Got this one buying Donuts and Milk for breakfast.

09' Marianna Islands.

 

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Drats! I got there too late, again.
Is that the actual color? If so, nice toning!!

 

It's a little darker reflective in the middle and a little redder on the perimeter. But pretty close.

 

I grabbed this political token the other day.
Take it as an oxymoron.
Hey @johnmilton anything you can expand on this one?

 

Gee I was hoping to see some donuts

 

Here, here... I second that motion!

 

I wonder if this was for Teddy Roosevelt? The ALA was founded in 1915, so it would be from the 1916 election at the earliest -- but I imagine there were a fair number of people pining for him in subsequent elections, even though he died in 1919.

 

It's from either 1936, 1940 or 1944. I would tend to lean toward 1940 and '44 because that was when FDR was re-elected to his third and fourth terms. I would not be confused by the "again" language. That was common when they were re-electing FDR.

Here are few random FDR buttons with a little history.



FDR was coy about running for the third term. Very few, other than U.S. Grant and in a way Teddy Roosevelt (TR served most of McKinley's second term and was elected to one of his own. He ran on the "Bull Moose" ticket in 1912) had been so open about it. A number of Democrats threw their hats in the ring in 1940, but the FDR people engineered a stampede for him at the national convention.



This one was from 1940. Roosevelt and Republican Wendel Willkie had a "battle of the buttons" year. The Willkie people issued over 900 varieties. The Democrats issued far less. This was one of them.



This one was definitely from 1936 because the NRA Eagle is in the background. The Supreme Court struck it down.



Here is another button from 1940.

And don't tell me people were prudish in 1940.



That button was in response to this one.



And here's one from 1944 when FDR ran for his fourth term.



This is just a small fraction of what I have. These buttons generally sell for $10 or less, but they have become more popular since I started the collection.

 

I know, right?? He did say Donuts, plural. No?
What about the class?

 

Sorry no pics @Randy Abercrombie and @dwhiz
I have been on the maple old fashioned kick lately.

 

Cool Buttons @johnmilton I bought a Warren G Harding button I will try and get photos of before I leave this morning.

 

I don't have any political buttons, but for some reason I do have some railroad related buttons.
I wonder why

 

Cool buttons! Nice little read. I suppose I'll show off mine as well. As they say, 'give me libertarian or give me death!'. That's how the saying goes, right?

 

Got a Warren G Harding
It's still in a flip.
I will get some Photos.

 

The buttons from the 1920 Harding - James Cox race for president are generally scarce to rare. Even that small Harding button cannot be called common.

Here is a Harding and Coolidge jugate. This is a scarce piece which is made more popular by that fact that it shows two presidents.

 

When I was searching this button I had a real hard time finding a match, found a couple that were close but not a match.

 

The big scandal during the Harding years was the Teapot Dome affair. Harding's Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall, leased Navy petroleum reserve land in Teapot Dome area of Wyoming, without competitive bidding, to two private oil companies. Fall got a kickback.

The Democrats in 1924 tired to get some mileage out of the issue, but it won't stick. This is very scarce button which noted that effort. Sorry, but I did the photo on "the quick and dirty" but you can get the idea. "Davis" was John W. Davis who was the Democratic Party candidate for president that year. In 1954, Davis would argue against the Brown vs. the Board of Education case before the Supreme Court.



John W. Davis. His running mate, Charles Bryan, was William Jennings Bryan's brother.

 

It's one of the most common Harding buttons. The Republicans also issued one in blue that was the same design.

Once more, this is a "quick and dirty" picture. I cropped it from the larger collection.