American Decades
"No Backward Step in Federal Aid For Road Building Can Be Taken"
Magazine article
By: Simeon D. Fess
Date: 1926
Source: Fess, Simeon D. "No Backward Step in Federal Aid for Road Building Can Be Taken." American Motorist 18, no. 2, February 1926, 12, 38, 40. Reproduced in " American Motorist: Selected Issues from 1926." Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921–1929. American Memory digital primary source collection, Library of Congress. Available online at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/coolhome.html; website homepage: http://memory.loc.gov (accessed May 14, 2003).
About the Author: Simeon Davison Fess (1861–1936) was born in Ohio. Fess attended Ohio Northern University and the University of Chicago, where he studied law and American history. In 1907, Fess assumed the presidency of...
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1920's Business and the Economy Primary Sources
- Women in the Office
- "The Negro Working Woman"
- Twelfth Annual Report of the Secretary of Commerce, 1924
- The Real Estate Boom
- Installment Buying
- Regulating Radio
- "The Shop Chairmen, the Rank and File and the 'Prosanis' Label"
- "No Backward Step in Federal Aid For Road Building Can Be Taken"
- Calvin Coolidge And Nicaragua
- "Open Letter to the Pullman Company"
- "The Present Status and Future Prospects of Chains of Department Stores"
- Federal Farm Policy
- "Hamlin Memorandum and Diary Extracts, Showing Federal Reserve Board Response to 1927 Recession and Stock Market: July 1, 1927–January 4, 1929"
- "A New Era … an Economic Revolution of the Profoundest Character"
- "Brokers and Suckers"
- The Southern Urban Negro as Consumer
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
