Erin ’s Reviews > The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams and Their Clash Over America's Future > Status Update
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There was a real danger to any president appearing in public. William McKinley's assassination was less than 15 years ago and Theodore Roosevelt had been shot during the last presidential campaign.
— Apr 08, 2026 01:07PM
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In 1916 Montana elected the first woman to Congress, 35 year old Jeannette Rankin.
— Apr 10, 2026 05:57AM
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That women could still not vote in New York remained enormously frustrating to Lella Secor, especially when she watched Negroes and half drunk foreigners going into the polls.
— Apr 09, 2026 08:06PM
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By July 1915 more than a thousand were affected by Polio in New York City with 238 dead and the epidemic was just getting started
— Apr 09, 2026 04:20PM
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On January 25, 1915 Woodrow Wilson made the first ever transcontinental telephone call, from Washington to San Francisco
— Apr 09, 2026 03:58PM
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Most whites remained either oblivious of or hostile to the plight of African Americans.
— Apr 09, 2026 02:25PM
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Most powerful men believed that politics, foreign relations, and other worldly affairs were no place for women
— Apr 08, 2026 07:21PM
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Henry Ford was now a celebrity and many on both sides of the political aisle such he should run for president.
— Apr 08, 2026 11:54AM
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In a world without air conditioning, Washington in August was not a desirable place to be.
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The business community supported implementing a draft. One business leader said "It would teach workers how to obey and the necessity of doing what they are told."
— Apr 08, 2026 05:45AM
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Jane Addams believed the only effective weapon against militarism was feminism
— Apr 07, 2026 06:09PM
