Progress slow during the year in Washington armament talks
A year in review highlights the Washington Conference on Armament Limitation, President Harding and Congress actions, and competing global tensions. It notes treaties with Austria Germany and Hungary, four power pact, China-Japan talks, and domestic issues from unemployment to riots and labor unrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Harding
Congress
Upper Silesia
Germany
Poland
Warsaw
Reseue Council
Anatolia
Greece
France
Great Britain
United States
Austria
Thut
Hungary
America
China
Belgium
Hotland
Portugal
Far East
Hughes
Japan
Pacific
Oriental Republic
Shantung Province
Europe
Briand
Russia
Association of Nations
League of Nations
Year in sports shows giants, blasts, and world action
A sweeping year in sport features the Giants and Yankees winning pennants with the former taking the world series. Boxing saw Dempsey versus Carpentier with a French victory, golf crowned Hutchinson and Hagen, tennis Davis Cup triumphs in New Zealand and Paris, and track and football titles across colleges Led by Illinois and Iowa. A long obituary list recalls many prominent figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Sox
Judge Landis
New York Giants
New York Yankees
Giants
Chicago White Sox
Jock Hutchinson
America
Charles Kivans, Jr
James M. Barnes
Walter Hagen
Jesse Guilford
Jack Dempsey
Georges Carpentier Ofrance
Benny Leonard
Richie Mitchell
Jack Britton
Ted Lewis
England
Pete Terman
Joe Lynch
Davis
Johnston
New Zealand
Tilden
Aris
University of Illinois
Yale
Harvard
University of Iowa
University of Chicago
Princeton
Centre College of Kentucky
Jake Schaefer
Willie Hoppe
League of Nations seeks U S role amid Yap dispute
The article reviews the League of Nations efforts in 1921 including prodding for American participation despite U S withdrawal, protests over Yap, mandates for Turkey and Africa, and a postwar reparations framework that left Germany facing 135 billion gold marks in 1922 and growing economic strain.
Ireland Crisis Moves Toward Dominion Status After Turbulent Year
During the first half of the year guerrilla warfare between British forces in Ireland and Sinn Fein intensified with daily killings and reprisals. De Valera was re elected, Dublin burned, and the Ulster Parliament opened as Britain and Dublin negotiated reforms ending in a dominion status offer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
Sinn
Britain
Harding names cabinet as new administration forms
Early 1921 buildup sees President elect Harding resign his Senate seat January 9 and cancel a costly inauguration. February 19 brings Charles E Hughes as secretary of state with a full cabinet named including Mellon Weeks Daugherty Hays Denby Fall Wallace Hoover and Davis. Inauguration occurs March 4 with Wilson present despite illness. Senate confirms appointments in an extra session ending March 15. General Crowder travels to Cuba on January 1 to assess financial recovery efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harding
Ohio
John W. Weeks
Harry M. Daugherty
Will H. Hays
Navy
Edwin Denby
Interior
Albert B. Fall
Agriculture
Henry C. Wallace
Commerce
Herbert C. Hoover
James J. Davis
Wilson
Senate
End of Wilson Era Highlights 1921 Legislative Battles
The article recounts a flurry of late Wilson presidency actions and 1921 Republican-led measures. It notes vetoes and overrides on the War Finance Corporation, prohibition enforcement funding, army size debates, rail service subsidies, tariff and immigration acts, the Winslow rail guarantee, the soldiers relief bureau, tax and tariff bills, coastwise shipping tolls, and prohibition enforcement steps as Congress adjourned the extra session and prepared for regular sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican Congress
Wilson
War Finance Corporation
Congress
House
Harding
Republican Party
Senate
Germany
Austria
Soldiers’ Relief Bureau
Col. C. R. Forbes
Shipping Board
Labor Struggles Defined by Wage Cuts and Open Shop Drive
In 1920s United States labor history two main tendencies emerged a wage reduction amid postwar normalcy and a push for the open shop. Organized labor opposed both efforts and faced partial victories as railway executives led the campaigns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Notable Deaths Marked the Year 1921 in Obituary List
A ledger of prominent passings across the year 1921 highlights figures such as Dr Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg former German chancellor Ferdinand Schlesinger Wisconsin capitalist James G Scripps publisher Henry Reinhardt art collector and dealer Daniel Barto Illinois University professor Congressman Charles Booker of Missouri Mary Whitney astronomer Cap Streeter John Francis Murphy Governor F H Parkhurst Cardinal Ferrari Luigi Manicelli Prince Kropotkin Barrett Wendell James Gibbons Huneker W F McCombs F J W Skiff Nicholas I of Montenegro and others listed with dates from January to March.
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Annie Louise Cary
Julie Opp
B. B. Wallace
Archbishop Walsh
Dublin
Sydney Fisher
Ernesto Nathan
Rome
Augusta
Victoria
Germany
John Robinson
Dr. W. 8. Brooks
J. A. Sleicher
Leslie’s Weekly
Alf H
Gen. Co. Taylor
Boston Globe
Charles J. Bonaparte
Baltimore
Lady Rando Churchil
John F. Wallace
Douglas Story
Harry Hansver
Br. W. E. Stone
Purdue University
Robert I Barke
Chicago
Charles B. Cory
Edgar Saltus
Enrico Caruso
John C. Jenkins
Wisconsin
Wil Hams
Hook
Kansas
Alexander Block
Samuel P. Colt
King Peter
Serbia
Demetrios Rtualtys
Sir Law Hughes
Canada
Peter Cooper Hewitt
Count von Buelow
Austin Dobson
George P. Wetmore
Rhode Island
Peer Stromme
Sir Ernest Cassel
Engelbert Humperdinck
Peter Grosscup
David Bispham
Willam VI
Waurttemberg
Philander Gase- Knox
Pennsylvania
Ludwig III
Bavaria
W. W. Wotherspoon
U.S. A
Bat” Masterson
Henry Oyen
Dan Hanna
Cleveland
Antoinette Blackwell
Womiin
United States
C. H. Prior
St. Paul
George J. Gould
Lawrence C. Marl
Christina Nilsson
de Casa Miranda
Henry M. Hyndman
CG. W. Whittlesey
Abdul Baha Abbas
Van
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollwegg
Ferdinand Schlesinger
James G. Scripps
Henry Reinhardt
Daniel Barto
University of Illinois
Charles Booker
Missouri
Mary M. Whitney
Vassar
Cap” Streeter
Chicago Lake Front
John Francis Murphy
F. H. Parkhurst
Maine
Cardinal Ferrari
Milan
Luigi Manicelli
Prince Kropotkin
Barrett Wendell
Harvard
James Gibbons Huneker
W. F. McCombs
Field Museum of Chicago
Nicholas I
Montenegro
Major Disasters Worldwide In 1921 Report
The year’s disasters include a 4 million dollar Athens fire on January 24 destroying the business district. Chicago’s Armour grain elevator suffered a 6 million dollar blaze March 19. Tokyo saw a hundred homes burned in March and Manila left 15,000 homeless in April with 4,000 buildings burned in Hakodate Japan. A tornado in the Southern states April 15 killed 100, and eastern Colorado floods June 3 caused many deaths and great property damage. San Antonio flood September 10, and abroad the airship ZR-2 broke apart August 24 near Hull with 46 dead. Oppau Germany nitrate plant explosion September 21 killed about 1,500 and injured thousands.
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Athens
Armour
Chicago
Tokyo
Manila
Hakodate
Japan
Colorado
San Antonio
Tex
United States
Hull
England
Oppav
Germany
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Edward W. Pickard
Sinn Feina
Irish Free State
Pariament
Ulster
Rumania
Council of Ambassadors
Slapsburg
Charles
Switzerland
Zita
Horthy
Budapest
N'Area Batte
Funchal
Madeira
Moscow
Antonov
Ukraine
Petlura
Volga
American Relief Administration
Foreig
Baltic States
Turkey
Lenin
Peter
Belgrade
Alexander
Jugo-Slavia
Paris
Granjo
Carvalho Mesquita
Spain
Morocco
Malabar
India
Mathias Erzberger
Wirth
Hara
Viscount Takahashi
Hirohito
Cuba
Menocal
United States Supreme Court
Landis
Victor Berger
Haywood
Newberry
Michigan
William Howard Taft
Tulsa
Oklo
West Virginia
Leonard Wood
Ole Philippines
Islands
Kansas City
Hanford MacNider
Towa
Legion
Marshal Foch
Diaz
Italy
Admiral Beatty
National Cemetery
Arlington
Charles G. Dawes
National Conference of State Manufacturers’ Associations
Railroad Brotherhoods
Railway Labor Board
Brotherhoods
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Denver
Cage
F. W. Gunsanlis
Bert Leston
Taylor
The
Chicago Tribune
James Cardinal Gibbons
George M. Pullman
Charles Haddon Chambers
John Burroughs
Reparations Commission
League Council
Yap
Council
Mughes
Latvia
Esthenia
Berlin
Duesseldorf
Duisburg
Ruhrort
Doctor Wirth
Supreme Council
Foreign Affairs
General Crowder
Labor and Industrial
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