Europe and America in 1922 a year of upheaval
A broad survey notes 1922 as a year of strikes in the United States and major political shifts abroad. It highlights Ireland and the Turkish War of Independence, the rise of Mussolini in Italy, the Greek defeat in Asia Minor, and the Lausanne conference. It covers Lloyd George’s fall, the Irish Free State formation, and Britain’s postwar diplomacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward W. Pickard
America
Congress
Republican Party
Irish Free State
Asia Minor
Lausanne
Lloyd George
Italy
United States
Near East
Czechoslovakia
Washington
Harding
Mustapha Kemal Pasha
Constantinople
Anatolia
Smyrna
Athens
Kemal
Great Britain
France
Serbia
Romania
Greece
Dardanelles
Britain
Adrianople
Thrace
Russia
Mudania
Turkey
Switzerland
Child
Grew
Bristol
Mosul
Europe
Mesopotamia
League of Nations
Chile
Peru
Hughes
Colombia
Venezuela
Esthenia
Latvia
Lithuania
Albania
International Treaty Moves and European Recovery in 1922
The Washington conference adopted the five power naval limitation treaty and measures on Pacific fortifications and open door in China. Britain pledged Wei Hai Wei to China, and efforts to revise warfare rules continued. By year end, ratifications reached the US Japan and Britain, while France delayed action, complicating full treaty impact and Europe’s postwar rehabilitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
International Commission
Harding
Senate
Japan
Yap
Great Britain
United States
France
Near East
Europe
Allied Commission
International Bankers’ Committee
Germany
Doctor Wirth
Berlin
Ruhr
Rhineland
Irish Free State Established and Civil War Begins
With Michael Collins at the helm the provisional government of the Irish Free State was formed in January after Dail Eireann accepted the treaty with England and De Valera refused to accede. Republicans soon rebelled, triggering a year of warfare marked by assassinations and outrages as Free State forces gained territory and fighting degenerated into bushwhack warfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Collins
Irish Free State
Dail Eireann
England
de Valera
Free State
Voters shift to progressives in 1924 primary elections
U S voters expressed unrest over high costs and taxes, aiding progressive challengers. Albert Beveridge beat New in Indiana, Lynn Fra zier defeated McCumber in North Dakota, and Johnson and La Follette were renominated in California and Wisconsin, signaling likely Democratic gains in November and a reduced Republican majority. Al Smith’s landslide for New York governor highlighted the era’s political upheaval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Harding
Albert J. Beveridge
Senator New
Indiana
Lynn J. Frazier
McCumber
North Dakota
Johnson
California
la Follette
Wisconsin
House
Senate
DuPont
Kellogg
Townsend
Calder
Pomerone
Poindexter
al Smith
New York
National Legislation Highlights From Congress Year
In 1921 Congress passed the foreign debt refunding bill with a 25 year payment admit. The House approved an anti lynching bill, but Senate filibustered it in December. The cooperative marketing bill was enacted in February. The Soldiers Bonus bill passed March 28 and cleared the Senate August 31 after a Harding veto. The House overrode the veto but the Senate sustained it. Appropriations funded Army Navy for 133000 and 86000 and 17000000 for soldiers hospitals. The tariff revision was signed September 21 granting the President trade rate powers. An extra session opened November 20 to debate ship subsidies, which passed November 29 and merged into the December session. Harding urged strict prohibition enforcement, agricultural credit, transport improvements, and wartime resource drafting. The ship subsidy faced strong Senate opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daugherty
Hand
New York
Supreme Court
John A. Clarke
United States
League of Nations
George H. Sutherland
Utah
Day
Minn
Pitney
Kenesaw M. Landis
Chicago
James H. Wilkerson
Will Hays
Moving Picture
Hubert Work
Charles M. Dawes
General Lord
Illinois
Herrin
Williamson County
Truman H. Newberry
Michigan
Senate
Groesbeck
James Couzens
Detroit
Congress
House
Harding
Army
Navy
Naval appropriation bill passes with 825 million funding
The naval appropriation bill was approved carrying $825,000,000 to be allocated for naval programs and operations. The vote supports expanded capability and readiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naval
National Coal and Rail Strikes Challenge U S Security
Labor battles shook America as coal miners and railway shopmen struck in 1922. President Harding pressed for wage re negotiations and federal intervention. Miners won most demands in the bituminous and anthracite settlements, with federal fuel director appointed as coal shortages lingered. The railway walkout ended after judge ordered restraint and railroads reached separate agreements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Harding
Cincinnati
Conrad E. Spens
Federal
Federal Railway Labor Board
Brotherhood of
Daugherty
Wilkerson
Chicago
Disasters of 1922 Toll and Losses Across the World
A survey recounts major 1922 disasters including a Greek destroyer blast with 50 dead, a Washington theater collapse with 97 killed and 133 injured, Gates Pa mine explosion deaths, the Roma dirigible wreck, Chicago fire losses of eight million, and many more across storms, earthquakes, fires, ship sinkings, and mine blasts worldwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Gates
Roma
Italy
Chicago
St. Anne de Beaupre
Quebec
Mississippi River Valley
Texas
Japan
Monastir
Serbia
Egypt
New York City
Lourdes
France
Swatow
Sulphur Springs
Minnesota
Nitaka
Coquimbo
Jackson
Cal
Falconara Fort
Spangler
Birmingham
Ala
Notable deaths list for January includes Shackleton
A monthly necrology notes notable deaths with entries for January. Sir Ernest Shackleton, the famous Antarctic explorer, is listed alongside Marquis Okunaa of Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Ernest Shackleton
Antarctic
Marquis. Okunaa
Notable Figures Linked Across Months To Public Office And Arts
A sweeping list links statesmen, financiers, artists, scientists, and clergy across the year. Names include Japanese statesman Prince Yamagata, Archbi shop Gauthier, inventor of the gasoline engine George Selden, writer Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey, and many others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince Kalaninanole
Congress
Joseph Oliver
Odd Fellows
United States
J. H. Millard
Nebraska
John T. Kelly
George B. Selden
Arcchbishop
Gauthier
Ottawa
Can
John Kendrick Bangs
Viscount James Bryce
Arthur Nikisch
Elizabeth. Seaman
Nellie Bly
Richard Westacott
Charles
Austria
Cyrus Northrup
University of Minnesota
Frederick Villiers
Gen
von Falkenhayn
Henry M. Shrady
Sir Ross Smith
Adrian C. Anson
Henry V. Esmond
John Foord
Asia Magazine
Mujica
Leopold Mountbatten
King George
Frederick van Rensselaer Dey
Nick Carter
Paul Deschanel
France
Richard Croker
Tammany Hall
John Vance Cheney
Ada Jones
A. J. Gronna
North Dakota
Henry P. Davison
New York
Birmingham Age-Herald
H. J. Wheeler
Current Opinion
J. F. Goucher
Alice Miriam
R. W. Guthrie
Mary N. Murfree
Charles Egbert Craddock
Glenn B. Plumb
Alexander Graham Bell
W. E. Crow
Pennsylvania
Lemuel Padgett
Tennessee
Enver Pasha
Turkey
Addmiral Uriel Sebree
Arthur Griffith
Dail Eireann
John G. Woolley
Lord Northcliffe
Levy Mayer
Chicago
Rollin D. Salisbury
Genevieve Ward
Henry Couden
House of Representatives
Delavan Smith
Indianapolis News
Stephen Smith
American Public Health Association
F. S. Peabody
Arthur Dawson
Nellie Grant Jones
Gen. A. 8. Grant
W. H. Hudson
Theodore A. Belt
San Francisco
Samuel Fallows
Reformed Episcopal Church
Emmet O’neal
Alabama
Leon Bonnat
Enos Mills
Thomas Watson
Georgia
Charles E. Clark
Walker Hill
St. Louis
Marie Lloyd
Jorge Montt
Chile
Isaac Guggenheim
Lyman Abbott
Outlook
Bernard Vaughan
London
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Bonar Law
Paris
Poincare
Allied Supreme Council
Genoa
Brest-Litovsk
Belgium
A. Bonar Law
Laborites
Benito Mussolini
Fascisti
Reds
Facta
Mussolini
Chamber of Deputies
Constantine
George
Prince Andrew
M. Briand
Cannes
M. Poincare
Benedict XV
Sacred College
Rome
Achille Ratti
Milan
Pius XI
Angora
Ottoman Empire
Malta
Abdul Medjid Effendi
Walter Rathenau
Wirth
Wilhelm Cuno
Gabriel Narutowicz
Poland
General Pilsudski
Foreign Affairs
Labor and Industrial
Astoria, Ore
Thomas Nelson Page
Alfred Capus
T. DeWitt Cuvier
Jacob Gimbel
Philadelphia
Milwaukee
J. A. L. Gutierrez
Mary S. Lockwood
Bellamy Storer
Richard K. Fox
Police Gazette
Luke E. Wright
The
Philippines
W. G. Sharp
Frank Bacon
George Bronson Howard
Sidney Sonnino
Henry N. Cary
F. C. Nedringhaus
Missouri
G. H. Scidmore
Tokyo
James R. Mann
W. H. Quine
Cardinal Iglesias
Spain
L. B. Prince
New Mexico
John Wanamaker
Alexander Robertson
Jesse M. Overton
Nashville
Tenn
James O. Davidson
Lord Marcus. Beresford
Col
A. E. Bradley
A. E. FB
Justin
Globe
Clothiers
H. C. Steel
Prop
Sullivan County
Fidelity Loan CO
W. H. Eaton Sherman Building
Sullivan
Hall
BF. J. Cheney &Co
Toledo
Ohio
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