1920

The year 1920 was a year of beginnings, beginnings that included me. The truth will out, I'm in my ninetieth year!!

A number of significant events took place that year, as follows:

BASEBALL - Babe Ruth was sold by the Red Sox to the Yankees for $100,000, plus a $385,000 loan. Don't you suppose the Sox always regretted that sale as they watched THE HOUSE THAT RUTH BUILT become baseball's eternally-dominating team?

PROHIBITION - The 18th amendment that moved the liquor industry underground to the "speakeasy movement," and spawned people like Al Capone and his ilk.

VOTING - This was the year that my mother was able to vote for the first time. My parents always voted, no matter the importance of the ballot, and I have followed their example. In their retirement years they were poll-workers, earning what my mother called "pin money."

FOOTBALL - The American Pro Football League (later to become the National Football League), was formed in Canton, Ohio. Can you believe that the entrance fee was $100.00 for each of the twelve teams?

AIR FLIGHTS - The first commercial air flight was from Havana, Cuba, to Key West, Florida. I didn't have a plane ride until I was 34 years old, but in my later years, made up for that with plenty of business traveling.

THE TEST - Herman Rorsacheck invented the inkblot test, a personality and intelligence test interpreted by ink blots, to reveal intellectual and emotional factors. I could have benefited from such testing.

More, later.