John did his first Shakespearean role in Richard III . . . Chaplin made The Kid with Jackie Coogan . . . Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon won the Pulitzer Prize for drama . . . The Hatfield-McCoy feud in Kentucky produced several deaths . . . Man O'War ran a mile and a quarter in 2:03 for a purse of $75,000 and a gold cup . . . Mrs. Harding and Mrs. Wilson had tea at the White House . . . Franklin Delano Roosevelt ran for vice-president against Calvin Coolidge and went down in the Harding landslide . . . Harry S. Truman was a civilian
again . . .
Henry Ford established the Dearborn Independent, America's leading anti-Semitic journal . . . The best-sellers in fiction were Zane Grey's The Man of the Forest and Peter B. Kyne's Kindred of the Dust, but there were some other books moving too: Sinclair Lewis' Main Street, F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise, Sherwood Anderson's Poor White and Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence. In non-fiction, John Maynard Keynes' The Economic Consequences of the Peace was near the top of the list, but H.G. Wells' The Outline of History would sell very strongly right through 1924 . . .
H.L. Mencken didn't like all the back-slapping in the business community. "The first Rotarian," said the Sage of Baltimore, "was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack" . . . George White paid George Gershwin fifty dollars a week to write tunes for the Scandals of 1920 . . . Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, and Georges Carpentier went before the Hollywood cameras. The pay is high, the product low . . . The Ku Klux Klan came back--with a large distaste for Negroes, Catholics, Jews, and the foreigners in the big cities . . . A jury in Hammond, Indiana, acquitted a man who killed an alien for saying "To hell with the United States."
In Massachusetts, there was an incident that would reverberate around the world for seven years and write a sorry chapter into our history. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were charged with shooting down two guards during a payroll holdup in Braintree. The nation paid no attention. Sacco and Vanzetti were just two more Anarchists hauled into the net--for an alleged murder rather than a political misdeed.