Today -100: November 18, 1924: Of quora, women’s suffrage, and monuments

With the opposition boycotting the Italian parliament, that institution has become so boring that it’s having difficulty maintaining a quorum.

Mussolini supposedly favors women’s suffrage, and there is some move to implement it at least for municipal elections.

Anti-Semites destroy a Potsdam monument to the French Jewish actress “Rachel,” born Elisabeth Félix, which was erected by Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV after she performed before him and Czar Nicholas I.

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