Virginia Green, Author at SHINE on Salem

Author: Virginia Green

Salem in 1930

World Events

A worldwide economic Depression begins which will last for ten years.
Constantinople’s name is changed to Istanbul in the new nation of Turkey.
Mahatma Gandhi, practicing “civil disobedience”, starts a 200-mile protest march to the sea with 78 followers to protest British control of salt.

Salem in 1929

World Events

The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war, goes into effect, signed by most leading countries. It did not prevent WW II, but many of its provisions were included in the United Nations organization in 1945. Frank B. Kellogg is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for this pact.

Salem in 1928

World Events

Herbert Hoover sweeps into the White House with 444 electoral votes, defeating Al Smith ~ the first Catholic nominated to be president.
Chiang Kai-shek is named Chairman of the National Military Council of the Nationalist government of the Republic of China.

Salem in 1927

World Events

As the controlling Chinese Nationalists murder members of the opposition Communist party in Nanchang, the Communist Chinese People’s Liberation Army is formed.
Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with control of the Soviet Union.

Salem in 1926

World Events

Crown Prince Nguyen Phuc Vinh Thuy ascends to the throne of Vietnam. He will be their last monarch of that country.
Spain’s General Francisco Franco participates in a failed coup against the republic, beginning the Spanish Civil War that precedes World War II.

Salem in 1925

World Events

Kristiania, the capitol of Norway, reverts to its original name of Oslo. After a fire destroyed the city in 1624, it had been rebuilt and named for King Christian IV.
London’s first enclosed double-decker buses are in service.
Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master, begins a silence that lasts for 44 years, until his death.

Salem in 1924

World Events

Fascist Benito Mussolini, using secret police to crush unions and enforce extreme nationalism, is elected Prime Minister and then Il Duce (the leader) in Italy.
At the death of Lenin, Joseph Stalin purges his rivals to become ruler in the USSR.

Church of God of Oregon, 1760 State Street in SESNA

In 1900 , C. N. Potter and wife deeded this land, a part of the A. F. Waller Donation Land Claim, to the Evangelical Lutheran Christian Church of Salem, Oregon, a corporation, and to D. G. and A. W. Granger. It is assumed the church was built soon after that date...

Marion Apartments, 610 Commercial Street NE in CANDO

Research is beginning on this 1920 apartment building at the northeast corner of Commercial and Union Streets. The Sanborn map of 1926 shows the footprint as the building today, although the L section at the rear appears to have been constructed at a slightly different, lower elevation...

Salem in 1923

World Events

During a western states Voyage of Understanding (during which he placed a memorial on a Oregon Trail site), President Harding dies suddenly in San Francisco. Vice President Calvin Coolidge succeeds to the office.
Pancho Villa, after years of battles for control of the Mexican government and military, re-emerges on the political scene, but is assassinated in Chihuahua.