Europe Turmoil and Rise of Fascists Mark 1922 Year
A sweeping year in review notes Europe in economic distress with Germany seeking relief from reparations, Italy’s Fascisti rise under Mussolini, Greece defeated in Asia Minor, and Kemal at Ankara. Britain and France pressure for settlement while Turkey’s state forms anew after Lausanne talks. In the US, strikes and tariffs shape politics as workers push back.
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Lloyd George
Fascisti
Italy
Edward W. Pickard
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Congress
Ala Minor
Lausanne
United States
Near East
Czechoslovakia
Washington
Harding
Councl
Genoa
Germeny
Rossin
Brest-Litovek
Russia
Belgium
Mustapha Kemal Pasha
Constantinople
Anatolia
Smyrna
Athens
Asia Minor
Kemal
Great Britain
France
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Serbia
Romania
Greece
Dardanelles
Britain
Adrianople
Thrace
Mudanta
Turkey
Switzerland
Ambassador Child
Grew
Admiral Bristol
Mosul
Mesopotamia
League of Nations
Vaena-Arlea
Chile
Peru
Hughes
Colombia
Venezuela
Esthenia
Latvia
Lithuania
Albania
Laborites
Benito Mussolini
Faeta
Mussolini
Chamber of Deputies
Asia Minore
Constantine
George
Bird
Prince Andrew
M. Briand
Cannes
M. Poincare
Benedict XV
Sacred College
Rome
Achille Ratti
Milan
Pius II
Angora
Ottoman Empire
Malta
Abdul Medjid Effendi
Germany
Walter Rathenau
Berlin
Wirth
Wilhelm Cuno
Gabriel Narutowicz
Poland
Pilsudski
Great Powers Forge Pacific Arms Pact And World Peace Moves
The Washington conference on armaments and Pacific issues produced a naval limitations treaty and a poison gas and submarine ban. Britain pledged Wei Hai Wei to China. treaties aided Chinese liberties and an international warfare rules commission. By year end France lagged, while Britain and Japan ratified pacts. Germany reparations dominated European rehabilitation and moratorium talks.
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Harding
Senate
Japan
Yap
Great Britain
United States
France
Europe
Allied Commission
International Bankers’ Committee
Germany
Kyler
Rhineland
Provisional Trish Free State Formed Under Collins
With Michael Collins at the helm, the provisional government of the Trish Free State began in January after Dail Eireann accepted the treaty with England and De Valera refused to accede. Rebels quickly mobilized as the republicans took action.
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Michael Collins
Trish Free State
Dail Eireann
England
de Valera
Voters Sack Conservative Candidates in Progressive Wave
In the 1920 primary elections across various states the public discontent over taxes rents and living costs helped topple conservative candidates. Albert Beveridge defeated Senior New in Indiana while Lynn J. Frazier beat Senator McCumber in North Dakota and Johnson of California and La Follette of Wisconsin won renomination.
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United States
Harding
Albert J. Beveridge
Senior New
Indiana
Lynn J. Frazier
McCumber
North Ihokota
Johnson
California
la Follette
Wisconsin
Early 1920s Congress Acts and Debates Overview
A summary of initial congressional actions in the early year including the foreign debt refunding bill with a 25 year limit, the Dyer and lynching bill facing Senate filibuster, the cooperative marketing bill, and the soldiers bonus bill. It notes Harding's veto and Senate override efforts, along with army navy appropriations and hospital funding, and the completion of a tariff revision signed September 21 granting the president authority to lower rates.
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House
Congress
Harding
Army
Navy
1921 Decline in Death Rates Across Major Causes
Washington reports 1921 shows the lowest death rate since 1900 with declines in heart disease influenza and pneumonia and tuberculosis. Cancer and other deaths rise while auto accidents and homicides increase, totals for 1921 around 1,271,444 deaths in the U S. and 1 032 000 in the registration area.
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Washington
United States
Census Bureau
Disasters Claim Thousands of Lives in 1922 Summary
A 1922 disaster roundup notes major events across the globe. Greek destroyer blast in January kills 50, Washington theater collapse injures 155, Gates Pa mine explosion leaves 25 dead, Roma airship crash kills 34, Chicago fire losses reach $8,000, British submarine sinks with 22 dead, St Anne de Beaupre fire, April floods and Japan quake, Monastir munition explosion kills hundreds, P and O new Egypt collision losses, Paraguayan excursion steamer explosion with 67 dead, New York storm kills about 50, Lourdes pilgrims train wreck, Swa tow typhoon kills 50, Sulphur Springs wreck kills 87, Minnesota fires destroy small towns.
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Italy
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God
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Mississippi River Valley
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Monastir
Serbia
New Egypt
New York City
Lourdes
France
Swatow
Sulphur Springs
Minnesota
Fig Pickers Platform Aims for Quick Harvest
A geover proposes a three wheeled platform to reach figs efficiently, enabling rapid fig collection as described in a scientific journal. The device targets faster harvest and broader fruit access for growers.
Halls Catarrh Medicine Ad Claims Quick Local Relief
An advertisement describes Halls Catarrh Medicine as a two part remedy with an ointment for quick local relief and an internal tonic that acts through the blood on mucous surfaces to fight catarrh. It notes the product has been sold by F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo for over 40 years.
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Cincinnati
Conrad E. Spens
Federal
Federal Railway Labor Board
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Brotherhood
Daugherty
Wilkerson
Chicago
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
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