August 19: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
ON THIS DAY IN 1920, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “MARION, OHIO — Senator [Warren] Harding declared today that the grant of suffrage to American women would be especially welcome to the Republicans in the coming campaign because ‘a great moral and social reform, recently achieved, is menaced by the covert purpose of our opponents to attack it.’ He predicted that voting women would stand with the Republican party through a realization that it had led in achieving social betterment, while the Democratic party had ‘notoriously refused’ to enforce reform policies. ‘American women,’ said Senator Harding, ‘have won their suffrage fight, which, as an organized continuing movement has covered three-quarters of a century. Their victory is dramatic, because it comes as the reward of a great final drive that now has insured to all American women a full participation in the most crucial national election in many years. Yet, important as are the issues in this political contest, we may well doubt if history will recognize any other phase of it as equal in importance to the fact that in this year the women of America for the first time took their full part in determining the national destinies, and maintaining our nationality.’”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1928, the Eagle reported, “ST. PAUL, AUG. 18 — An epochal event in American transportation will be observed tomorrow when for the first time regular coordinated rail and air service will be inaugurated. The fastest movement of passengers from the Pacific to the Atlantic across the nation ever in regular commercial service will be established. Seattle, Tacoma and Portland on the west, and New York and Washington on the east, will be the extremes geographically benefited by this new service which, however, will be extended to all intermediate points. The air link which is the key in the speed element of this transcontinental service will be between Minneapolis, St. Paul and Chicago. Nowhere in the country today is this rail-air service now coordinated as will be effected in this new service, according to E.E. Nelson, passenger traffic manager of the Northern Pacific Railway. A feature of the service is that an eastbound passenger from the Northwest en route to New York or Washington, for instance, will be able to save an entire business day, and a westbound passenger from New York or Washington and intermediate points will be able to spend a large part of the business day in Chicago en route without loss of time.”
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