Fordney Tariff Battle Defeats Oil Duty in House
In Washington on July 19 the House voted 187 to 79 to strike crude oil from the Fordney tariff bill and return it to the free list. President Harding opposed any oil duty, urging the executive to guard against retaliatory tariffs and to consider protection only by executive action if needed.
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Washington
House
Harding
Fordney
Ways and Means Committee
Yordney
U.S
Means
Representative Treadway
Massachusetts
Arrest of Good Fellows organizer in string of charges
Sioux City Iowa July arrest of H K Hansen secretary of the National Organization of Good Fellows of America on fraud charges. Allegedly used nails to defraud and secured 62,500 from 25 cent membership fees from an estimated 250 000 people nationwide. Hanson Ben credited as founder, with claims of manufacturing twines and beers.
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Sioux City
H. &K. Hanpen
National Organization
Good Fellows
America
Hansén
United States
Facture
Alge Twines
Beers
Han- Ben Cwas
Wilson urges Britain to fund war debt in 1920 letter
A 1920 Wilson letter to Lloyd George, read into the Congressional Record by Senator Lodge, rejects debt cancellation and urges Britain to fund the debt to the United States. The note says the US stance unchanged and hints at treasury steps if unpaid interest remains. It stresses funding would strengthen US-UK friendship.
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Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Lloyd George
Great Britain
United States
Senator Lodge
Massachusetts
Wilson
America
Veterans Rebuke Harvey at Rainbow Division Convention
Delegates at the Rainbow Division Veterans association, meeting here, adopted resolutions condemning Colonel Harvey the U S ambassador to Great Britain for saying the war was fought for self interest. They also condemned the eighteenth amendment and called for a revolution declaring it was adopted.
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Cleveland
London
Harvey
Great Britain
United. States
Veterans’ Association
United ‘States
Senate Recommits McCumber Bill After Turbulent Debate
Washington July 16 Acting on a request from President Harding the Senate recommitted the McCumber bill to the Finance Committee by a 47 to 20 vote amid a four hour debate. A clash between Senators Reed and McCumber nearly led to a physical confrontation, with insults exchanged and calls of settling it outside. The roll showed 49 Republicans and 8 Democrats for recommittal and 29 against, with Walsh of Massachusetts condemning the move as a humiliating spectacle.
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Washington
Harding
Senate
McCumber
North Dakota
Robinson
Arkansas
Reed
Missouri
Senator McCumber
Europe
United States
Desis
McCain
Sterling
Wadsworth
Warren
Watson
Indiana
Weller
Arid
Willis
Dial
Glass
King
Myers
Simmons
Swanson
Underwood
Williams
Bursum
Capper
Elkins
Harreld
Jones
Ladd
la Follette
Norris
Sutherland
Ash
Dem
Mass
Walsh
Renee Eee Cee Titride Punist Trades Unions
The fragment references a person and unions in a trades context with unclear details. This sparse text offers no concrete event, date, or organization to identify or summarize a full news item.
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Renee
British Made Plea to Cancel All War Debts
A 1920 Lloyd George letter to Wilson urging cancellation of inter allied debts was presented to the U S Senate finance committee along with a British treasury cable. The letters stress France Germany reparations and Britain’s stance that any write down must be universal and equitable.
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Washington
Lloyd George
Wilson
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
R. C. Linsay
Leffingwell
Treasury Department
Wadsworth
la Follette
Rep
Wisconsin
France
Germany
Great Britain
United States
Américas
United ‘States “of America
Two Killed in Belfast Riot Amid Military Silence
In Belfast violence spread through York Street and North Queen Street as police and troops intervened. A curfew halted the riot but reinforcements were considered. two people were killed and 30 to 40 wounded, with mobs looting pubs.
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Belfast
Ireland
North Queen Street
York Street
London
Lloyd George
Eamonn
Valera
Irish’ Republic
Downing
Sion -Fein
Refugees Flee Russia as Famine Spreads to Major Cities
Reports from Russian emigrants in Berlin and Riga say over 20 million people flee central Russia toward Petrograd and Moscow due to famine and drought. Refugees move east toward Turkestan and Siberia while Moscow appeals for aid and the famine is blamed on a national calamity.
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Berlin
Riga
Russia
Petrograd
Moscow
Turkestan
Siberia
Kuban
Letvia
Iszvestia
Astrakhan
Tsaritsyn
Saratov
Samara
Simbursk
Ufa
Vitalia
Volga
Tartar Republic
Shuvash
U. S
George Tchitcherin
Baltic States
Joseph I. France
Maryland
M. Techitcherin
America
Maxim Gorky
Tikhon
Washington Seizures Move To Enforce Liquor Prohibition
Shipments of intoxicating liquors entering sea or land ports without a prohibition permit face seizure by customs officers under orders effective after July 15. The ruling, issued by Attorney General Daugherty, enforces the prohibition law and targets violators.
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Washington
United States
Daugherty
Goeneey
Various World News Items From Early 20th Century Dispatches
A chaotic spread of brief items reports Emma Jorby killed by lightning in Wisconsin, Adolfo Ballivian presenting credentials to President Harding, Fordney tariff debate with 15 percent ad valorem duty, Crimea claiming autonomous soviet status with Simferopol as capital, and Willis-Campbell anti beer bill setback in the Senate. Other notes mention a Washington tariff vote tally, a July Chicago railroad conference, a fatal air mail crash near San Francisco, andRotarians crossing the Simplon pass with multiple alpine fatalities. Additional items cite a London dispatch on the Mullah death, I W W outbursts in South Dakota, and a murder trial sentences in Germany.
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Emma
Jorby
Sities Javille
Wis
Adolfo Ballivian
Bolivia
Harding
Washington
Crimea
Moscow
Simferopol
Willis-Campbell
Senate
Viscount James Bryce
United States
Bryce
New York
England
Tom Gibbons
St. Paul
Georges Carp
Henry C. Elliott
Somaliland
Abyssinia
Mississippi
John E. Benson
Chicago
Howard Smith
Air Mail
San Francisco
Reno
A. J. Armstrong
Simplon Pass
Swiss Alps
Geneva
Schaefflein
Bern
Switzerland
Alps
Iti
Protestant Episcopal Church
Dittmar
Boldt
Llandovery Castle
Leipzig
United States Answers Reservations on Disarmament Talks
Washington on July 16 informed Japan of its ideas on the scope of the disarmament conference. The move aims to satisfy Japan's wish to know how far Eastern affairs will be discussed. Details are not yet disclosed, but the communication provides material for the Japanese foreign office to study the proposal.
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Washington
United States
Japan
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Oriental Institute
Megiden
Tames H. Breasted
University of Chicago
Palestine
Thutmose
Britain
Rainbow
United
Helen Barrett ‘Montgomery
American Baptist Foreign Mission Society
Des Moines
Iowa
Ulster
Tokyo
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