Year 1927 Brought Lindbergh Feats and Global Strife
Lindberghs year marked by first America to Europe flight and Mexico City hop plus global disarmament effort failures. Washington treaty efforts faltered as Britain and Japan stayed apart while League of Nations pressed disarmament, amid Franco Italian strains and Polish Lithuanian tensions. US Marines aided Nicaragua unrest and China protection. Domestic prosperity paused by agricultural downturn and Mississippi floods.
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Lindbergh
America
Europe
Mexico City
France
Coolidge
Great Britain
Japan
League of Nations
Preparatory
League Council
Poland
Lithuania
Italy
Nicaragua
China
Mississippi Valley
International tensions mark political year with disarmament talks and regional conflicts
The year saw U S aid to Nicaragua against the Sacasa rebels and the Ocotal battle, evolving U S Mexico diplomacy with Ambassador Morrow, and clashes over Tacna Arica. Disarmament talks in Geneva yielded partial pacts while Britain Russia China tensions escalated and Latvia Lithuania Poland signed tentative peace amid shifting alliances.
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Diaz
Nicaragua
Amercan
Doctor Sacasa
Nicaragua Canal
Kellogg
Chile
Peru
Coolidge
Geneva
Great Britain
Iica
Japan
Russia
League
Britain
Moscow
London
Britain Faces Trade Deficit and Legal Reforms in 1927
The article reviews Britain’s 1927 economy with a January trade deficit of 6 million dollars and a government push in April to overhaul trade union law. It notes debates over peership in the Lords, a June budget aiming to cover a 110 million dollar gap, Irish political shifts, and Canada’s League of Nations role, alongside France Italy Soviet Russia Mexico Chile and China developments shaping world affairs.
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Great Britain
House of Lords
Churchill
Dail Eireann
Ottawa
William Phillips
Dominion
Ontario
Prince Edward Island
France
War Council
Europe
Doumergue
Poincare
Constant
Mussolini
Italy
Duce
Ferdinand Evenly
de Michael
Carol
1928 campaign and aviation milestones highlighted in era review
The year 1927 overview notes prosperity in industry and government reserves, with tax-cut talk sidelined by floods, coal strikes, and political jockeying. It details Coolidge’s noncandidacy, Hoov ers and Lowden as contenders, the New York governor’s bid, and Congress debates on farm relief, taxation, and defense. It also recalls Lindbergh’s Paris flight and a wave of global aviation feats and disasters shaping public imagination.
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United States
Mississippi Valley
Colorado
Coolidge
Black Hills
South Dakota
Frank O. Lowden
Herbert Hoover
Charles Dawes
Charles EB. Hughes
Charles Curtis
Kansas
George Norris
Nebraska
Willis
Ohio
National Committee
Kansas City
San Francisco
al Smith
New York
W. G. McAdoo
James Reed
Missouri
Congress
Senate
Frank L. Smith
W. 8. Ware
Illinois
Magruder
Navy
Naval
Philadelphia
United States Supreme Court
Fall
B. L. Don
Sinclair
W. J. Burns
Seymour Loman
L. C. Andrews
the Treasury
Dr. J M. Doran
Roy A. Haynes
Anti-Saloon League
Wayne B. Wheeler
Philippines Assembly
Islands
Wood
Mr. Coolidge
White House
Boston
Henry L. Stimson
General Wood
The
Philippines
Sacco
Vanzetti
Massachusetts
Supreme Court
Fuller
American Legion
Paris
Belgium
England
Rome
Edward E. Spafford
Legion
San Antonio
Texas
Grand Army of the Republic
Grand Rapids
Mich
BE. L. Hawk
Sacramento
Calif
Denver
Federal Farm Board
Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon
Mississippi
Gulf
Atlantic
St. Lawrence
House Ways and Means
House
Iis
Navy Department
Molokai Island
California
Honolulu
Art Goebel
William Davis
Martin Jensen
Paul Schlutter
W. P. Erwin
A. H. Eichwaldt
Lindbergh
Azores
Lehlee
Brock
New Foundland
Tokyo
Japan
Pacific
Tully and
Medcalf
Canada
Harbor Grace
N. F
London
America
Charles Nungesser
Francois Coli
Newfoundland
Leslie Hamilton
F. Minchin
Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim
Upavon
Ottawa
Ont
1927 Sports Year Brings Record Attendance Across Disciplines
The year saw record attendance in major sports with highlights including Tunney defeating Dempsey for heavyweight boxing in Chicago on September 22, Notre Dame's football win over the University of Lower California on November 26, and Pittsburgh's pennant in the National League. Yankees win the American League, Ban Johnson retires, Barnard succeeds him, and golf stars like Bobby Jones dominate with British Open and other titles.
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Chicago
Gene Tunney
Jack Dempsey
Notre Dame
University of Lower California
Tunney
Pete Latzo
Joe Dundee
Bud Taylor
Tony Canzoneri
Mickey Walker
New Jersey
Tommy Milligan
London
Sammy Mandell
Whipping McGraw
Pittsburgh
New York Yankees
Pirates
Ban B. Johnson
B. 8. Barnard
Cleveland
Bobby Jones
Tommy Armour
Harry Cooper
Bobby Cruickshank
Johnny Farrell
Bob Stein
Seattle
Harry Pressler
Walter Hagen
Miriam Horn
George Duncan
France
Lacoste
Bill Tilden
Tilden
Hunter
Wills
Ryan
Yale
Harvard
University of Illinois
New York
West Point
Wiinels
H. P. Whitney
Hydromel
Handy Mandy
Disasters Strike Nation In Year Of Storms And Floods
The Mississippi Valley floods began in April and became the worst in U.S. history. Central Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico saw vast inundation, hundreds of drownings, and hundreds of thousands made homeless amid hundreds of millions in property losses. Relief efforts spanned government agencies led by Secretary Hoover.
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Mississippi Valley
United States
Illiois
Gulf of Mexico
Hoover
Notable deaths compiled for each month of the year
The obituary list names many prominent figures by month from January to December including Capt M E Trench governor of the Virgin Islands Frank L Stanton poet Arnold Daly actor and Juliet Low founder of Girl Scouts among others. The long roll covers politicians, artists, scientists and business leaders with national and international recognition.
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M. E. Trench
Virgin Islands
Frank L. Stanton
Georgia
Arnold Daly
David R. Francis
St. Louis
Juliet Low
Girl Scouts of America
Carlotta
Mexico
Lyman J. Gage
the Treasury
William EB. Knox
New York
Charles Deering
D. Walcott
Smithsonian Institution
Percy 8. Grant
New York Divine
Oliver Dennett Grover
Elbridge T. Gerry
Georg Brandes
Judson Harmon
Ohio
A. M. Knight
Luke Fildes
le Ray Upton
Nathaniel Butler
Ira Remsen
Harry Pratt Judson
Benjamin Ide Wheeler
Hudson Maxim
Bruce McRae
Anna Eva Fay
Sam Bernard
Col. T. T. Knox
Payne Whitney
J. J. van Alen
Martin Roche
Chicago
Marquess of Lansdowne
Joseph Schneider
Milwaukee
Hugo Osterhaus
Coles Philipps
Jerome K. Jerome
Clara Louise Burnham
Henry Clay Pierce
Keith Preston
John Drew
Henry White
King Ferdinand
Romania
M. EH
Crumpacker
Oregon
G. M. Moulton
Cardinal Czernoch
Hungary
David ©. Cook
Harry Johnston
Walter Travis
F. T. Bowles
Joéln Dillon
Leonard Wood
Philippines
James Oliver Curwood
B. H. Gary
United States Steel Corporation
Ogden Armour_of Chicago
Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler
Zaghlul Pasha
Cardinal Riego Casanova
Spain
Amelia Bingham
Wayne B. Wheeler
Anti-Saloon League
Marcus Loew
Col
C. J. Glidden
Isadora Duncan
Lloyd M. Brett
Baron Ago von Maltzan
United States
Lew Shank
Indianapolis
A. 8. Arrhenius
Austen Peaye
Tennessee
James Tanner
Washington
John Dalzell
Pittsburgh
P. J. Muldoon
Rockford
J. F. Dillon
Federal Radio Commission
Cardinal O'Donnell
Ireland
J. T. Dickman
Davies Warfield
Seaboard Air Line Railway
John Mitchell
J. M. Helm
John Luther Long
Dr. H. ©. Jennings
Methodist Book Concern
James C. Brady
W. K. James
American Wacoset
Way Man
Ionel Bratiano
Rearneaeekabe Balklard
Cardinal Bonzano
Henry W
Herbert 8. Hadley
Washington University
Missouri
J. F. Eee
Disaster Totals Across the Year Highlight Global Tragedies
A year in review lists calamities from a Montreal theater fire killing 77 to floods in New England and Algeria. Other events include West Virginia mine explosions, a Japanese earthquake, and a Mediterranean gas tank blast in Pittsburgh with dozens killed.
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Seventieth Congress
Montreal
Yugo- Slavia
Atlantic Seaboard
England
Wales
Arkansas
West Virginia
Middle
Bradzil
New England
Algeria
Pittsburgh
Great Lakes
Quebec
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Stalin
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Gomez
Figueroa
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Nationalist Party
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Peking
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Long Island
le Bourget Field
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