Locarno Pact and World Peace Dominated 1925 Highlights
Review of 1925 centers on the Locarno treaties and Western Europe’s security promise. Germany’s return to the world stage and potential Soviet alignment are noted, along with Islam resistance in the Rif War and Syria. U S prosperity, tax cuts, and aviation disputes with Mitchell frame domestic issues, including the Shenandoah disaster and a failed nonstop flight to Hawaii.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Europe
Edward W. Pickard
League of Nations
Germany
Family of Nations
Soviet
Russia
Locarno
Austen Chamberlain
Aristide Briand
Hans Luther
Herr Strasemann
Rif
France
Spain
Abd-el-Krim
Syria
Turkey
Mosul
Great Britain
Egypt
China
Peking
United States
Army
Navy
William Mitchell
Department of Aviation
Hawaii
Locarno treaties mark turning point in European diplomacy
The Locarno conference in October brought together France Germany Great Britain Belgium Italy Poland and Czechoslovakia to bind frontiers and promote arbitration. The accords led to a security pact France Germany Belgium promising no aggression and Britain Italy guaranteeing frontier inviolability with disputes to be referred to commissions courts or the League.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Locarno
Briand
Luther
Stresemainn
France
Germany
Belgium
Italy
Poland
Czechoslovakia
London
Permanent Court of International Justice
Council of the League
Cologne
Thhineland
Coolidge
Washington
Europe
League of Nations
League
United States
Geneva
Saoul Dandurand
Canada
Mosul
Turkey
Jeague's Council
Vilayet
Trak
Irak
Britain
Ral
Council of the
Greece
Bulgaria
League Council
Abd-el-Krim
Frehch
RUF
Morocco
Alhucemas Bay
Krimo
Escadrillé
Shanugtal
China
Peking
American Debt Commission
M. Beranger
Maly
Rumania
Wnom
Peru
Chile
Tacna
Arica
General Pershing
Presidential electors meet. Coolidge Dawes elected and inaugurated
The January electors formalized a presidential election with Calvin Coolidge and Charles Gates Dawes declared winners and inaugurated on March 4. Congress passed multiple measures including postal rate hikes and salary increases for lawmakers and cabinet members. Major resignations and appointments reshaped the cabinet, with Hughes retiring and Kellogg succeeding, Weeks resigning and Davis taking War portfolio, and Sargent later approved as attorney general.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Calvin Coolidge
Charles Gates Dawes
Congress
McKenna
Supreme Court
Harlin F. Stone
Charles B. Warren
Michigan
Senate
Warren
Coolidge
Johin G. Sargent
White House
C. Bascom Slemp
Everett Sanders
Indiana
Oolidge
Swampscott
Mass
St. Paul
Minn
Omaha
Nicholas Longworth
Ohio
Rogers
Massachusetts
Kahn
California
Norton
New Jersey
House
Ways and Means Committee
Dawes
Robert M. LaFollette, Jr
Wisconsin
Ladd
North Dakota
Sorlie
Gerald P. Nye
LaFoillette
Britain Returns to Gold Standard Across Empire
In 1925 British politics show Liberal revival under Asquith with Lloyd George's loyalty pledged. Labour splits between radicals and conservatives as Commu nist activity is curbed. Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa move to the gold standard with Canada already on gold, creating near pre war currency footing by mid year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soviet
Russia
Europe
Japan
China
Egypt
Great Britain
Lee Stack
Sudan
Ahmad Mirza
Persia
Paris
Riza Khan
Pahlavi
A. C. Millspaugh
Arabia
Ali
Hedjaz
Ibn Saud
Nye
Ralston
Indiana
A. R. Robinson
Rehala Spencer
Missouri
George H. Williams
New York
al Smith
Ammany
Jimmy” Walker
Hearst
Hylan
Tammany
Walker
F. D. Waterman
William Mitchell
Army
Navy
Air Service
United States
Andrews
the Treasury
Haynes
Dayton
Tenn
William Jennings Bryan
Clarence Darrow
Chicago
Charles Darwin
Scopes
Bryan
Liberal Party
Herbert Asquith
Earl of
Oxford
Lloyd George
Labor Party
Baldwin
Laborites
Communist Party
Glasgow
British Empire
Australia
New Zealand
Union of South Africa
Canada
France
Notable Labor Turmoil and Legal Rulings of the Year
A year marked by a major coal strike that halted anthracite mining on September 1 amid wage demands and union check off debates. Coolidge declined direct intervention while urging Congress to grant executive authority. The AFL met in Atlantic City, rejecting Soviet recognition. The Supreme Court voided compulsory arbitration in a Kansas act and struck down Arizona wage laws for women. International Harvester was cleared of trust charges. Jardine dismissed merger charges for Armour Morris. Price swings on the Chicago Board of Trade led Jardine to push stricter market rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Coolidge
Congress
Arizona
Disastrous year as ships and quakes claim many lives
A year of calamities across the globe and United States. The Shenandoah airship fell in a September storm near Ohio, killing Commander Zachary Lansdowner and 13 crew. The S-51 submarine sank after a Rhode Island collision with 33 aboard. February disasters included a Dortmund mine blast killing 138, a Kansas City pavilion fire, and a Sullivan Indiana mine explosion killing 51. A March China earthquake caused thousands of deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Great Navy
Ohio
Middle West
Zachary. Lansdowner
Navy
Rhode Island
Dortmund
Germany
Kansas City
Sullivan
Ind
China
Noted figures pass in 1928 necrology roundup
A yearly roll of deaths lists Arch bishop Henry Moeller and many notable names by month. Included are artists George Bellows and John Sargent, publishers Norman Bridge and Julius Fleischmann, politicians Marion Burton and Medill McCormick, and world leaders Sun Yat Sen and Curzon among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archishop Henry Moeller
Cincinnati
Thomas W. Lawson
Boston
Cho Bracken
Fred W. Upham
Chicago
M. H. DeYoung
San Francisco Chronicle
Marion Burton
University of Michigan
James Lane Allen
Hjalmar Branting
Sweden
Medill McCormick
U. S
Ilinois
Friedrich Ebert
Germany
William A. Clark
Wu. A. Quayle
Kansas
Sun Yat-Sen
Marquis Curzon
Kedleston
Lord Rawlinson
Indin
Jean de Reszke
Archbishop Christie
Oregon
Einood Traynes
First Automobile
John S. Sargent
Ralph D. Paine
Julius Kruttschnitt
Edmund J. James
M. LakFollette
United States
Wisconsin
I. FF. Ladd
North Dakota
D. W. Tryon
G. W. Williams
Cardinal Begin
Quebec
A. J. Ochsner
William Jennings Bryan
Helen H
Ada Lewis
Leon Bourgeois
Christy Mathewson
James B. Duke
S. M. Ralston
Indiana
Eugene Sandow
Isaac Sherwood
Ohio
Frederick Burgess
Long Island
E. M. Parker
New Hampshire
H. J. Waters
Job Harriman
M. J. Ailes
Washington
Felix Agnus
Baltimore American
P. A. Lannon
Salt Lake City
Khali Dinh
Annam
Eldridge G. Snow
New York
Domicic da Gama
A. J. Earling
C.M
John R. Booth
Harry L. Rogers
F. C. Hicks
Western Newpaper Union
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Herriot
Paul Palnleve
Joseph Calllaux
Callaux
Putnleve
Louis Loucheur
Paul Doumer
Damascus
Lebanon
Reichstag
Hang Luther
Marshal von Hindenburg
German Empire
Sentto Mussolini
Aventine Bloc
Fascismo
Mussolini
Primo de Rivera
Portugal
Toland
Skrymsk
Pangalos
National Assembly
Nejd
Tan
Mecca
Jeddah
Amundsen
North Pole
Spitzbergen
Pole
Latin America
Alessandri
Emiliano Sigueroa
Solarzano
Nicaragua
Barahona
Honduras
Bolivia
Jose Villaneuva
Saavedra
Minois
Tennessee
Alabama
North Carolina
Sturgis
Santa Barbara
Cal
Newport
Corea
Memphis
New Orleans
Florida
Birmingham
Ala
Foreign Affairs
Industrial and Labor
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