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| The 29th President, he promised a return of the nation to "normalcy" after WWI. |
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| "Adkins vs. Children's Hospital" |
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| A Supreme Court opinion that federal minimum wage legislation for women was an unconstitutional infringement of liberty of contract. |
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| Esch-Cummins Transportation Act |
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| A federal law that returned railroads to private operation after World War I, with much regulation. |
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| Merchant Marine Act of 1920 |
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| A federal statute that requires that all goods transported by water between U.S. ports be carried in U.S.-flag ships, to support the US maritime industry. |
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| A scandal in which Charles R Forbes scammed the government for millions of dollars by defrauding wounded WWI veterans. |
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| A treaty signed by the US, GB, France and Japan on 13 December 1921 in which all parties agreed to maintain the status quo in the Pacific, by respecting the Pacific holdings of the other countries signing the agreement. |
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| Five-Power Naval Treaty of 1922 |
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| A treaty which limited the naval armaments of its five signatories: the US, GB, Japan, France and Italy. |
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| A treaty affirming the sovereignty and territorial integrity of China as per the Open Door Policy. |
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| A pact renounced aggressive war, prohibiting the use of war as "an instrument of national policy" except in matters of self-defense, signed by several major powers. |
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| A scandal in which Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leased Navy petroleum reserves to private oil companies, without competitive bidding, at low rates. |
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| The 30th president, he restored public confidence in the White House after the scandals of his predecessor's administration, and left office with considerable popularity. He was a proponent of laissez-faire economics. |
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| An attempt following World War I for the Triple Entente to collect war reparations debt from Germany. |
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| The 31st President who believed in the Efficiency Movement which advocated that government inefficiency could be solved by experts. He was President during the Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression, which led to his loss of the next election. |
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| Agricultural Marketing Act |
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| Established the Federal Farm Board with a revolving fund of half a billion dollars. The original act was sponsored by Hoover in an attempt to stop the downward spiral of crop prices by seeking to buy, sell and store agricultural surpluses or by generously lending money to farm organizations. |
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