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In 1928 …
President: Calvin Coolidge
Vice President: Charles G. Dawes
Population: 120,509,000
Federal spending: $2.96 billion
Consumer Price Index: 17.1
Unemployment: 4.2%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.02
• The Jones-White Merchant Marine Act passed by Congress
(May 22) provides funds to help make the U.S. commercial
shipping industry more competitive in the world.
• Former Chicago city council member Oscar DePriest is
elected to the 71st U.S. Congress (Nov. 6). He is the
first black Representative to be elected in a northern
state.
• U.S. voters elect Herbert Hoover president (Nov. 6)
over Alfred E. Smith, governor of New York.
• Kellogg-Briand Pact, outlawing war, is signed in Paris
by 65 nations.
• Richard E. Byrd starts an expedition to Antarctic;
returns in 1930.
• The first of Joseph Stalin's Five Year Plans imposes
collectivization on agriculture in the Soviet Union.
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Things turn out best for those who make the best of the
way things turn out.
- Jack Buck
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
The only difference between a flower and a weed is......Judgement
- Anonymous
Bad is never good until worse happens.
- Danish proverb
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
- Seneca, 4 B.C.
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