The Senate votes 40-30 to condemn the Harding Administration’s selling of the Teapot Dome leases. This finishes the matter as far as the Senate is concerned.
Headline of the Day -100:
Hey, you know what might take the edge off? A little opium. Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, the chief rep of (checks notes) Britain, rejects the US proposal for a goal of ending opium smoking in the Far East within 15 years, which he says would just be a farce. He is, however, forced to withdraw the comment he made yesterday that the US uses more opium & other narcotics than India, where they grow the stuff.
Miriam A. “Ma” Ferguson is sworn in as governor of Texas, taking the traditional oath not to participate in any duels. “She carried no bouquet.”
During a trial of 10 Jersey City cops & 2 others, Sen. Edward Edwards (D-NJ), a man so almost nice they named him almost twice, is accused by a federal agent of being a bootlegger who was paid $3,800 for 100 cases of whisky in a sting operation. The deal fell through before any booze was delivered. Some of the testimony is a little implausible. The senator hasn’t been called as a witness (and won’t be).
Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes tells Latin American countries that they should also adopt the Monroe Doctrine, which certainly isn’t about maintaining US hegemony in the hemisphere, perish the thought. Also, the failure to end the US occupation of Nicaragua is because the Nicaraguan president asked us to stay, and we’ll withdraw those marines from Haiti just as soon as there’s “a reasonable prospect of peace and stability.”
Leon Trotsky is (finally) fired as the minister of war. He is accused of expressing anti-, or at least non-Communist views. And he refused to acknowledge his mistakes. REFUSED TO ACKNOWLEDGE HIS MISTAKES.
A Connecticut man who owns a cat that can predict storms will offer him to Pres. Coolidge.
No comments:
Post a Comment