EVB2948857: Interstate Commerce Commission in 1921. It was formed in 1887 to regulate railroads, and its authority expanded to cover bridges, terminals, ferries, sleeping cars, express companies and oil pipelines. The Transportation Act of 1921 directed them to consolidate railway properties of the U.S. into a limited number of systems / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948873: Demonstration given by 100,000 people in Detroit against Michigan's anti-Catholic school amendment. Sunday, Oct, 31, 1920. The Amendment would mandate all children in grade one through eight attend public schools, in effect outlawing parochial school. The Catholic Church mobilized their voters and defeated the amendment in 1920 and again in 1924 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2949068: Herbert Hoover with girls and boys at a tent camp during the Great Mississippi River Flood in 1927. The worst effected states were Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Hoover, then Sec. of Commerce, was named by President Coolidge to coordinate flood relief with the American Red Cross / Bridgeman Images
EVB2949081: President Herbert Hoover (seated, center) with the Federal Farm Board, July 12, 1929. Created by the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929, Federal Farm Board would loan money from its million budget, to create and strengthen farm cooperatives to control production and reduce wasteful surpluses. Hoover preferred this voluntary cooperation rather than the government subsidies that many farmers preferred / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948886: President Calvin Coolidge meeting with Charles Evans Hughes and Charles Curtis, August 3, 1923. Coolidge became President the previous day after Warren Harding died suddenly in San Francisco. Hughes was Secretary of State and Curtis was Senate Minority Whip. They met in the Coolidge family residence at the Willard Hotel, Washington D.C / Bridgeman Images