The year was 1921. America, much like today, was a dynamic and changing place. President Woodrow Wilson, who kept us out of “The War to End All Wars” from 1914 to 1916, had finally led us into and then through that Great War in 1917 and 1918, and the United States contributed both blood and treasure to winning that war. The German threat to Europe was no more – at least for the next decade or so – and a new president was trying to usher in a period that would push America back from a war-time economy to a peace-time economy. Wilson committed to a peaceful transition of power as