Hoover Victory Dominates 1928 News Record
Edward W. Pickard profiles Herbert Hoover as the dominant figure of 1928 due to his sweeping presidential win and a Latin American goodwill tour. The piece notes Smith’s strong rival position, prosperity despite agri economic strains, and international moves like the Kellogg pact to outlaw war, Germany reparations talks, and U.S. world court reconsiderations. It highlights China Nationalists’ victory ending internal warfare, Hirohito’s coronation, and peaceful shifts in Latin America led by Marines and diplomats in Nicaragua.
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Edward W. Pickard
Herbert Hoover
United States
Hoover
al Smith
New York
Paris
League of Nations
Coolidge
Far East
China
Japan
Hirohito
Latin America
Nicaragua
France
Kellogg
Italy
Borah
Foreign Relations Committee
Rhineland
Germany
Washington
John Bassett Moore
Permanent Court of International Justice
The
World Court
Charles Evans Hughes
Assembly
Council of the
Mussolini
Duce
Grand Council
Romania
Bratiano
Juliu Maniu
Ahmed Zogu
Albania
Scanderbeg II
Russia
International General Electric Company of
Alvaro Obregon
Mexico
Toral
Mother Concepcion
National Assembly
Calles
Emilio Portes Gil
Sandino
Frank McCoy
Diaz
Jose Maria Moncada
Adolfo Benard
International efforts shape Pan American unity and world peace
President Coolidge attends the Pan American conference in Havana to address the delegates. The meeting yields a code of private international law, arbitration for juridical disputes, outlawing aggressive war, and a push toward multilateral peace.
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Coolidge
Havana
Cuba
United States
Charles Evans Hughes
Mexico
Union
Hughes
Pueyrredon
Washington
Nicaragua
America
Bolivia
Paraguay
Gran Chaco
Council of the
League of
Global Powers in 1920s Review Spans Wars Jobs and Elections
A sweeping year in world affairs highlights Britain’s migration schemes and women’s vote advance, France’s stabilizing recovery, Italy’s Fascist consolidation, and Japan, China, and Mexico political shifts. Economic strains, treaties, and daring aviation feats marked a year of upheaval and progress alike.
Hoover Heads G O P Nomination At Kansas City Convention
The 1928 Republican National Convention opened in Kansas City with Herbert Hoover widely favored to win the nomination and Gov. Al Smith seen as Democratic front runner. Frank Lowden and Senator Charles Curtis vied for support, while a McNary Haugen agricultural plank failed to sway delegates. Hoover secured the first ballot victory and Curtis received the vice presidential nod, with Robert Work chosen as chairman of the party.
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Houston
Texas
Smith
Joe Robinson
Arkansas
John J. Raskob
General Motors Corporation
Hoover
Curtis
Robinson
Wilson
Florida
Maryland
New Mexico
North Carolina
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana
Massachusetts
Mississippi
Rhode Island
South Carolina
New York
Franklin Roosevelt
San Pedro
Calif
Central
South America
United States
Congress
Coolidge
Boulder Canyon
California
Senate
Ma. Hoover
Boulder Dam
Wisconsin
John
Eastern
Florence Trumbull
Connecticut
Butler
Pennsylvania
Edmund Gosse
England
Bessie van Vorst
America
Allan Dale
Hideyo Noguchi
W.A. Young
Rocke, Feller Institute
Herschel Jones
Wandeapolis
H. B. Piper
Ports Ore
Edgar Fon
Philadelphia
W. H. Sanborn
St. Paul
William D. Haywood
L W. W
J. R. Bone
Ronto Daily Star
Emelinehurst
Chang Tso-lin
Swinehart
Fortune
Alfred
Howard Railroad
Oregon
H. R. Rathbone
Ilinois
Terry
Field Museum
Cincinnati
Urban Shocker
Lincoln Eyre
Roy K. Mowton
R. F. Outcault
W. N. Bixby
Bal Stilwell
Sir Horace Darwin
C. W. Barron
Wall Street Journal
George Betham
Larry Lemon
Motion Stars
A. F. Seested
Eliza Scidmore
T. C. Chamberlin
University of Chicago
On Harding
Ing
W. A. Oldfield
G. H. Jones
Standard Oil
New Jersey
Thomas F. Ryan
F. F. Fletcher
Baron Jacques
Scheer
Jutland
Henry A. Haugen
Chicago
Lord Tennyson
Ezra Meeker
Alice Longfellow
James A. Patten
Jacob M. Dickinson
Theodore Roberts
Herbert Hoover
al Smith
Kansas City
Frank ©. Lowden
Tillinois
Charles Curtis
Kansas
Lowden
Secretary of the Interior
Robert ¢ Work
Lindergh Carries New Year Tour Into 1936
Col Charles Lindbergh continues his aerial tour into the new year visiting unnamed locales and reporting on flight progress. The veteran aviator aims to boost public interest in aviation amid ongoing demonstrations and educational events.
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Col
Charles Lindergh
Notable Deaths Marked Across Months in Early 20th Century
A necrology lists prominent figures who died from January to May including Loie Fuller dancer Emily Stevens and Dorothy Donnelly actresses Marvin Hughitt railroad builder Thomas Hardy and Vicente Blasco Ibanez novelists journalists and military leaders like Earl Haig and Admiral J M de Robeck. The list continues with businessmen politicians and cultural figures such as Herbert Asquith Eddie Foy James L Ford Nora Bayes Rodman Wanamaker and William Sproul among others.
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Loie Fuller
Hmily Stevens
Dorothy Donnelly
Marvin Hughitt
Thomas Hardy
Vicente Blasco Ibanez
Louis Post
Talcott Williams
Arthur Clarke
F. H. Stead
Earl Haig
J. M. de’ Robeck
G. W
Chauncey M. Depew
J. A. Gallivan
Boston
Martin B
Chicago
Stanley J. Weyman
R. C. Carton
Sims
Dr. & Brown
Ohn A. Dix
New York
B. M. Statler
Floyd Sennett
Archbishop Moray del Rio
Mexico
Peter Wrangel
Wader
T. C. Sweet
Record of 1928 disasters across nations and seas
A retrospect lists major disasters of 1928 including the 2200 deaths in southern Florida from a September tropical storm and heavy losses in Puerto Rico. It notes the Vestris sinking off the Virginia Capes with 11 percent of lives lost and other catastrophes from January to December across oceans, mines, earthquakes, floods, and naval accidents.
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Mississippi
United States
Florida
Antilles
Porto Rico
Vestris
Virginia Capes
Black Sea
West Frankfort
Tenn
Everett
Mass
Hollinger
Timmins
Ont
Santos
Brazil
San Frameisquito
Los Angeles
Italy
Smyrna
Balkans
Greece
Peru
Mather
Penn
Oklahoma
Libog
Stteamer
Kansas
Atlantic
Europe
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Great Britain
Canada
Australia
Dominions
Church of England
Churchill
J. H. Whitley
Capt
B. A. Fitzroy
Metropolitan Police
Lord Byng
George
Prince of Wales
Duke of Gloucester
Africa
Randall Thomas Davidson
Canterbury
Cosmo Lang
York
Earl of Birkenhead
India
Viscount Peel
James McNeill
Irish Free State
New South Wales
Canberra
Hertzog
Poincare
Limoges
Troyes
Ivry
Denier
Caribbean Sea
Oakland
Hawaii
Fiji Islands
Rome
Amelia Earhart
New Foundland
Wales
Art Goebel
Tucker
Collyer
Arizona
Friedrichshafen
Lakehurst
N. J
Italia
Nobile
Arctic
Spitzbergen
Roald Amundsen
Walter Hinchcliffe
Elsie Mackay
Carranza
Mexico City
G T. Courtney
Azores
Hassell and
Cramer
Rockford
Ill
Cochrane
Stockholm
Greenland
Mount Evans
Com. H. ©. MacDonald
Newfoundland
English Channel
Wright Brothers
Orville Wright
Charles Lindbergh
Harmon
International League of Aviators
Aeronautics
Weatern Hewananer Untos
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