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Todd Schafer
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The 70-year-old Secretary of Labor post became a roadblock to the deportation dreams of both Palmer and j Edgar Hoover. I was wondering why the names would and Palmer never surfaced in the 1920 presidential election, and I think this has a lot to do with it
— Aug 05, 2026 02:48PM
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Todd Schafer
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The last major public speaking event, and the last of his whirlwind Wilson tour was in Pueblo, Colorado.
— Aug 01, 2026 12:34AM
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Todd Schafer
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The lynchings that happened after World war I were absolutely brutal. A woman was hung by her feet burned and the baby was cut out of her stomach and let fall into the ground and the riders stomped the baby to death. Nobody was ever charged
— Jul 28, 2026 08:59AM
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Todd Schafer
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Hanson, the mayor of Seattle, was the face of business as he managed to quell the 1919 riots there that were doing so out of sympathy for the Bolsheviks. Ole Hanson also had ten children, the men named after US Presidents like William Howard Taft Hanson, and Theodore Roosevelt Hanson. Also women were encouraged to go on strike too, so their striking husbands would give up on their strikes.
— Jul 24, 2026 05:20PM
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