Nadene Goldfoot
One hundred years ago, John Calvin Coolidge was just starting his 6 year presidency as our 30th president. He was a Republican from Massachusetts. Vice Pres. was Charles Gates Dawes. My mother would be 10 years old on June 29th and my father would be 15 on July 1st.
Electricity in 1923: The '20s may have been roaring for well-heeled urban centers, but on the farm? Rural electricity in the 1920s was as rare as Google Fiber is today. Which makes these 1922 predictions for the farm of the future so brazen. Last week, you may have seen this awesome 1921 map from the Star Tribune archives. It shows which states in the U.S. had the most household users of electricity, with places like New York and Illinois visually swollen to represent their large (newly electrified) urban populations.
the age of radio, “government will be a living thing to its citizens instead of an abstract and unseen force.”
People could have record players:
In 1895, the first record player was mass produced. It was incredibly popular until the introduction of radio. While the introduction of radio didn’t exactly make the record player obsolete, it did take away the spotlight for a period of several years.
Women's One Piece swimming suits began to be worn.
In 1923 Nazi party activists led a revolt and tried to seize power in Munich,Germany but failed. Hitler was imprisoned, during which time he wrote his venomous book Mein Kampf (My Struggle), in which he expressed his ideas about racial theory and Nazi global dominion. In the book, a mix of personal experience and political ideology, he outlined his strategy. A bestseller after he became chancellor in 1933, it had by 1945 sold 12 million copies and been translated into 18 languages. Hitler realized that he must employ legitimate democratic means in his struggle to seize power. However, he and his associates left no doubt about their belief in democratic freedoms as mere tools with which power might be attained. After his release Hitler reorganized the party.
By the time the immigration from Eastern Europe halted in 1924 in the USA, through the government decision, Portland, Oregon Jews worked mostly as merchants and storekeepers or in family networks. Although Portland Jews faced discriminatory practices in country clubs and certain residential areas, for the most part acceptance came easily. Following World War II, as shifts in economic mobility provided more occupational choices, Jews gained access to the middle class and positions in the non-Jewish world in professions such as doctors, lawyers, and upper level managers.
 Betty Scholem on Anti-Semitism in Berlin (November 20, 1923) In the crisis-ridden years after World War I, anti-Semitic attacks were carried out in many cities in Germany. During the period of hyperinflation, some of these attacks escalated into pogrom-like riots. Violence erupted, for example, in Beuthen (Upper Silesia) in October 1923 and in the Scheunenviertel district of Berlin, which was inhabited mainly by Eastern European Jews, in November 1923. The rioting in the Scheunenviertel was triggered by rumors that Eastern European Jews had deliberately bought up the emergency currency being issued by the city as unemployment assistance, with the result that it could no longer be paid out. Thousands of the unemployed entered the quarter, rioting, beating up local residents and passers-by, and looting shops and apartments. One of the charges leveled against the police was that they intervened too late. |
1923 in Palestine:
- 15 May – Britain recognizes Transjordan as an independent government, although it still remains part of the British Mandate of Palestine.
- 16–20 June – Sixth Palestine Arab Congress held in Jaffa.
- 26 September – The British Mandate for Palestine, a legal instrument for the administration of Palestine, confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations on 24 July 1922, comes into effect.
Series of Tornadoes strike Iowa and Nebraska killing 20.
Electric Sewing Machine
Price: $78.95The electric sewing machine shown here is identical to a pedal machine sold the same year except the electric motor is included at a cost of about $35.00, the better Sewing machines were well made of mahogany.
United States - Meyer vs. Nebraska
1. The United States Supreme Court decides the case of Meyer vs. the State of Nebraska during June of 1923. 2. In 1919 , the state of Nebraska passed the Siman Act which restricted the use of foreign languages and the study of foreign languages in schools, it was largely a reaction to anti-German sentiment following World War I. 3. Educator Robert T. Meyer was prosecuted under the act for teaching German in a Lutheran school. 4. His defense argued that the law violated the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment in that it restricted an individual’s liberty. 5. The Court sided with Meyer in a 7 to 2 decision, stating that the state’s law was unconstitutional.
The Republic of Turkey was created on October 29th After World War I, the Allies and Ottoman Empire agreed to the Treaty of Sevres in 1920. The Turkish National Movement was angered by the terms of the first treaty which created partitions and gave territory to the Allies. The Turkish War of Independence began but ended in July with the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne. The treaty dissolved the Ottoman Empire and created new borders for the country. In October, the Republic of Turkey was established under the first president Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and the capital was moved to Ankara.
1923's Year In History including Major World Events include Mount Etna eruption, Great Kanto earthquake that devastated Tokyo and Yokohama, Insulin being introduced for treatment of Diabetes, and in Popular Culture Movies included The Ten Commandments and Hunchback of Notre Dame as well as the First baseball game was played on April 18 at Yankee Stadium.
In Technology , The worlds first domestic refrigerator was sold in Sweden. Up until then people had an ice-box. My grandfather's job was as the ice-man for those ice-boxes in Iowa.
Other things that happened were;
- Egypt --- King Tut Burial Chamber Opened
- Warner Brothers Established
- First Issue of Time Magazine
- Canada --- Insulin Used For Diabetes treatment
In 1923, Sun sent Chiang Kai-shek, one of his lieutenants, for several months of military and political study in Moscow. Chiang then became the head of the Whampoa Military Academy that trained the next generation of military leaders.
Russia In 1923:Incumbents[edit]
- General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin
- Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets – Mikhail Kalinin
- Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union – Vladimir Lenin Disney dining-commemorating 1923
- Walt Disney signs a contract with M. J. Winkler to produce a series of Alice Comedies. The year marks the start of The Walt Disney Company, first known as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio.
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