December 1922

December 1, 1922 (Friday)

  • The Bavarian towns of Passau and Ingolstadt were fined 50,000 gold marks each by the Allied governments for recent attacks on French and British military officers.[1]

December 2, 1922 (Saturday)

December 3, 1922 (Sunday)

December 4, 1922 (Monday)

December 5, 1922 (Tuesday)

December 6, 1922 (Wednesday)

December 7, 1922 (Thursday)

December 8, 1922 (Friday)

  • U.S. President Warren G. Harding delivered his State of the Union message to Congress. "It is four years since the World War ended", Harding said, "but the inevitable readjustment of the social and economic order is not more than barely begun." Harding spoke at length about the country's recent labor strife and recommended the creation of a non-partisan tribunal to replace the current Labor Board. On the matter of Prohibition he said "The day is unlikely to come when the Eighteenth Amendment will be repealed. The fact may as well be recognized and our course adapted accordingly."[10]
  • Born: Lucian Freud, painter, in Berlin, Germany (d. 2011)
  • Died: Rory O'Connor, 39, Irish republican (executed by firing squad)

December 9, 1922 (Saturday)

December 10, 1922 (Sunday)

December 11, 1922 (Monday)

December 12, 1922 (Tuesday)

  • A disarmament conference in Moscow among Russia, the Baltic states and Poland broke up without an agreement.[15]
  • The Labour Party started a filibuster that kept the House of Commons sitting continuously from 3 p.m. until 7 a.m. the next morning. The filibuster was a form of protest against the government for its decision to adjourn Parliament on Friday until the middle of January without addressing Britain's unemployment problem.[16]
  • Born: Christian Dotremont, painter and poet, in Tervuren, Belgium (d. 1979); Edythe Perlick, baseball player, in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2003)
  • Died: John Wanamaker, 84, American merchant, religious leader and political figure

December 13, 1922 (Wednesday)

December 14, 1922 (Thursday)

December 15, 1922 (Friday)

December 16, 1922 (Saturday)

December 17, 1922 (Sunday)

December 18, 1922 (Monday)

December 19, 1922 (Tuesday)

December 20, 1922 (Wednesday)

December 21, 1922 (Thursday)

  • The Women's Federation of Canada announced that it would fight to maintain the ban on Fatty Arbuckle's pictures in Canada, and that it would try to get an act passed in Canadian Parliament which would prohibit the showing of pictures featuring actors frequently mentioned in divorce courts and scandals.[31]
  • Born: Itubwa Amram, pastor and political figure, in Nauru (d. 1989); Paul Winchell, ventriloquist, actor and comedian, in New York City (d. 2005)

December 22, 1922 (Friday)

December 23, 1922 (Saturday)

December 24, 1922 (Sunday)

December 25, 1922 (Monday)

  • The Workers Party of America declared for the "dictatorship of the proletariat and the supplanting of the existing capitalist government with a soviet government", but abandoned agitating for armed insurrection in order to avoid being prosecuted by the American government.[34]

December 26, 1922 (Tuesday)

  • By a vote of 3-1 the Allied Reparations Committee declared Germany in voluntary default due to a delayed timber delivery to France. Great Britain cast the only dissenting vote, while France, Belgium and Italy voted in favour of the declaration.[3][35]
  • Mussolini ordered a new design for Italian coinage that would bear the fasces.[36]

December 27, 1922 (Wednesday)

  • The Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho was commissioned, the first ship designed from the beginning to be a carrier.[29]
  • The science fiction film The Man from M.A.R.S., notable for using an early 3-D process, was released.

December 28, 1922 (Thursday)

  • A letter from President Harding to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge was read in the Senate. In the message Harding stated that the United States would not call a world economic conference unless European nations accepted that cancellation of war debts owed to America would not be considered.[37]
  • Born: Stan Lee, comic book creator and president of Marvel Comics, in New York City

December 29, 1922 (Friday)

  • Germany's floating debt passed 1 trillion marks.[38]
  • Born: William Gaddis, novelist, in New York City (d. 1998)

December 30, 1922 (Saturday)

December 31, 1922 (Sunday)

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  2. "Greek Rebels Exile Prince". Chicago Daily Tribune. December 3, 1922. p. 1.
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  4. "Princess is Glad as Greeks Order Andrew's Exile". Chicago Daily Tribune. December 4, 1922. p. 3.
  5. "Second Harding Budget Calls For $3,078,940,331". Chicago Daily Tribune. December 5, 1922. p. 3.
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  13. "Shantung Again in China's Hands". Chicago Daily Tribune. December 11, 1922. p. 1.
  14. Steele, John (December 12, 1922). "Premiers Pave Way for French to Seize Ruhr". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 3.
  15. Seldes, George (December 13, 1922). "Russia Rejects Ultimatum by Baltic States". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 12.
  16. Steele, John (December 14, 1922). "Laborites Rob Parliament of Night's Sleep". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 2.
  17. "Poisoned Candy Sent to British Home Secretary". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. December 14, 1922. p. 1.
  18. Kinsley, Philip (December 14, 1922). ""Justification" and Alibis as Herrin Defense". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
  19. "Germany Very near Complete Collapse – Law". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. December 14, 1922. p. 1.
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  21. Seldes, George (December 15, 1922). "Soviet Bans Santa Claus and Angels". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
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  23. "Pilsudski Back in Saddle; Peril to Poland Fades". Chicago Daily Tribune. December 18, 1922. p. 5.
  24. "Masked Bandit Holds Up U. S. Mint, Escapes with $200,000 in Cash; Boro Thugs Get Bank's $22,000". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. December 18, 1922. p. 1.
  25. "10 Killed in Fascisti Reprisals in Turin; Buildings Set Afire". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. December 19, 1922. p. 1.
  26. "7 Train Wreckers Executed in Dublin; Had Goods, Rifles". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. December 19, 1922. p. 1.
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  28. Doherty, Edward (December 21, 1922). "Santa Hays Puts Movie Pardon on Fatty's Stocking". Chicago Daily Tribune. p. 1.
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  31. "Canada Women Forbid Arbuckle in Film Shows". Chicago Daily Tribune. December 22, 1922. p. 11.
  32. "Flames Destroy Quebec Church of Notre Dame". Chicago Daily Tribune. December 22, 1922. p. 1.
  33. Draper, Theodore (2003). The Roots of American Communism. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers. p. 389. ISBN 978-1-4128-3880-1.
  34. "Down with U. S., Up With Soviet! New Party Cries". Chicago Daily Tribune. December 26, 1922. p. 12.
  35. "Germany Held in Default on Reparations". Chicago Daily Tribune. December 27, 1922. p. 3.
  36. "Mussolini Orders New Coinage for Italy". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. December 26, 1922. p. 3.
  37. "Harding Gives U.S. Conditions on World Meet". Chicago Daily Tribune. December 29, 1922. p. 1.
  38. "Germany's Debt Hits Trillion in Paper Marks". Chicago Daily Tribune. December 30, 1922. p. 2.
  39. "France Rejects Germans' Offer of Nonwar Pact". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 1, 1923. p. 5.
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