1920s
The 1920s contain 60 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1929-10-31 | Stimson Closes Yardley's Black Chamber, Briefly Interrupting U.S. Peacetime Signals Intelligence Henry L. Stimson · Herbert O. Yardley · State Department · War Department · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1929-10-25 | Albert Fall Convicted of Bribery - First Cabinet Member Imprisoned for Crimes in Office Albert Fall · Edward Doheny | confirmed | |
| 1929-08-01 | Investment Trust Leverage Pyramids Reach Unsustainable Peak Goldman Sachs · Investment Trusts · Federal Reserve | confirmed | |
| 1929-03-31 | Bernays "Torches of Freedom" Campaign Uses Feminism to Sell Cigarettes Edward Bernays · American Tobacco Company · George Washington Hill | confirmed | |
| 1929-02-02 | Federal Reserve Warns Against Speculation But Takes No Effective Action Federal Reserve Board · Benjamin Strong · Charles Mitchell · Andrew Mellon · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1928-08-27 | Kellogg-Briand Pact Outlaws War While Preserving Imperial Prerogatives Frank Kellogg · Aristide Briand · Calvin Coolidge · U.S. Senate | confirmed | |
| 1928-01-01 | Margin Buying Explosion Enables Rampant Stock Market Speculation Federal Reserve · Goldman Sachs · Investment Trusts | confirmed | |
| 1927-09-18 | CBS Founded as Radio Broadcasting Oligopoly Takes Shape William Paley · Columbia Phonograph Company · Arthur Judson · Paramount Pictures | confirmed | |
| 1927-08-23 | Sacco and Vanzetti Executed After Seven Years of Biased Proceedings Nicola Sacco · Bartolomeo Vanzetti · Alvin Fuller · A. Lawrence Lowell · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1927-05-02 | Supreme Court Endorses Forced Sterilization in Buck v. Bell Eugenics Decision Oliver Wendell Holmes · Carrie Buck · Harry Laughlin · U.S. Supreme Court · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1927-04-21 | Great Mississippi Flood Exposes Racial Labor Exploitation and Plantation System Herbert Hoover · LeRoy Percy · Red Cross · National Guard | confirmed | |
| 1927-04-11 | Supreme Court Applies Antitrust Law to Union Secondary Boycotts in Bedford Cut Stone George Sutherland · U.S. Supreme Court · Journeymen Stone Cutters Association · Bedford Cut Stone Company | confirmed | |
| 1927-02-25 | McFadden Act Perpetuates Banking Fragmentation, Prohibits Interstate Branching Louis Thomas McFadden · Calvin Coolidge · U.S. Congress · Federal Reserve | confirmed | |
| 1927-02-23 | Radio Act of 1927 Establishes Public Ownership of Airwaves and "Public Interest" Broadcasting Standard Calvin Coolidge · Clarence Dill · Wallace H. White Jr. · Federal Radio Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1927-01-01 | Company Unions Peak as Welfare Capitalism Undermines Independent Labor Goodyear Tire · U.S. Steel · National Association of Manufacturers · Samuel Gompers | confirmed | |
| 1926-11-15 | NBC Created as RCA Establishes Radio Broadcasting Monopoly David Sarnoff · Radio Corporation of America · General Electric · Westinghouse · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1926-10-25 | Myers v. United States: Taft Court Reads Presidential Removal Power Into Article II, Predicate for Later Unitary-Executive Claims U.S. Supreme Court · William Howard Taft · Woodrow Wilson · Frank S. Myers · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1926-08-06 | Gertrude Ederle Swims English Channel But Era Constrains Women's Progress Gertrude Ederle · Women's Sports Organizations | confirmed | |
| 1926-02-26 | Revenue Act of 1926 Slashes Top Tax Rate to 25%, Abolishes Gift Tax in Full Mellon Plan Andrew Mellon · Calvin Coolidge · U.S. Congress · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 1925-11-14 | D.C. Stephenson Convicted of Murder Exposing Klan Leadership Corruption D.C. Stephenson · Madge Oberholtzer · Indiana Ku Klux Klan · Ed Jackson | confirmed | |
| 1925-08-08 | KKK Marches on Washington at Peak of Institutional Influence Ku Klux Klan · Hiram Evans · D.C. Klan · State Governments | confirmed | |
| 1925-06-08 | Supreme Court Upholds Criminal Anarchy Conviction While Expanding Due Process Edward Sanford · Benjamin Gitlow · U.S. Supreme Court · Oliver Wendell Holmes | confirmed | |
| 1925-05-25 | Supreme Court Reverses Coronado Decision, Opens Unions to Antitrust Liability William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court · United Mine Workers of America · Coronado Coal Company | confirmed | |
| 1925-01-30 | Charles Forbes Convicted of Veterans Bureau Fraud After Nine-Week Trial Charles Forbes · Warren G. Harding · E.H. Mortimer · J.W. Thompson | confirmed | |
| 1925-01-01 | Florida Land Boom Epitomizes Unregulated Speculation and Securities Fraud Carl Fisher · George Merrick · Addison Mizner · Florida Legislature | confirmed | |
| 1924-06-02 | Revenue Act of 1924 Continues Mellon Tax Cuts for Wealthy, Lowers Top Rate to 46% Andrew Mellon · Calvin Coolidge · U.S. Congress · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 1924-05-26 | Immigration Act of 1924 Imposes Racist National Origins Quotas Based on Eugenics Calvin Coolidge · Albert Johnson · David Reed · Madison Grant · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1924-05-10 | Hoover Named Acting Director of Bureau of Investigation, Begins 48-Year Tenure J. Edgar Hoover · Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone · Bureau of Investigation · Calvin Coolidge | confirmed | |
| 1924-03-28 | Coolidge Fires Daugherty for Refusing to Open Justice Department Files Harry Daugherty · Calvin Coolidge · Warren G. Harding | confirmed | |
| 1924-01-15 | National Industrial Conference Board Coordinates Corporate Anti-Union Propaganda National Industrial Conference Board · National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · American Plan Association | confirmed | |
| 1923-10-15 | Senate Public Lands Committee Begins Teapot Dome Hearings Under Thomas Walsh Thomas Walsh · Albert Fall | confirmed | |
| 1923-09-01 | Ku Klux Klan Seizes Control of Indiana State Government D.C. Stephenson · Ed Jackson · Indiana Republican Party · Ku Klux Klan | confirmed | |
| 1923-05-30 | Jesse Smith Suicide Exposes Ohio Gang Justice Department Corruption Jesse Smith · Harry Daugherty · Warren G. Harding | confirmed | |
| 1923-04-09 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Minimum Wage Law for Women in Adkins Decision George Sutherland · U.S. Supreme Court · Children's Hospital · Willie Lyons | confirmed | |
| 1923-02-15 | Charles Forbes Resigns Veterans Bureau Amid Massive Corruption Scandal Charles Forbes · Warren G. Harding · Charles F. Cramer | confirmed | |
| 1923-01-01 | Edward Bernays Publishes "Crystallizing Public Opinion" Launching Modern PR Industry Edward Bernays · American Tobacco Company · Sigmund Freud | confirmed | |
| 1922-11-01 | Scripps-McRae League Renamed Scripps-Howard as Second-Largest Newspaper Chain Consolidates Power E.W. Scripps · Roy W. Howard · Robert Scripps · Scripps-Howard Newspapers | confirmed | |
| 1922-09-01 | Railway Shopcraft Strike Broken by Daugherty Sweeping Injunction Harry Daugherty · Warren G. Harding · Railroad Labor Board | confirmed | |
| 1922-06-05 | Supreme Court Rules Unincorporated Unions Can Be Sued in Coronado Coal Case William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court · United Mine Workers of America · Coronado Coal Company | confirmed | |
| 1922-05-15 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Child Labor Tax as Unconstitutional William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Congress · Drexel Furniture Company | confirmed | |
| 1922-04-15 | Senate Initiates Investigation of Teapot Dome Secret Oil Leases John Kendrick · Robert La Follette | confirmed | |
| 1922-04-07 | Albert Fall Secretly Grants Teapot Dome Oil Reserve to Harry Sinclair Without Competitive Bidding Albert Fall · Harry Sinclair | confirmed | |
| 1922-01-01 | Holding Company Proliferation Enables Corporate Consolidation and Regulatory Evasion Samuel Insull · J.P. Morgan · Van Sweringen Brothers · Delaware Corporation Commission | confirmed | |
| 1921-12-19 | Supreme Court Invalidates Arizona Anti-Injunction Law in Truax v. Corrigan William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court · Arizona State Legislature | confirmed | |
| 1921-11-30 | Interior Secretary Albert Fall Receives $100,000 Cash Bribe from Edward Doheny Albert Fall · Edward Doheny | confirmed | |
| 1921-11-23 | Revenue Act of 1921 Begins Mellon Tax Cuts for Wealthy Andrew Mellon · Warren G. Harding · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 1921-09-15 | DuPont-GM Consolidation Creates Model of Interlocking Corporate Control Pierre du Pont · Alfred P. Sloan · John J. Raskob · DuPont Company · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1921-08-25 | Battle of Blair Mountain - Largest Armed Labor Uprising in US History United Mine Workers of America · Sheriff Don Chafin · Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency · President Warren Harding | confirmed | |
| 1921-05-31 | Harding Transfers Naval Oil Reserves to Interior Department Warren G. Harding · Albert Fall · Edwin Denby | confirmed | |
| 1921-05-19 | Emergency Quota Act Establishes First Numerical Immigration Limits Based on National Origin Warren G. Harding · Albert Johnson · U.S. Congress · Immigration Restriction League | confirmed | |
| 1921-01-03 | Supreme Court Guts Clayton Act Labor Protections in Duplex Printing Decision Mahlon Pitney · U.S. Supreme Court · International Association of Machinists · Duplex Printing Press Company | confirmed | |
| 1921-01-01 | American Plan Open Shop Campaign Launches Nationwide Union Suppression National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · U.S. Steel · Henry Clay Frick · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1920-08-23 | Sacco and Vanzetti Arrested in Red Scare Climate of Anti-Immigrant Hysteria Nicola Sacco · Bartolomeo Vanzetti · Frederick Katzmann · Webster Thayer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1920-08-18 | Tennessee Becomes 36th State to Ratify 19th Amendment as Women Win Right to Vote Harry T. Burn · Febb E. Burn · Tennessee General Assembly · Carrie Chapman Catt · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1920-06-05 | Jones Act Establishes Shipping Protectionism Still Harming Consumers Today Wesley Jones · U.S. Congress · American Shipping Industry · Woodrow Wilson | confirmed | |
| 1920-06-01 | Farm Crisis Begins as Agricultural Prices Collapse While Debt Remains Andrew Mellon · Federal Reserve · Farm Bureau · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1920-05-28 | 'Report Upon the Illegal Practices of the United States Department of Justice' Repudiates Palmer Raids Felix Frankfurter · Roscoe Pound · Zechariah Chafee · National Popular Government League · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1920-03-01 | Supreme Court Dismisses U.S. Steel Antitrust Case, Ruling Size Alone Not Illegal - Enforcement Ends Until 1945 U.S. Supreme Court · Justice Joseph McKenna · Justice Day · U.S. Steel Corporation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1920-01-02 | Palmer Raids Escalate with Coordinated Mass Arrests Across 33 Cities Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer · J. Edgar Hoover · Department of Justice · Acting Secretary of Labor Louis Post | confirmed | |
| 1920-01-01 | Hearst Newspaper Empire Reaches 28 Papers Controlling One in Four American Readers Through Yellow Journalism Tactics William Randolph Hearst · Hearst Communications | confirmed |