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Day 73 Warren Harding

Day 73 Warren Harding. Dear old southland with his dreamy songs Takes me back there where I belong How I would love to be in my mammy's arms When it is sleepy time way down south

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Day 73 Warren Harding

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  1. Day 73 Warren Harding

  2. Dear old southland with his dreamy songs Takes me back there where I belong How I would love to be in my mammy's arms When it is sleepy time way down south Dear old southland with his dreamy songsTake me back there where I belongHow I would love to be in my mammy's armsWhen it is sleepy time down southSleepy time down south Pale moon shining on the fields below Folks are crooning songs soft & low Needn't tell me so because I know It is sleepy time down south Soft winds blowing through the pinewood trees Folks down there like a life of ease When old mammy falls upon her knees It is sleepy time down south Steamboats on the river a coming or a going Splashing the night away Hear those banjos ringing, the people are singing They dance til the break of day, hey

  3. Warren Harding “ America’s present need is not heroic, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; … not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.”

  4. Warren Harding (Pres. #29) • Signs Kellogg Braid Act to eliminate war • Cut taxes for wealthy to promote spending • High Tariffs to recuperate loans from France and GB- Fordney Mccumber makes it so that GB and France can’t sell enough goods • Dawes Plan – Loan to Germany to repay England and France for war

  5. Scandal • Graft in the Cabinet • Ohio Gang- Friends of Harding • Charles Forbes- Illegally sells supplies intended for Veterans • Thomas Miller- caught taking bribes • Teapot Dome Scandal- Albert B. Fall (Secretary of Interior) Takes Naval oil Reserves in Wyoming owned • Charles Evans Hughes goes from secretary of state to Chief Justice • Harding dies of heart attack- VP Calvin Coolidge becomes president

  6. Summary Questions • What was the purpose of the Kellogg- Briand Pact? • Due to what Tariff were Britain and France unable to pay off their war debts? • What was the Dawes Plan? • Who were the Ohio Gang? • Who owned Teapot Dome prior to the scandal? • Who was President Harding's secretary of state?

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