Review of 1924 Europe and America in Era of Dawes Plan
A compact survey of 1924 highlights across Europe and the United States. The Dawes plan stabilizes German reparations. Britain endures a Labour government then shifts after Russia tensions. Mussolini’s Italy and fractious France Italy Turkey China and Brazil see upheavals. U.S. election returns Coolidge Dawes victory. stock boom. naval oil scandal and treasurer shifts. around the world flights test endurance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward W. Pickard
Europe
China
Spain
Morocco
Mexico
Brazil
Central America
Mars
Flarmists
United States
Japan
Great Britain
Unt Jt
Stanley Baldwin
Russia
France
Herriot
Mustapha Kemal
Turkey
Mussolini
Italy
Joh W. Davis
Charles W. Bryan
Berar Lafol- Jette
Wheeler
Dawes Plan Sets Stage For European Recovery
In early 1924 the Dawes plan emerged from a Dawes Commission led by Geff Charles G Dawes to assess Germany's payment capacity. The plan gained quick acceptance by Allied powers and Germany, with France delaying briefly. Owen D Young later became fiscal agent as Britain and allies advanced talks culminating in a broader recovery effort.
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Reparations Commission
Geff Charles G. Dawes
America
Germany
Dawes
Belgium
Italy
Japan
France
Owen D. Young
San Francisco
London
Ruhr
Reichstag
Europe
Seymour Parker Giltert
Orld
Global political shifts mark 1920 parliamentary year
Britain’s Labour government led by Ramsay MacDonald faced liberal resistance and failed budgets, while Conservatives won a decisive election in October with Stanley Baldwin returning as prime minister. France saw multiple governments jockey for power, and Austria Germany and other nations adjusted leadership amid strikes and budget reforms.
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MacDonald
Great Britain
League of Nations
Japan
Tokyo
League
League Assembly
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Turkey
Mosul of Fields
League of Nations Council
Lee Stack
Sudan
Zagloul Pasha
Zinar
United States
France
Britain
Poland
Irish Free State
Ingland
Ramsay MacDonald
Soviet Russia
House of Commons
Pariament
Liberal Party
Laborites
Stanley Baldwin
Asisten Chamberlain
Lord Curzon
Winston Churchill
England
Poincare
Germany
Francois- Marsal
Millerand
Edouard Herriot
Gaston Domergue
Austria
Mgr. Seipel
Vienna
Rudolph Ramek
Belgium
Albania
South
Africa
Yugo Slavia
Finland
Portugal
Greece
Venizelos
Kar
Coolidge Nominated at Republican Convention in Cleveland
In a tight four year cycle, President Coolidge secured the GOP nomination on the first ballot at the Cleveland convention with 1065 votes. LaFollette and Johnson trailed, Wisconsin backing LaFollette’s substitute platform. Dawes was named vice president nominee. Democrats met in New York starting June 24 and wrapped up early July 10 in a lengthy convention.
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Sith
William G. McAdoo
al Smith
New York
Ku Klux Klan
Committee On
Revolution
League of Nations
Klan
League
McAdoo
Smith
John VW
Davis
Day
Charles W. Bryan
Nebraska
Wiliam J
Senator la Follette
Progressive
Federation of Labor
Socialist Party
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
LaFollette
Congress
Coolidge
Wisconsin
Miriam Ferguson
Texas
Nellie T. Ross
Wyoming
New York State
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Naval Oil Reserve
Albert B. Fall
Secretary of the Interior
Navy
Denby
Democrata
House
Senate
Tokyo
Santa Monica
Cal
Alaskan Islands
Martin
Erref
Japan
China
India
Europe
Iceland
Greenland
Curtis D. Wilbur
California
Daugherty
Harlan Fiske Stone
W Wallace
Howard Gore
Mexico
Charles B. Warren
James R. Sheffield
Cyrus Woods
Edgar A. Bancroft
Chicago
Hugh S&s. ‘Gibson
Switzerland
Permanent Court of International Justice
League of. F. Nations
United States
Hiram Johnson
Robert M. LaFollette
Cleveland
Frank W.mondell
Johnson
Frank O. Lowden
Illinois
Charles Gates Dawes
Labor Year in Review Highlights High Wages and Strikes
In the United States the year saw generally quiet labor conditions with wage gains across sectors. The New York Central Railway increased pay for 15,000 employees in January, a February strike boosted Chicago teamsters, and several unions followed with advances. The text notes Supreme Court rulings on jury trials in contempt cases and a broader, list-like roster of notable figures connected to labor and politics.
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United States
New York Central Railway Company
Chicago Teamsters
Federal Board
Textile
Maine
SiUk Workers
Paterson
N. J
Garment Workers
New York
Chicago
American Federation of Labor
Il Paso
Texas
Labor Party Movement
Samuel Gompera
Mexico City
Pan-American Labor Federation
Gompers
George Shirss
United States Supreme Court
Joseph Conrad
England
E. Townsend
Michigan
Mary Stuart Cutting
Joseph Jefferson
Richard Green Moulton
LeBaron B. Colt
Rhode Island
Lucy Page Gunston
Charley B. Lewis
M. Quad
Adolph Seeman
Julia Reinharadt
Edward F. Geers
Carlo Resta
Maria T. Daviess
Frank Chanse
Charles Zeublin
W. L. Douglas
Massachusetts
J. W. Schaeberle
James Carruthers
Canada
R. J. Amble
South Tunakota
W. Ft. Greene
C. BE
Sawyer
Harding
Estrada Cabrera
Guatemala
Charlotte Crabtree
Lotta
H. L. Bridgeman
William Price
Warren Garst
W. A. Shanklin
Charles L. Hutchinson
Antole France
FE I Larkin
L. C. Seelye
Smith College
Frank Brandegee
Connecticut
H. H W. Rothsaat
Sir Percy Scott
F. Wight Neumann
H. A. Buchtel
Colorado
John B. Wright
Henry C. Wallaca
Laura Jean Libbey
Lew Dockstader
Percy D. Haughton
Football Authority
Gen. W. B. Haldemah
United Confederate Veterans
James B. Forgan
Edward Bell
W. EK. Lewis
New York Telegraph
T. C. Harbaugh
Nick Carter
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Kal Neilson
T. EK. Cornish
Bell Telephone Company
Cornelius Cole
California
Ferdinand Peck
Gabriel Jaure
Gen
Anson Mills
Henry Cabot Lodge
W. K. Kitchin
North Carolina
Samuel Plantz
Lawrence College
Appleton
Wis
E. 8. Montagu
E. E. Riles
Gene Stratton Porter
W.C Brown
New York Central
H. J. Aletding
Fort
Wayne
Ind
William ©. Reich
Grand See
Aten Pikes
New
Yahlon Pitney
Ormer
U. S. Supreme Part
August Belmont
Edward Holslng
Samuel’ ‘Gompers
T.F. A Appleby
New_ Jer nary
Martin Feiva
Ynn
A Year of Catastrophes Across 1924 Record
A summary of major disasters in 1924 listing explosions fires earthquakes and storms. Notable events include Pekin starch factory explosion 36 dead in January and numerous mine explosions in Shanktown Cros Nixon Castle Gate Wheeling Sublet and Java quakes in November. Collisions and hurricanes also caused heavy loss of life in Japan Costa Rica Italy and the Virgin Islands.
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Hfe
Red Cross
Pekin
Japan
India
Colombia
Shanktown
Cros
Minn
Nixon
N. J
San Jose
Costa Rea
Castle Gate
Utd
Amalfi
Italy
Wheeling
W. Va
South
Bucharest
California
Mississippi
Lorain
Ohio
China
Formosa
Virgin Islands
Sublet
Wyo
Wisconsin
U. S
Trenton
Java
Jersey City
Notable deaths list for January and February
A necrology lists prominent figures claimed by death this year. January entries include Martha Crowe and Rev S Baring Gould among authors educators and clergy with notes on several politicians and cultural figures. February items name Woodrow Wilson and other officials scientists and church leaders.
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Martha Foote Crowe
S. Baring Gould
Nathan .B. Scott
West Virginia
John
Leyland
Alfred Gruenfeld
A. F. Adams
Basil Gildersleeve
W. Y. Allen
Nebraska
George Cram Cook
Maurice Francis Egan
Nicolas Lenin
Russia
Lee Christmas
Fortune
W.C. Fox
Ecuador
Grand Duchess
Marie of
Luxemburg
L. 8. McMurtry
Woodrow Wilson
T. 0. Selfriege
William Lightfoot Visscher
Cief
Pierce Anderson
Jacques
Vincent —de Paul
Gray Nuns of the Sacred Heart
Alexander.b. Garrett
Texas
J.E. Gunn
Mississippi
R. F. Goodman
Jumberman
Wisconsin
G. “Dupre
Soul Loulstang
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Papanastasion
Glucksbourg
Nicolai Lenin
Alexis 1
Rykov
Lenin
Ismet Pasha
Feth Bey
Arabia
Ibn Ssad
Hussein
Hedjaz
Mecca
Jeddah
Finr Ali
Republc
Nagalnat Lasciami
Sig
Matteotti
Miltia
Shanghai
Chekiang
Kiangsu
Wu Pei-fu
Peking
Chang Tso-lin
Manchuria
Chang
Chile
Alessandr
Resin
Interior
Department
James B. Duke
Tobacco
North
South Carolina
George Eastman
Eastman Kodak Company
Rochester
N. Y
Foreign Affairs
Industrial and Labor
George Randolph Chester
Lydia Coonley Ward
IM Levy
W. F. Lee
A. H. Smith
Daniel ‘Ridgeway Knight
Gen. P. Danglis
Lopez Guitierrez
Honduras
F. B. Baker
G. W. Jack
W. C. Stillman
American Humane Assocution
Dean N. C. Ricker
University of Illinois
Newton Fuessle
Barney Barnard
Robert Nivelle
Verdun
T. ©. Mendenhall
James McNally
Charles Stanford
P. A. Baker
Anti-Saloon League
Glen MacDonough
Charles A. Munn
Scientific American
M. A. Smith
Arizona
Hugo Stinnes
Willan Lota Th Hale
Louis Sullivan
FP. X. Leyendecker
Eleonora Close
Starlo Corelli
Lindon
W. Bates
Wart Helfferich
J. Slant Fassett
G. Stanley All
Charles F. Murphy
Tammany Hall
Goy
EK. L. Norris
Niels Gron
Sir Horace Nugell
H. M. Byllesby
Dean C. Worcester
Kate Cluxton
Hubert Work
Kathe Putnam
H. H. Windsor
Popular Mechanics
George Kennan
Baron Constant d'Estournelles
Sir Edward Goschen
Victor Herbert
Aaron Hoffman
Paul Cambon
H. C. Stan
Omaha
K. 8. Bronson
National Editorial Association
Péter Clark Macfarlane
Frank Q. Carpenter
A. A. Adee
Calvin Coollage, Jr
Palmer Cox
Fernuccio Busoni
Edward Pele
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