page_title: November 1920
hierarchical_section_title: November 1920
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Gaston Chevrolet, the younger of the Chevrolet brothers.
context_page_description: Dr. Alfredo Zayas was elected President of Cuba, defeating the Liberal candidate, former president José Miguel Gómez.
  On the eve of the U.S. presidential election, the father of candidate Warren G. Harding went to the press to deny rumors that candidate Harding had African-American ancestry. Dr. George Tryon Harding went into downtown Marion, Ohio and angrily confronted Probate Judge William S. Spencer, accusing him of circulating a photo and literature that said that Dr. Harding's father was African-American. Judge Spencer executed an affidavit, denying that he had contributed to the rumor, before Dr. Harding apologized.
  Employees of the Faxton Hospital in Utica, New York, made a desperate search of sewer lines near the serving the institution, hoping to find one milligram of radium that Dr. George Fletcher had applied, in a small vial under a bandage, to a female patient as a means of treating breast cancer". The unidentified patient was irritated by the burning of the radium, went into a bathroom and flushed the vial and its radioactive material, valued at $13,000 at the time, down a toilet.
caption: November 25, 1920: Gaston Chevrolet and other racers killed in crash in last event of season, wins U.S. driving title
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