Russian Orthodox faithful prevented the police from confiscating icons from St. Andrew's Cathedral in St. Petersburg.
Communist authorities subsequently turned the church over to the Soviet-sponsored Renovationist Church that promoted a pro-Communist Orthodox body which originally been a post Russian Revolution reform movement with in the Russian Orthodox Church, but which was taken over by the Communist infiltration. It received Communist backing at first, but was ultimately repressed, just as the Russian Orthodox Church was. It never received the support of the Russian faithful, and it passed away after World War Two. Almost all of its priests returned to the Orthodox Church after Stalin stopped the strict oppression of it during World War Two.
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President Coolidge gave the famous "You Lose" reply to Associated Press president Frank B. Noyes introduction to the AP conference that stated that Noyes could "get more than two words" out Coolidge.
John Phillip Hill presented petition on the country's liquor prohibition.
Hill was a Congressman from Maryland who would himself be arrested during prohibition after he planted apples and grapes at his home, and used them for alcohol. He renamed his home a "farm", as farmers were allowed to do that for home consumption, which didn't serve to avoid the law. A jury found him not guilty as his products, at a whopping 12% alcohol, were "not intoxicating in fact".
German born Western artist Herman Wendelborg Hansen died at age 70.
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The first public Mass at the Catholic Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C. took. The Mass was celebrated by Bishop Thomas Joseph Shahan.
Shahan is interred in a crypt as the basilica, the only person to have received internment there to date.
The Turkish Constitution was ratified by the Grand National Assembly. It established Islam as the official religion and Turkish as the official language. Ankara was established as the capital.
The Casper Daily Tribune issued an Easter Sunday edition noting the result of the prior day's meeting on a councilman with a liquor charge.
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National Barn Dance, a direct precursor to the Grand Old Opry, premiered on Chicago's WLS, running a whopping four hours every Saturday night. It would run until 1968.
The Washington Post depicted Coolidge holding fast in a political cartoon.
Political cartoonists were making fun of it, but the Japanese were both measured and enraged by the passage of the Japanese Exclusion Act. On this day, Japanese businesses in Japan began cancelling orders from the US in reaction.
Regarding the Chicago Tribune cartoon from above, one of the most remarkable things about it is that the cartoonist included five political parties. One wouldn't do that today.
Wyoming's Senator F. E. Warrren was already urging reconsideration of the act, and urging meetings to consider its impact.
The All-India Yadav Mahasabha was formed to promote equal treatment of and rights for Yadav people, the poorest people in India's caste system.
Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures were merged by Marcus Loew to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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Germany accepted the Dawes Plan.
Romania announced that it had settled its debts with Italy.
Senator Warren was reported as having voted against the Japanese Exclusion Act.
Henry (Enrico) Mancini was born. He enlisted in the Army upon turning age 18 in 1943 and interestingly served in the 28th Air Force Band before being reassigned overseas to the 1306th Engineers Brigade in France. He was the writer of many famous movie scores.
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Baseball didn't make the front page on this day in 1924. The House passing the Japanese Exclusion Act did.
But it was opening day.
Greek voters overwhelmingly cast their ballots to abolish the monarchy and endorse the Second Hellenic Republic.
The king, however, wouldn't be gone forever. . . this time.
The round the world flight made impressive progress.
The Chief Radio Operator of the USS Arizona discovered 19 year old prostitute Madeline Blair on board the ship when she lingered too long on deck at a water cooler, called a scuttlebutt, while the ship was off of Balboa, Panama, getting ready to pass through the canal.
She had been allowed to stow away and hide on board by sympathetic sialors who bought her sad tale of poverty and the need to go to California. On board she was hidden in an unused genetaror compartment and charged $10.00/day for lodging and meals, a huge sum at the time, by ship's cooks and she plied her trade at $3.00 per trick.
Going on deck only at night, and dressing in dungarees and blue sailor's work shirt, she'd been earlier discovered by a sailor while watching a movie from a searchlight platform when he'd reached into the breast pocket of the shirt she was wearing and detected her correct anatomy. While shocked, that sailor had kept his discovery to himself. The Chief Radio Operator did not. She was put ashore and then returned to New York on hte Panama Railway Company SS Cristobal, which charged the Navy for her fare.
Twenty-three sailors would be court-martialed and Blair would write her story for The San Francisco Examiner in 1928.
Dawes met with Mussolini, who expressed support for the Dawes Plan.
The House passed the Japanese Exclusion Act.
Japan, through its U.S. delegation, warned the US that grave consequences would occur if the Senate passed the Immigration Act of 1924 which limited immigration from Asian nations.
The noted was passed to the Chairman of the Senate Immigration Committee, LeBaron B. Colt.
On April 19, the U.S. Senate voted, 62 to 6, to pass the bill, which had already passed the House.
Arizona closed its border with California as part of an effort to prevent an outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease.
4,000 Germans staged a demonstration in Breslau in favor of Crown Prince Wilhelm, son of the former Kaiser, to return to Germany as Kaiser Wilhelm III. On the same day, the German Association of Industry released a statement expressing approval of the Dawes Plan.
Casper was no longer blue.
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There was of course headline news this day in 1924:
But it's the clothing ad that drew my attention:
The United States Army Air Service launched its around the world flying expedition from Seattle, Washington, although as previously noted, it could be argued the party had commenced several days prior by flying to Seattle.
