Sunday, February 20, 2022

Today -100: February 20, 1922: Of governors, and king-free constitutions


E. Montgomery Reily, the appointed governor of Puerto Rico, is still not popular. Several of his appointments have been rejected by the Legislature, and his opponents have found evidence that they think will cause Harding to remove him from office or Congress to impeach him: when he was assistant postmaster of Kansas City, Missouri in 1909, I believe, it was recommended he be fired because he spread rumors about prominent Kansas Cityhoovians.

The Viceroy for Ireland Lord FitzAlan orders, finally, the release of the IRA prisoners which set off all that hostage-taking. And at a meeting in Cork attended by many IRA members, Éamon de Valera calls on the Free Staters to make a constitution “which the English king will not be in.”

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