Dr. Charles Horace Mayo said that "the pace of modern life is serious, causing many of our present day ills. A return to the simple life would do away with the necessity for many doctors, but, alas, how can this be done?"[4]
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The government of Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk issued a decree effectively suppressing the Progressive Republican Party, the only opposition party in Turkey. The decree charged the Progressive Republicans with using religion as a political instrument.[5]
Norway sent out two planes and two steamships to search for the North Pole seaplane expedition of Roald Amundsen which had been missing for over two weeks.[7]
The American automobile brand Chrysler was founded.[3]
In a spontaneous reaction against the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera, the crowd at an FC Barcelona game jeered the "Marcha Real" and applauded the English anthem "God Save the King" as performed by an English marching band. The football club was fined and shut down for six months in reprisal.[12]
Both crews of the abandoned Roald Amundsen North Pole flight expedition piled into the N25 and barely managed to take off from their makeshift airstrip.[14]
A Reichsgericht judgment struck down a law for the purpose of confiscation of all the demesne lands of the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, ruling it was unconstitutional. The decision caused much public resentment in Germany and the question of expropriation of the dynastic properties of the former ruling houses of the German Empire became a contentious political subject.[16]
Benito Mussolini proclaimed the "Battle for Wheat", aimed at increasing Italy's wheat production to the point of becoming completely self-sufficient and no longer needing to import grain.[17]
The National Fascist Party of Italy ended its fourth and final party congress in Rome. Such conferences had become increasingly unnecessary as the Fascist Party expanded its power and became essentially the state.[19] In Benito Mussolini's closing speech he first used the word "totalitarian" when he referred to "our ferocious totalitarian will."[20]
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^Kaes, Anton; Jay, Martin; Dimendberg, Edward, eds. (1994). The Weimar Republic Sourcebook. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 476. ISBN0-520-06775-4.
^Stentzel, Rainer (2000). "Zum Verhältnis von Recht und Politik in der Weimarer Republik. Der Streit um die sogenannte Fürstenenteignung" [On the relationship between law and politics in the Weimar Republic: The dispute aver the expropriation of the Princes' property]. Der Staat (in German). 39th year (2): 278.
^Ke-wen, Wang (1998). Modern China: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture and Nationalism. New York: Spon Press. p. 42. ISBN0-419-22160-3.
^Bevans, Charles I. (1971). Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America 1776–1949, Volume 8. United States Department of State. p. 1132.
^"Women's War Memorial". The British Medical Journal (Vol. 2 No. 3366 ed.). London, UK: BMJ. 4 July 1925. p. 25.
^Hale, Georgia (1999). Charlie Chaplin: Intimate Close-Ups. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, Inc. p. xv. ISBN978-1-4616-5737-8.