EVB2948823: President Warren Harding and First Lady Florence Kling Harding. March 5, 1923. Her black neckband was adopted by fashionable young women and called a 'flossie cling', a double-entendre: the neckbands were shiny and clung to the neck, as well as it being a play on First Ladys maiden name, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948804: Charles Evans Hughes (center standing) presides at the closing of the Chile-Peruvian conference. July 21, 1922. The two countries were still disputing territory claims from the War of the Pacific (1877-83), which were finally settled in the Treaty of Lima in 1929, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948807: Col. Charles Forbes was appointed as first Director of the Veterans' Bureau by President Harding. Forbes controlled a ,000,000 (6 billion in 2010) yearly budget to aid World War I veterans. His corruption resulted in his Feb. 1923 flight to Britain, and upon his return, imprisonment in 1926, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948813: Coal strike brings hundreds of telegrams to Attorney Gen. Harry Daugherty's (2nd from left) office. 1922. The postwar Red Scare had tainted unions, including the UMW (United Mine Workers), who were unable to defend their members from reduced wages and non-union mines, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948812: Attorney General Harry Daugherty after meeting with new President Calvin Coolidge. White House, Aug. 13, 1923. Seven months later Coolidge asked for his resignation because of allegations of taking bribes and selling pardons. Daugherty was indicted, tried, but acquitted in 1926, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948860: Enduring politician William Jennings Bryan on Dec. 12, 1923. He dedicated the last decade of his life to promoting Prohibition and women's suffrage. He crusaded against Darwinism and the theory of evolution for years before his participation in the 1925 Scopes Trial, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images