Genoa Deadlock Deepens as France Demands
Russia faces pressure at Genoa with threats to withdraw unless debts are restructured. France and Britain clash over recognition of the soviet government while Japan and others back Paris. Poincare vows Versailles enforcement. Lloyd George warns against Franco-British rift as talks stall amid warnings of a broader conflict.
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Russia
Genoa
France
Lloyd George
Portugal
M. Barthou
Paris
Japan
Belgium
Hungary
Poland
Serbia
Rumania
Czechoslovakia
Great Britain
Germany
Moscow
Wersailles
Lord Northcliffe
Reparations Commission
Poincare
Genoa and Grant Memorial Dominant World News
British leader seeks peace and trade with Soviet Russia while France bears blame for Genoa failure. Keyes accused of German bankers’ influence. Wiedenfeld to Moscow and Krasatn to Berlin as German Russian ties resume. Grant’s 100th birthday honored nationwide as Harding visits Point Pleasant and the Grant memorial nears completion. China teeters toward civil war with Chang and Wu forces, mediators urged, provincial commissioners sent, allied ships deployed.
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Lord George
Europe
Birkenhead
England
Soviet Russia
France
John Maynard Keyes
Paris
Berlin
New York Tribune
Genoa
Germany
Russia
Bernhard Wiedenfeld
Moscow
Leonid Krasatn
Tnless
Hev Shih Chang
China
Chang Tso Lin
Wu Pai-Fei
Peking
Chihli
Chinese
Senate Finance Committee Advances McCumber Bill on Soldiers Bonus
Senator Watson warned passage would be futile due to a likely presidential veto after a Harding discussion. The finance committee began review of a McCumber plan pegged for a $100 million outlay next year versus the house estimate of $800 million. American Legion reps were polled and favored the house bill.
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Watson
House
Harding
Senate Finance Committee
McCumber
Treasury Department
Representatives
American Legion
Aftermath of coal field war trial opens in West Virginia
The 1921 coal field treason trial in Charles Town widens to 9 miners union officials led by Frank Keeney and Frank Mooney with 54 others charged. Separate trials ordered. Blizzard chosen as first defendant amid arrests and venue changes. Harding plans a wage dispute commission, eschewing federal control. Farm Bureau approves temporary merchant marine aid with conditions, amid rate wars with Lamport & Holt.
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West Virginia
Charles Town
W. Va
Frank Keeney
Frank Mooney
District 17
William Blizzard
Logan
American Farm Bureau Federation
Harding
High Seas
Lamport & Holt Line
Great Britain
South America
Lasker
The
Shipping Board
Lamport & Holt
Professor W W Derrick Under Fire Over Tractor Use Fact
Agrimotor cites an attack on Prof W W Derrick of the University of Nebraska animal husbandry department over claims that 75 percent of tractors were not used to produce the 1921 crop. International Harvester data from 300 Nebraska tractor owners show 94.94 percent used tractors, 5.06 percent did not, challenging Derrick's figures.
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W.W. Derrick
Animal Husbandry” Department
The
Agricultural College
Agrimotor
Lsted
Derrick
Wayne Dinsmore
Horse Association of America
University of Nebraska
International Harvester Co
Nebraska
A. C. Seyfarth
Harvester Company
Farmers Give Up Tractors to Horses and Feed Costs
Derrick notes 75 percent did not use their tractors. Questionnaires show average acres 239.28, yearly repair expense 23.30, estimated tractor usage 89.1 years. Investigation by International Harvester Co. followed a Lincoln Nebraska Weekly State Journal report December 7 headlined Farmers Give Up Tractors Cheapness of Horses and Feed Causes Reversion.
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Derrick
Lao
International Harvester Co
State Journal’ of
Lincoln
Nebr
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Daughters of the American Revolution
Mount Vernon
Chauncey M. Depew
General Grant
Stn
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Bar-le-Duc
Pon
Ichael Collins
Irish Free State
Ulster
James Craig
James
Sinn Fenners
Free State
Mullingar
Dail Eireann
Dublin
de Valera
Ulysses S. Grant
Point Pleasant
Washington
Ohio
National Capital
Botanic Gardens
Grant
Coolidge
Weeks
Cantacuzene
Ida Cantacuzene
Jdhesident
Hornaday Cafe
Royal
U. S
Standard Oil CO
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