1924
New York Representative Emanuel Cellar introduces legislation to provide for the formation of a blue-ribbon panel to study the racial question. The idea is met with disdain from the black press, particularly
the Chicago Defender; which editorializes: "We have been commissioned to death... We have too many studies and reports already." The Defender asserts that blacks need only to look after their own interests through the
creation of a strong party vehicle and potent political leadership in the halls of Congress.
1924
The U.S. Immigration Act excludes blacks of African descent from entering the United States.
1924
Hitler reads the second edition of the textbook, Menschliche
Erblichkeitslehre und Rassenhygiene (The principles of human heredity and
race-hygiene), written by E. Baur, E. Fischer, and F. Lenz, while imprisoned in
Landsberg, and subsequently incorporates racial ideas into his own book, Mein
Kampf. (Science).
1924
The Union Banking Corporation is formally established, as a
unit in the Manhattan offices of the W.A. Harriman & Co., interlocking with
the Fritz Thyssen-owned Bank Voor Handel en Scheepvaart (BHS) in the
Netherlands.
1924
The Geneva Protocol of 1924, which brands aggressive war as an international crime, fails because of British opposition.
1924
The Soviet GPU (General Political Administration), formerly the Cheka secret police, again changes its name. It becomes the OPGU so as to include the entire USSR. It's function remains the same.
1924
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, a leading Soviet theoretician, becomes a full member of the Politburo.
1924
J. Edgar Hoover is appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation). (FBI)
1924
A letter to the British Communist party calling for a revolution is published in Britain. Allegedly written by Zinoviev, President of the Comintern, this so-called Zinoviev letter was probably a forgery used to generate anti-leftist feelings on the eve of the general election, but may have been authentic.
1924
A branch of the Catholic League for Patriotic Politics in Munich publishes an article in one of its publications, "Der Ruetlischwur," calling for a fight against what it calls the three forces of evil opposing
Germany and the Catholic Church: Marxists, Jews, and Freemasons.
1924
Nesta H. Webster publishes Secret Societies and Subversive Movements, again linking the French Revolution, the Illuminati, Jacobians, Freemasonry, the Jews and Communism. This book, too, is widely read both in Europe and America.
1924
Joseph Goebbels becomes editor of the right-wing newspaper "Volkischer Freiheit" (Folkish Freedom).
1924
The Greek military declares a republic and King George II is exiled.
1924
The exclusionary Immigration Act of 1924 is passed by the U.S. Congress, limiting immigration by race and nationality, among other criteria.
1924
The Pierpont Morgan Library, the personal library of J.P. Morgan, is opened in New York City and made available to scholars.
1924
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., leaves the University of Virginia without graduating.
1924
Ferdynand (Fernand) Ossendowski publishes "Betes, hommes et dieux" a French edition of "Men, Beasts and Gods" in Paris. According to Mongol legend the King of the World was said to reign somewhere in southern Mongolia. (Betes, hommes et dieux, Angebert, Roots)
1924 January 18
A plot on the part of the Executive Committee of the Communist International forces Leon Trotsky, Commissioner of the People for the Red Army, to retire.
1924 January 21
Lenin suffers a fatal stroke. A triumvirate with Stalin, Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev is formed after Lenin's death to exclude Trotsky from power.
1924 January 22
MacDonald forms the first Labor Government in Britain.
1924 February
Trotsky is censured for what is called "factionalism."
1924 February 1
Great Britain extends de jure recognition to the U.S.S.R.
1924 February 15
Cardinal Faulhaber tells to a meeting of students
and academicians at the Lowenbrau Beer Cellar in Munich that Hitler knew better
than his underlings that the resurrection of the German nation required the
support of Christianity. This theme of the good and well-intentioned Fuehrer and
his evil advisors continues periodically throughout Hitler's career.
