Review of the 1924 events in world politics and economics
The 1924 year brought the Dawes plan for German reparations into operation boosting European recovery. Britain’s Labour government fell to Conservatives. Mussolini and Kemal faced liberal pressure. In the U S the Coolidge Dawes ticket won a landslide, sparking a securities boom. The League of Nations faced disarmament debates. Japan opposed due to the immigration clause and Mosul oil disputes persisted. The Irish Free State registered its treaty with the League, provoking British protest.
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Europe
America
China
Spain
Morocco
Mexico
Brazil
Central America
Mars
United States
Japan
Great Britain
Stanley Baldwin
Russia
France
Herriot
Mustapha Kemal
Turkey
Mussolini
Italy
John W. Davis
Charles W. Bryan
Senetor LaFollette
Wheeler
Calvin Coolidge
Charles Gates Dawes
MacDonald
League of Nations
Tokyo
League
League Assembly
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Mosul
League of Nations Council
Lee Stack
Sudan
Zaglon Vasha
Ziwar
Britain
Poland
Irish Free State
England
Dawes Plan Sparks European Recovery Effort
The Dawes plan, crafted by Gen. Dawes and a committee of experts, sought to stabilize Germany’s payments after WWI. France delayed approval. Britain and the Allies moved to implement the scheme with Owen D Young as fiscal agent and Seymour Parker Gilbert later appointed agent general of reparations.
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Reparations Commission
Charles G. Dawes
America
Germany
Dawes
Belgium
Italy
Japan
France
Owen D. Young
San Francisco
London
Ruhr
Grmanreichstag
Europe
Seymour Parker Gilbert
Global political shifts shape 1923 year in review
Britain’s Labour government begins January with MacDonald and faces losses in late 1923. Conservatives win October vote, Baldwin becomes PM by November. France sees multiple government changes and a balanced budget by September. Austria sees Seipel resign, succeeded by Ramek amid rail strikes. Greece forms a Venizelos ministry in January, then Karamanlis rises. Several nations change leadership through the year.
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Great Britain
Ramsay MacDonald
Soviet Russia
MacDonald
House of Commons
Liberal Party
Laborites
Stanley Baldwin
France
Austen Chamberlain
Lord Curzon
Winston Churchill
Austria
Mer. Seipel
Vienna
Rudolph Ramek
Japan
Belgium
Albania
South Africa
Yugoslavia
Finland
Portugal
Greece
Venizelos
Kar
Global political upheavals spanning 1924 events
A compact survey recaps 1924 milestones: collapse of monarchies in Europe, republics established in several nations, Lenin’s death and a new Soviet premier, Turkish caliphate abolition, Kemal ataturk’s rule challenges, Wahabi upheaval in Arabia, German elections and Dawes era shifts, Mussolini’s Fascist consolidation, and civil wars and leadership changes across China and the Americas.
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Lenin
Switzerland
Mustapha Kemal
Ismet Pasha
Fethi Bey
Arabia
Ibn Saud
Hussein
Hedjaz
Mecca
Jeddah
Emir Ali
Germany
Marx
Reichstag
diMcult
Tascist
Sig. Matteotti
Mussolini
National Milittia
China
Shanghai
Cheklung
Kiangsu
Wu Pei-fu
Peking
Chang Tso-lin
Manchuria
Chang
Feng Yulisiang
Tsao Kun
Feng
Tuan Chi- Fui
Atlantic
Rio Do Sul
Brazil
Mexico
Plutarco Calles
Gonzales Cordova
Menador
Horacio Vasquez
Santo Domingo
Carlos Solorzano
Nicaragua
Gerardo Machado
Cuba
Honduras
United States
Chile
Alessandri
Senate
Europe
Republican Coolidge Nominated in Cleveland Convention
The 1924 presidential race sees Coolidge nominated on the first ballot with 1065 votes, La Follette 34, Johnson 10, after a long convention in Cleveland starting June 10. Frank Lowden named for vice president but declines. Dawes takes the spot. Democrats meet in New York June 24 to July 10 in a record longest convention.
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United States
President Coolidge
Hiram Johnson
Robert M. Lalollette
Wisconsin
Cleveland
Frank W. Mondell
Labollette
Coolidge
LaaFollette
Johnson
Frank ©. Lowden
Illinois
Charles Gates Dawes
Chicago
New York
Grayson County Schools to Receive $14,005 State Aid
County School Superintendent G. W. Acton reports the State Department has awarded Grayson County $14,005 in aid this year. The amount will be divided among 31 qualifying schools. The timing of the apportioned funds is not yet advised.
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Grayson County
G. W. Acton
State Department
Mr. Acton
Miriam Ferguson seeks removal of legal disqualifications
Governor elect Miriam A Ferguson petitioned Bell County district court to remove all legal disqualifications from her married status for mercantile and trading purposes so she can negotiate contracts independently. Her husband James E Ferguson joined the petition to support her request.
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Temple
Miriam A. Ferguson
Texas
District Court of
Bell County
James E. Ferguson
Feme
Ice Block Unearthed Near Reno After 40 Years
A freak of nature in Nevada reveals a massive block of ice buried twelve feet underground. The solid slab measures sixty feet long twenty feet wide and ten feet thick and was uncovered near Reno on December 30.
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Reno
Nev
Catarrha Deafness Claims Cure in Catalog Ad
An old advertisement explains catarrh and deafness caused by Eustachian tube inflammation and touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a remedy. It claims the product rid the system of catarrh and deafness and notes 40 years of sales by F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Grove's Tasteless Tonic Promises Vitality and Health
An example advertorial extols Grove's Tasteless Tonic as a blood purifier and strengthener containing iron and quinine. It claims to purify the blood and enrich it, improve appetite, color cheeks, and is kid friendly, with claimed effects against malarial and grip germs.
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Grove
Pepsinated Calomel Promises Quick Gentle Relief
An advertisement touts pepsinated calomel as a mild English remedy combined with pepsin to relieve indigestion biliousness bad colds constipation and sick headaches. It claims fast pleasant action with one small tablet at bedtime and recommends Dyer & Jones of Whitewright Texas.
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Dyer & Jones
Whitewright
Texas
Ice Block Clears Road as Shovel Work Uncovers Hazard
Workmen on the Truckee River highway forced to blast through a thick ice field estimated at forty years old after attempting to bypass it. The ice is believed to have formed from snow on a mountain slope and been driven into place by an avalanche of earth rocks and trees.
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Cardus
Truckee River
Women and Ballots Could Be Used More Widely
A Cleveland Times note suggests women might vote more if they could exchange ballots. The comment reflects contemporary discussions on suffrage and civic participation.
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Cleveland Times
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