THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME OF THE 1920S
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Question
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Calvin Coolidge
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Warren G. Harding
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Woodrow Wilson
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Babe Ruth
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Detailed explanation-1: -The actual quote wasn’t necessarily a simple, catchy line. It wasn’t in a Big Business Speech or an answer to a business related question. It was spoken during an address President Calvin Coolidge gave to the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington, D.C. on January 17, 1925.
Detailed explanation-2: -In January 1925 President Calvin Coolidge-nicknamed “Silent Cal” for his taciturnity-declared, “The chief business of the American people is business.” Is that still true?
Detailed explanation-3: -An apocryphal story has it that a person seated next to him at a dinner said to him, “I made a bet today that I could get more than two words out of you.” He replied, “You lose.” However, on April 22, 1924, Coolidge himself said that the “You lose” quotation never occurred.