Briefs From The Nation And Abroad In Early 1920s
Representative Walter W. Magee seeks to shift dry enforcement to the attorney general. Attorney General Daugherty notes enforcement challenges. Navy outlines a unified fleet plan from peace to war. Prohibition chief Haynes seeks 9 million dollars. overall bill lowers 9.25 to 9 million. Senator Simmons named Democratic minority leader. Underwood won't seek reelection. Channel project from Utica to Cairo urged. subsidies debate erupts in Senate. Veterans and drys clash over enforcement funding. Leonard Wood plans to stay as governor general of the Philippines. Penn president to resign soon. New York police crack down on Broadway liquor venues. Chalmers Motor Co bought by Maxwell for about 1.99 million. Shipping Board still holds over 1,000 steel ships and hundreds of wooden ships. Clara Phillips believed to have fled toward Mexico. Senate adopts report seeking action on Armour-Morris merger. Revised credits bill backed by Wallace and Lenroot. Colombia receives first 5 million of 25 million debt payment for Panama Canal work.
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Walter W. Magee
New York
House
Daugherty
United States
Navy
Haynes
House Appropriations Committee
F. M. Simmons
North Carolina
Senate
Underwood
Alabama
Utica
Cairo
Rivers and Harbors Committee
Senate Commerce Committee
Harding
Leonard Wood
Philippines
University of Pennsylvania
Chalmers Motor Company
Detroit
Maxwell Motor Car Company
Shipping Board
Clara Phillips
Hammer Slayer
Los Angeles
México
Secretary of Agriculture
Armour-Morris
Minnesota
Colombia
Panama Canal
Nation’s business notes from treasury and congress
Treasury officials attribute Liberty bond price relapse to money market conditions and industrial demand. October railroad earnings rose from September but lagged last year. Labor issues prompt Railway Executives to drop group activity. Congress considers continued government ownership of Muscle Shoals plant. New York gas firm to sell stock without banks, saving commissions. La Follette calls for agriculture data on Armour Morris merger. Army engineers propose 8 million dollars for New York harbor work. national total 71.5 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury
Congress of Resoluton
Muscle Shoals
Henry Ford
New York Telephone Company
New York Consolidated Gas
Senate
Senator la Follette
Secretary of Agriculture
Armour and Morris
New York Harbor
Army Engineers
Congress
Nation
Georgia Baptists vote to expel for arbitration stance
Georgia Baptists adopt a policy to expel members who refuse to arbitrate industrial disputes via the Golden Rule. The Great Lakes-Tidewater Association opposes a permanent power grant in St. Lawrence hindering the lakes to gulf seaway project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia Baptists
Great Lakes-Tidewater Association
St. Lawrence
United States
Chicago Klan
New York City
Hylan
Enright
Secretary of the Treasury
Melion
Georges Clemenceau
Washington
Wilson
San Ramon, Valley Bank
Ranville
Cal
Oakland
Studebaker
General Pershing
Chicago
Ku Klux Klan
Planters
St. Louis
Southland
Princeton Elects Woops Shively Captain For 1923 Eleven
Multiple sports items note Princeton naming Woops Shively captain for the 1923 football team. Other highlights include Kubale elected Centre College captain, Bartlett named Alabama 1923 quarterback, Army game talks, and various boxing and baseball moves across major leagues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton
Woops
Shively
Mallory
Ban Johnson
Cobb
Siki
New York Boxing Commission
French Boxing Federation
Georges Carpentier
Kubale
Centre
Tom Thorp
Columbia Sleven
Klepper
Portland
Luis Firpo
New York
Garden
Landis
Battlin Siki
Europe
Cable Dispatches
Senegal
George Godfrey
Jack Johnson
Jack Thompson
Jack Dempsey
Pioneer Sporting Club
Charles H
Stumpy) Bartlett
University of Alabama
Bartlett
West Point
Army
Hugo Bezdek
Penn State
Pirates
Philadelphia
State Colege
Phillies
Paris
Carpentier
Foreign Prince Andrew Warned of Death Fate
Prince Andrew recounts warnings from a Greek minister of War about death fate and credits escape to England Pope and the King of Spain. Italy’s official circles describe Germany gearing for war and commercial supremacy, while the U S joins Vatican against Turks threatening 300000 Greeks in Constantinople.
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Prince Andrew
England
Spain
Germany
Italy
United States
Vatican
Constantinople
Ireland
Irish Free State
Lausanne
Bavaria
Britain
France
Montreal
Omar Khayyam
Turkey
Mellon asks gut in surtax rates
The article argues for trimming surtax rates, saying the tax changes would hurt business by creating artificial conditions, while noting some officials call the proposal productive. It discusses impacts on tax exempt issues and urges correction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mellon
Mellon proposes surtax cuts and spending plan
Secretary Mellon’s report urges reducing the maximum income surtax from 50 percent to 25 percent, closing tax loopholes, and avoiding new taxes. It notes a deficit cut to 274 million and predicts a possible next year surplus with strict economy, while recommending tight appropriations of about 3.079 billion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mellon
White Case Is Dismissed In Kansases Industrial Court Case
Kansas court orders dismissal of the case against editor William Allen White. The state case, tied to the railroad shopmen strike and the Kansas Industrial Court law, was slated for trial but an official telegram from Kansas Attorney General Richard J. Hopkins directed Lyon County to enter the dismissal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Topeka
Kan
Richard J. Hophins
Royand Boynton
Lyon County
William Allen
White
Kanass
Clemenceau Visits Wilson in Brief Washington Chat
France’s wartime leader Georges Clemenceau met U S President Woodrow Wilson at his S Street home for about 15 minutes. The leaders described the visit as cordial and like old friends following the Versailles peace treaty.
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Washington
America
France
Versailles
S Street
Wilson
M Clemenceau
Allies demand Germany disarm under Versailles terms
Berlin receives a firm note from the Council of Ambassadors insisting Germany comply with five armament demands from the Versailles treaty. The note accuses Germany of hiding war records and keeping a semi military police. Allies seek conversion of munitions plants, delivery of war materiel, production machinery, documents on munitions, and breaking up police forces.
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Berlin
Germany
Council of Ambassadors
Allied Control Commission
Zweif Abr Zeitung
Vienna
New York Herald
Control Commission
Washington Notes on Fleet Bills Tax Proposals and Politics
Secretary Denby establishes the United States Fleet with Rear Admiral Hilary P. Jones in command. Senate backs a favorable report on the ship subsidy bill while President Harding opposes amendments and shifts. Representative Freer attacks tax enforcement and challenges Secretary Mellon to disclose books. Detroit Mayor James Couzens sworn in after appointment by Michigan Governor Groesbeck. Progressive senators push for merger study and report on agriculture policy. Mellon urges closing gaps that let big incomes escape taxes and seeks a 25 percent top surtax. Borah proposals include toll-free Panama Canal for U S vessels and direct election amendments face opposition. Clemenceau urges flexible American adherence to the treaty amid negotiations with Harding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denby
Hilary P. Jones
Senate
Representative Freer
Wisconsin
House
Mellon
James Couzens
Detroit
Groesbeck
Michigan
Newberry
Progressive Senate Group
Assairs
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Harding
Progressive Bloc
Georges Clemenceau
America
Ing
Borah
Panama Canal
United States
Veesels
Americans oppose forced Greek expulsion from Constantinople
The United States at the Near East conference protests the Turks plan to eject 300,000 Greeks from Constantinople as part of a Graeco Turkish exchange. Washington rejects compulsory population movements unless humanitarian aims are served and no group is singled out.
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Lausanné
United States
Vatican
Constantinople
Grecian
Turkey
Near East
Dardanelles
Mosul
Great Britain
Angola
Golden Rule In Business Guiding Georgia Baptists
Georgia Baptist churches may dismiss members who refuse to settle industrial disputes in harmony with New Testament teachings. The annual convention adopts a resolution insisting the Golden Rule govern business dealings. members must observe it to remain in the church.
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Georgia
Atlanta
Harding Grappels With Progressives on Election Reforms
President Harding signaled opposition to a Progressive plan to change how the President and Vice President are elected and when Congress begins. The Norris resolution seeks a January start for Congress, a noon January presidential inauguration, and direct presidential election without the Electoral College.
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Washington
Harding
Senate
Norris
Congress
Global unrest and political clashes top overseas headlines
Sofia reports assassinations amid a serious uprising triggering martial law in Bulgaria. Constantinople notes ongoing refugee waves to Black Sea ports and a demand for more time. Lausanne records U S backing for Dardanelles freedom as Allies seek measures. London expects a German debt loan and potential Ruhr invasion. Berlin hints at Moltke memoirs about mobilization and neutrality. Atlantic City cites Ku Klux Klan's role in school segregation. Chicago foresees a coal strike and Pershing denounces the Klan, linking it to Herrin and the Communist Party as threats to order.
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Sofia
Kutstendi
Bulgaria
Constantinople
Anatolia
Black Sea
Refet Pasha
Lausanne
United States
Dardanelles
London
Berlin
France
Ruhr
Count von Moltke
Britain
Germany
Atlantic City
Ku Klux Klan
Fiere
Chicago
United Mine Workers of America
Ghicago
General Pershing
Association of Commerce
Herrin Mine
Communist Party of America
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Union
Nation’s Business
Secretary Mellon
Clemenceau
Abd-El-Krim
Thorn
Morocco
Russia
Josie Rogers
Daytona
Florida
Fla
George Marks
Doctor Rogers
White House
New Bloc
World's News
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