Monday September 26, 1921. Hints of things to come.

 

President Harding called a conference on the topic of unemployment, which convened on this day in 1921.

Herbert Hoover chaired the conference.

There are some obviously ironies associated with this.  For one thing, the US was about to go into a period in which the economy was overheated.  For another, well, Hoover chairing the conference is an obvious one.

He was a natural pick, actually.  A brilliant and wealthy mining engineer, he'd been involved in European relief following World War One and was a noted  humanitarian.

In Sweden, the Social Democratic Party emerged with more seats than they had prior to the election, which caused the Prime Minister to step down in favor of a new one. The election allowed women and those disenfranchised for unpaid debts to vote for the first time.