HY 101 Chapter 32: HY Notes 32
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He was unable to detect corruption in his own staff. He was a very soft guy in that he hated to say no, hurting peoples" feelings. Charles evans hughes was the secretary of state. Andrew w. mellon, pittsburgh"s multimillionaire aluminium king, was the secretary of the treasury. Harding"s brightest and most capable officials (above) were offset by two of the worst: senator albert b. Fall, an anti-conservationist who was the secretary of the interior, and harry m. daugherty, a crook who was the attorney general. Industrialists wanted the government to stop legislating business and to actually help businesses make profits. In the first years of the 1920s, the supreme court struck down progressive legislation. Court ruled in adkins v. children"s hospital (1923) that women did not deserve special protection in the workplace. They said that the 19th amendment made women the legal equals of men. Corporations under president harding could expand without worries of antitrust laws.
