Decade of record

1920s

The 1920s contain 63 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.

63 events From Jan 1, 1920 To Oct 31, 1929 Open in filter view →
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DateEventLanesStatus
1929-10-31Stimson Closes Yardley's Black Chamber, Briefly Interrupting U.S. Peacetime Signals Intelligence 3 src
State Department
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1929-10-25Albert Fall Convicted of Bribery - First Cabinet Member Imprisoned for Crimes in Office 3 src
Albert Fall
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1929-08-01Investment Trust Leverage Pyramids Reach Unsustainable Peak 3 src
Goldman Sachs · Federal Reserve
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1929-03-31Bernays "Torches of Freedom" Campaign Uses Feminism to Sell Cigarettes 3 src
Edward Bernays · American Tobacco Company
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1929-02-02Federal Reserve Warns Against Speculation But Takes No Effective Action 3 src
Federal Reserve Board · Andrew Mellon · National City Bank
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1928-08-27Kellogg-Briand Pact Outlaws War While Preserving Imperial Prerogatives 3 src
Calvin Coolidge · U.S. Senate
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1928-01-01Margin Buying Explosion Enables Rampant Stock Market Speculation 3 src
Federal Reserve · Goldman Sachs
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1927-09-18CBS Founded as Radio Broadcasting Oligopoly Takes Shape 3 src
Paramount Pictures
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1927-08-23Sacco and Vanzetti Executed After Seven Years of Biased Proceedings 3 src confirmed
1927-05-02Supreme Court Endorses Forced Sterilization in Buck v. Bell Eugenics Decision 3 src
U.S. Supreme Court
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1927-04-21Great Mississippi Flood Exposes Racial Labor Exploitation and Plantation System 3 src
Herbert Hoover · National Guard
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1927-04-11Supreme Court Applies Antitrust Law to Union Secondary Boycotts in Bedford Cut Stone 3 src
George Sutherland · U.S. Supreme Court
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1927-02-25McFadden Act Perpetuates Banking Fragmentation, Prohibits Interstate Branching 3 src
Calvin Coolidge · U.S. Congress · Federal Reserve
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1927-02-23Radio Act of 1927 Establishes Public Ownership of Airwaves and "Public Interest" Broadcasting Standard 4 src
Calvin Coolidge · U.S. Congress
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1927-01-01Company Unions Peak as Welfare Capitalism Undermines Independent Labor 3 src
U.S. Steel · National Association of Manufacturers · Samuel Gompers
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1926-11-15NBC Created as RCA Establishes Radio Broadcasting Monopoly 3 src
General Electric · AT&T
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1926-10-25Myers v. United States: Taft Court Reads Presidential Removal Power Into Article II, Predicate for Later Unitary-Executive Claims 3 src
U.S. Supreme Court · William Howard Taft · Woodrow Wilson · Louis Brandeis
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1926-08-06Gertrude Ederle Swims English Channel But Era Constrains Women's Progress 2 srcconfirmed
1926-02-26Revenue Act of 1926 Slashes Top Tax Rate to 25%, Abolishes Gift Tax in Full Mellon Plan 3 src
Andrew Mellon · Calvin Coolidge · U.S. Congress · Republican Party
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1925-11-14D.C. Stephenson Convicted of Murder Exposing Klan Leadership Corruption 3 srcconfirmed
1925-08-08KKK Marches on Washington at Peak of Institutional Influence 3 src
Ku Klux Klan
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1925-06-08Supreme Court Upholds Criminal Anarchy Conviction While Expanding Due Process 3 src
U.S. Supreme Court
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1925-05-25Supreme Court Reverses Coronado Decision, Opens Unions to Antitrust Liability 3 src
William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court · United Mine Workers of America
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1925-01-30Charles Forbes Convicted of Veterans Bureau Fraud After Nine-Week Trial 3 src
Warren G. Harding
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1925-01-01Florida Land Boom Epitomizes Unregulated Speculation and Securities Fraud 3 src
Florida Legislature
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1924-06-02Revenue Act of 1924 Continues Mellon Tax Cuts for Wealthy, Lowers Top Rate to 46% 3 src
Andrew Mellon · Calvin Coolidge · U.S. Congress · Republican Party
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1924-05-28U.S. Border Patrol Founded Staffed by Former Klansmen and Texas Rangers
1924-05-26Immigration Act of 1924 Imposes Racist National Origins Quotas Based on Eugenics 3 src
Calvin Coolidge · U.S. Congress
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1924-05-10Hoover Named Acting Director of Bureau of Investigation, Begins 48-Year Tenure 3 src
J. Edgar Hoover · Harlan Fiske Stone · Bureau of Investigation · Calvin Coolidge
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1924-03-28Coolidge Fires Daugherty for Refusing to Open Justice Department Files 3 src
Harry Daugherty · Calvin Coolidge · Warren G. Harding
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1924-01-15National Industrial Conference Board Coordinates Corporate Anti-Union Propaganda 3 src
National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce
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1923-10-15Senate Public Lands Committee Begins Teapot Dome Hearings Under Thomas Walsh 3 src
Albert Fall
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1923-09-01Ku Klux Klan Seizes Control of Indiana State Government 3 src
Ku Klux Klan
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1923-05-30Jesse Smith Suicide Exposes Ohio Gang Justice Department Corruption 3 src
Harry Daugherty · Warren G. Harding
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1923-04-09Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Minimum Wage Law for Women in Adkins Decision 3 src
George Sutherland · U.S. Supreme Court
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1923-02-15Charles Forbes Resigns Veterans Bureau Amid Massive Corruption Scandal 3 src
Warren G. Harding
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1923-01-01Edward Bernays Publishes "Crystallizing Public Opinion" Launching Modern PR Industry 3 src
Edward Bernays · American Tobacco Company
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1923-01-01Rosewood Massacre Destroys Entire Black Florida Town Following False Accusation
1922-11-01Scripps-McRae League Renamed Scripps-Howard as Second-Largest Newspaper Chain Consolidates Power 4 src confirmed
1922-09-01Railway Shopcraft Strike Broken by Daugherty Sweeping Injunction 3 src
Harry Daugherty · Warren G. Harding
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1922-06-05Supreme Court Rules Unincorporated Unions Can Be Sued in Coronado Coal Case 3 src
William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court · United Mine Workers of America
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1922-05-15Supreme Court Strikes Down Federal Child Labor Tax as Unconstitutional 3 src
William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Congress
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1922-04-15Senate Initiates Investigation of Teapot Dome Secret Oil Leases 3 srcconfirmed
1922-04-07Albert Fall Secretly Grants Teapot Dome Oil Reserve to Harry Sinclair Without Competitive Bidding 3 src
Albert Fall
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1922-01-01Holding Company Proliferation Enables Corporate Consolidation and Regulatory Evasion 3 src
J.P. Morgan
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1921-12-19Supreme Court Invalidates Arizona Anti-Injunction Law in Truax v. Corrigan 3 src
William Howard Taft · U.S. Supreme Court
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1921-11-30Interior Secretary Albert Fall Receives $100,000 Cash Bribe from Edward Doheny 3 src
Albert Fall
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1921-11-23Revenue Act of 1921 Begins Mellon Tax Cuts for Wealthy 3 src
Andrew Mellon · Warren G. Harding · Republican Party
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1921-09-15DuPont-GM Consolidation Creates Model of Interlocking Corporate Control 3 src
General Motors
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1921-08-25Battle of Blair Mountain - Largest Armed Labor Uprising in US History 3 src
United Mine Workers of America
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1921-06-01Tulsa Race Massacre Destroys Black Wall Street in Largest Single Act of Racial Collective Punishment
1921-05-31Harding Transfers Naval Oil Reserves to Interior Department 3 src
Warren G. Harding · Albert Fall
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1921-05-19Emergency Quota Act Establishes First Numerical Immigration Limits Based on National Origin 3 src
Warren G. Harding · U.S. Congress
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1921-01-03Supreme Court Guts Clayton Act Labor Protections in Duplex Printing Decision 3 src
U.S. Supreme Court
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1921-01-01American Plan Open Shop Campaign Launches Nationwide Union Suppression 3 src
National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · U.S. Steel · Henry Clay Frick · +1
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1920-08-23Sacco and Vanzetti Arrested in Red Scare Climate of Anti-Immigrant Hysteria 3 src
Department of Justice
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1920-08-18Tennessee Becomes 36th State to Ratify 19th Amendment as Women Win Right to Vote 3 src
Tennessee General Assembly
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1920-06-05Jones Act Establishes Shipping Protectionism Still Harming Consumers Today 3 src
U.S. Congress · Woodrow Wilson
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1920-06-01Farm Crisis Begins as Agricultural Prices Collapse While Debt Remains 3 src
Andrew Mellon · Federal Reserve · U.S. Congress
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1920-05-28'Report Upon the Illegal Practices of the United States Department of Justice' Repudiates Palmer Raids 2 src
A. Mitchell Palmer · J. Edgar Hoover
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1920-03-01Supreme Court Dismisses U.S. Steel Antitrust Case, Ruling Size Alone Not Illegal - Enforcement Ends Until 1945 4 src
U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Steel Corporation
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1920-01-02Palmer Raids Escalate with Coordinated Mass Arrests Across 33 Cities 5 src
A. Mitchell Palmer · J. Edgar Hoover · Department of Justice
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1920-01-01Hearst Newspaper Empire Reaches 28 Papers Controlling One in Four American Readers Through Yellow Journalism Tactics 4 src confirmed