Review of the Events of 1924 Dawes Plan In Effect
Review of 1924 highlights the Dawes plan for German reparations and Europe’s economy, British Labour govt ousted by Conservatives, US election landslide for Coolidge Dawes, global shifts in governments, and the world flight around the world by eight American pilots. It notes political upheavals in France Italy Turkey and Mexico, naval oil reserve scandals, and major philanthropy from Duke and Eastman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
World
Edward W. Pickard
America
China
Spain
Morocco
Mexico
Brazil
Central America
Mars
United States
Japan
Great Britain
Stanley Baldwin
Russia
France
Herriot
Mustapha Kemal
Turkey
Mussoini
Italy
John W. Davis
Charles W. Bryan
Eaiuor LaFoldette
Wheeler
Dawes Plan Shaped European Recovery After WWI
The Dawes plan emerged from the Dawes commission led by General Dawes to assess Germany’s capacity to pay reparations. It received quick endorsements from Germany, Britain, and Belgium, with France delaying approval. Seymour Parker Gilbert became agent general of reparations as the London talks yielded ratification and a large loan offer to Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reparations Commission
Charles G. Dawes
America
Germany
Dawes
Belgium
Italy
Japan
France
Owen PD
Young
San Francisco
London
Ruhr
Reichstag
Europe
Seymour Parker Gilbert
Global party shifts and political upheaval in 1920s year
The year saw Labour in Britain backed by Liberals, Ramsay MacDonald forming a moderate cabinet until the October crisis when the Conservatives won 413 of 615 seats. Baldwin returned as prime minister while Chamberlain became foreign secretary and Churchill the chancellor. France saw Poincare resign and Heriot rising as premier amid budget reforms, and Austria faced a chancellor’s ouster during a railway strike. Several nations changed governments through the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dawes Plain
MacDonald
Great Britain
League of Nations
Japan
Tokyo
League
League Assembly
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Turkey
Mosul
League of Nations Council
Fandaris
Papanastasion
Glucksbourg
Nicolai Lenin
Soviet Russia
Alexis I. Rykov
Lenin
Switzerland
Mustapha Kemal
Ismet Pasha
Fethi Bey
Arabia
Ibn Saud
Hussein
Hedjaz
Mecca
Jeddah
Emir Ali
Germany
Marx
Reichstag
Fascisti
Sig
Matteotti
Mussolini
China
Shanghai
Chekiang
Kiangsu
Wu Pei-fu
Peking
Chang Tso-lin
Manchuria
Chang
Feng Yuhsiang
Tsao Kun
Feng
Tuan Chijul
Atlantic
Rio Do Sul
Brazil
Mexico
Plutarco Calles
Gonzales Cordova
Ecuador
Horacio Vasquez
Santo Domingo
Carlos Solorzano
Nicaragua
Gerardo Machado
Cuba
Honduras
United States
Chile
Alessandri
Senate
Europe
Ramsay MacDonald
House of Commons
Liberal Party
Laborites
Stanley Baldwin
France
Austen Chamberlain
Lord Curzon
Winston Churchill
England
Poincare
Francois- Marsal
Millerand
Edouard Herriot
Gaston Domergue
Austria
Mgr. Seipel
Vienna
Rudolph Ramek
Belgium
Albania
South Africa
Yugoslavia
Finland
Portugal
Greece
Venizelos
Kar
Republicans Nominate Coolidge for Second Term at Cleveland Convention
The 1924 Republican convention opened June 10 with Frank W. Mondell chairing. Coolidge led on the first ballot with 1 065 votes to LaFollette 34 and Johnson 10, Lowden initially named for vice president but replaced by Dawes. Democrats met in New York June 24 to July 10, the longest convention to that date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William G. McAdoo
al Smith
New York
Ku Klux Klan
Committee On Resolutions
League of Nations
Klan
League
McAdoo
Smith
John W. Davis
Davis
Charles W. Bryan
Nebraska
William J
la Follette
Progressive
Federation of Labor
Socialist Party
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
Congress
Coolidge
Solid South
LaFollette
Wisconsin
Miriam Ferguson
Texas
Nellie T. Ross
Wyoming
New York State
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Naval Oil Reserve
Albert B. Fall
Secretary of the Interior
Denby
House
Senate
Tokyo
Santa Monica
Cal
Alaskan Islands
Martin
Japan
China
India
Europe
Iceland
Greenland
Curtis D. Wilbur
California
Wallace
Howard Gore
Mexico
Charles B. Warren
James R. Sheffield
Cyrus Woods
Edgar A. Bancroft
Chicago
Hugh
Gibson
Switzerland
President Coolidge
Permanent Court of International Justice
United States
Navy
Hiram Johnson
Robert M. LaFollette
Cleveland
Frank W. Mondell
Johnson
Frank O. Lowden
Ilinois
Charles Gates Dawes
Labor Record of 1920 Year in United States
The year saw steady gains for workers with no general strike. Wage increases occurred in rail and textile sectors, while the AFL convention in El Paso re elected Samuel Gompers who later died in San Antonio. The Supreme Court upheld jury trials in labor contempt cases, and the 1920s sweep of notable figures from politics, industry and arts appeared in the year’s ledger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New York Central Railway Company
Chicago Teamsters
Federal Board
Textile Workers
Maine
Silk Workers
Paterson
N. J
New York
Chicago
American Federation of Labor
el Paso
Texas
Labor Party
Samuel Gompers
Mexico City
Pan-American Labor Federation
Gompers
San Antonio
Federal Trade Commission
Steel Companies
Middle West
Aluminum Company of America
Organized Labor
Supreme Court of the United States
George Shiras
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 Gaston
Charles B. Lewis
M. Quad
Adolph Seeman
Julia Reinhardt
Bell Telephone Company
Cornelius Cole
California
Ferdinand Peck
Gabriel Faure
Anson Mills
Henry Cabot Lodge
Massachusetts
W. K. Kitchin
North Carolina
Samuel Plantz
Lawrence College
Appleton
Wis
E.S. Montagu
EK. Rica
J. P. Morgan, Sr
A. N. McKay
Salt Lake Tribune
Cardinal Logue
Ireland
Thomas H. Ince
Sir Lee Stack
Warren G. Harding
Fairchild
Secretary of the Treasury
Duke of Beaufort
Giacomo Puccini
Cipriano, Castro
Venezuela
Gene Stratton Porter
W. ©. Brown
New York Central
H. J. Alerding
Fort Wayne
Ind
William ©. Relek
Isaac Friedman
Vienna
Mahlon Pitney
U. S. Supreme Court
August Belmont
Edward Helsing
T. F., Appleby
New Jersey
Martin F. Glynn
Western Newspaper Union
Year of Disasters A Heavy Toll From Quakes and Explosions
A 1924 roundup lists deadly events including the Pekin starch plant explosion 86 killed, Japanese earthquakes, Shanktown coal mine blast 40 dead, Castle Gate Utah mine explosion 175 killed, Amalfi landslide 100 dead, Lorain tornado 150, Sublet Wyoming mine blast 89, Jersey City fires, and other wrecks. The Red Cross remained busy throughout the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Pekin
Japan
India
Colombia
Shanktown
Crosby
Minn
Nixon
N. J
San Jose
Costa Rica
Castle Gate
Utah
Amalfi
Italy
Wheeling
W. Va
South
Bucharest
California
Mississippi
Lorain
Ohio
China
Formosa
Virgin Islands
Sublet
Wyo
Wisconsin
Trenton
Java
Jersey City
Notable deaths of January and February in a necrology list
A year’s necrology lists prominent figures who died in January and February. Names span literature, politics, science, religion, and industry, including Martha Foote Crowe, Woodrow Wilson, Jacques Loeb, Basil Gildersleeve, Nicolai Lenin, and others across the United States and Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Foote Crowe
Baring Gowld
Nathan B. Scott
West Virginia
John Leyland
Alfred Gruenfeld
A. F. Adams
Basil Gildersleeve
Vv. Allen
Nebraska
George Cram Cook
Maurice Francis Egan
Nicolai Lenin
Premnter
Russia
Lee Christmas
W. C. Fox
Ecuador
Grand Duchess
Marie of
Luxemburg
L. 8. McMurtry
Woodrow Wilson
United States
T. 0. Selfridge
William Lightfoot Visscher
Pierce Anderson
Chicago
Jacques Loeb
Vincent de Paul
Gray Nuns of the Sacred Heart
Alexander B. Garrett
Texas
J. EB. Gunn
Mississippi
R. F. Goodman
Wisconsin
H. G. Dupre
Louisiana
T. Meerschaert
Oklahoma
J. L. Slayden
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lee Stack
Sudan
Zagloul Pasha
Ziwar
Britain
Poland
Irish Free State
Interior Department
James B. Duke
Tobacco and Power
North
South Carolina
George Eastman
Eastman Kodak Company
Rochester, N. Y
Foreign Affairs
Industrial and Labor
George Randolph Chester
Lydia Coonley Ward
S&x
J. M. Levy
W. F. Lee
A. H. Smith
Daniel Ridgeway Knight
Gen. P. Danglis
Lopez Gutierrez
F. E B. Baker
G. W. Jack
W. O. Stillman
G. Stanley Hall
Charles F. Murphy
Tammany Hall
EB. L. Norris
Niels Gron
Sir Horace Nugent
H. M. Byllesby
Dean OC. Worcester
Kate Claxton
Mrs. Hubert Work
Secretary of
A. A. Adee
Calvin Coolidge, Jr
Palmer Cox
Ferruccio Busoni
Edward Peple
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