The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-01-02
High Spots of
the Old Year

treaty reservations.
( Jan. 13.-President Wilson author
ICES the withdrawal Of American
troops from Siberia
Jan. 17-Paul Dechanel elected
president of France.
| Feb. 2.-E. T. Meredith appointed
secretary Of agriculture to succeed
David F. Houston, resigned.
Feb. i4.-Germany reopens embassy
office in London, first since war.
Feb. 20.-Rear Admiral Robert E.
Peary, discoverer of the North Pole.
dies, aged SO.
| Feb. 22.-Rum rebellion in Iron
county. Michigan.
Feb. 25.-Bainbridge Colby appoint
ed secretary of state.
Feb. 27.-Major r. w. Schroeder
breaks altitude record at Dayton, o..
height. S6,O20 feett.
March Railways retured to pri-
waite owners.
March Limited States supreme
court decides U. S. Steel corporation
not trust.
! March 13.-Seven l. w. WIS are
found guilty of murder at Centralia,
Wash
March 19.-Senate refuses to ratify
peace treaty.
| MdACh zU.-Senalof ITuIHdH H.
Newberry (Mich.) found guilty of
election fraud; sentenced to serve two
years in prison.
March 2S.-Tornado in middle west
and south kills 166, 100000 dam
age.
April Five socialist members are
expelled by New York assembly.
| April 1.-THE outlaw SWITCH
mems strike become of national inn
! portance. Fifty thousand men out.
| April 13.-President Wilson appoints
labor board of nine to deal with rail-
way labor disputes.
| April 14.~President Wilson presides
over first cabinet meeting since Sept.
IL, 1919.
April 19.-Sir Auckland Geddes,
British ambassador to the United
States, arrives in New York.
April 25.-Indemnity to be paid by
/ Germany fixed at about S22, 000. 900, 900.
May 3.-Tornado in Oklahoma kills
Sd.
May 13.-Eugene Debs nominated
by socialist party as candidate for
president.
May 21.-Carranza, fugitive presi-
dent of Mexico, assassinated at Tlax-
calamkongo.
! May 24.-Adolfo de la Huerta named
provisional president of Mexico.
| June 12.-Senator Warren G. Hard
| ing of Ohio nominated for president
| by republican convention. Gov. Calvin
Coolidge of Massachusetts nominated
for vice. president.
June 1S.-George w. Perkins, flnan-
cier, dies at Stamford, Conn.
June 1S.-Samuel Gompers elected
president of American Federation OF
Labor for thirty ninth time.
July 6.-James M. Cox of Ohio NOM
mated for president by democrats;
Franklin D. Roosevelt for -presi-
dent.
July 10. - Farmer-Labor party
formed.
July 15.-Four. army airplanes start
on 9.000-mile trip to Nome, Alaska.
from Mineola, Long Island, arriving
at Nome Aug. a.
Aug. 1S.-Tennessee house ratifies
amendment to federal constitution
giving suffrage to women. being the
thirty sixth state to ratify.
Aug. 26.-Secr etary Of State Colby
signs proclamation promulgating the
woman suffrage resolution as nine
teenth amendment to constitution.
sept. 5.-Gen. Alvaro Obregon elect |
ed president Of Mexico.
Sept. 11.-First transcontinental air.
mail reaches San Francisco.
Sept. 16.-President Deschanel of |
France resigns.
SeSpt. 16, = Explosion, believed |
caused by bomb, skaters Wall-st in |
New York. Thirty killed.
Sept. 23.--Alexandre Millerand elect
ed president of France.
Septa. 25.-Jacob II. Schiff, New |
York banker, dies.
Sept. 29.-Frederick w. Galbraith |
Jr., of Cincinnati elected national COM
mander of America Legion.
Oct 16-Strike of British coal min /
ers begins with walkout of million
men.
Oct. 25.--King Alexander of Greece /
dies from monkey bite.
Oct. difference MacSwiney, lord [
mayor of Cork, dies in Brixton prison,
London, after hunger strike of "a days. |
Nov. 2.-Warren G. Harding and |
Calvin Coolidge, republican, nominees |
for president and vice-p president of /
the United States are elected.
Nov. 15.-Assembly of League of |
Nations holds first session at Geneva.
Paul Hymens of Belgium elected pres
ident.
Dec. 1-Gen Alvaro obregon sworn
in as president of Mexico.
Dec. 1S.-Assembly of League of
Nations ends first session at Geneva |
with as countries members.
Dec. 19.-Constantine returns to
Greco as king, chosen by the people. |
Dec. 26.-Italian regulars attack |
Fiume.
Dec. 29.-D'Annunzio accepts Ra
pablo agreement, surrenders Fiume.
Dec 30.-President Wilson vetoes
Clayton act.
Dec. 31-Cardinal Gibbons receives |
last sacraments of church; is critical
ly i'll.