April, 1910:Halley's Comet is streaking across the sky. Dr. Cook has called Admiral Perry a lying scoundrel. Mark Twain has died. William Howard Taft is the "reluctant president," and Congress has passed the Mann Act, designed to punish men who take women across state lines for immoral purposes. With the generous assistance of America's foremost millionaires, Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie and Henry Sinclair, a relief mission consisting of ten custom-made,...