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...mass meeting took place in Munich in February 1920. The leader intended to participate in a monarchist attempt to seize power a month later; but for this abortive Putsch Führer Hitler arrived too late. An even less successful National Socialist attempt?the famed Munich Beer Hall Putsch of 1923???provided the party with dead martyrs, landed Herr Hitler in jail. His incarceration at Landsberg Fortress gave him time to write the first volume of Mein Kampf, now a "must" on every German bookshelf...
...since 1924, found reflection in railroad earnings. Gross railroad income for February was down 10.11% from February 1929 while the $97,448,000 net was off 22.40% and was the worst result for February since 1918. Manufacturing production has fallen off so that the March figure (Electrical World statistics, 1923???25 = 100%) was 125% against 135.7% a year ago. Steel has held fairly well, with March's rate of 122.6% contrasting to 145.2% for the same month in 1929. The U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (using 1926 as 100%) give the following price changes for March against March...
...Professor Charles Edward Merriam of the Politics department ran for mayor in 1911. He was called "unofficial premier of Chicago" during the mayoralty (1923???27) of his good friend William Emmett Dever...
Died. Victor Louis Berger, 69, of Milwaukee, longtime (1911?13; 1923???27) Representative (Socialist); in Milwaukee...
...1919?to Paris and the grave of her son; Nov. 1919?to Brazil; Jan. 1922?Antwerp, thence to South Africa; Dec. 1923???World Tour. (New York. Tokyo, Moscow, Berlin, Paris, Naples and home); Dec. 1924?Cuba: May 1925?Italy; Jan. 1926?Yucatan (to study Mayans); Jan. 1927?South America (Bolivia, Montevideo, Argentina, etc.); Jan. 1928? Panama. Salvador, Cuba, Guatemala; Aug. 1928 ?Europe; Jan. 1929?Switzerland...