Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Today -100: January 29, 1925: Oh I think it made some difference


The president of the British Optical Association, W.R. Baker, warns against eyestrain from doing crossword puzzles.

Harlan Fiske Stone’s appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee is held in open session. He answers questions about the DOJ prosecution of Sen. Burton Wheeler for “conspiracy,” including why a 2nd prosecution was in DC when the first was in Montana, where all the witnesses are. The NYT, at least, is entirely satisfied with Stone’s answers, asserting, “Whether the man whose prosecution he thought necessary was a Senator or a colored janitor made no difference to him.”

Nome, Alaska has a diphtheria outbreak. Antitoxin is being rushed there by dog sled. Should take a couple of weeks. 

Gloria Swanson marries Henri, the Marquis de la Falaise, her translator on “Madame Sans-Gêne,” a lost film which is being shot in France. This is the 25-year-old Swanson’s third marriage, but by no means her last.

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  1. You know a guy is motivated politically when the editorial board states "the insinuation that the Attorney General had been actuated by political motives is manifestly absurd." And I love "All accusations that he was in any way party to a movement to “persecute” Senator Wheeler were denied emphatically and at some length by the Attorney General." I can't help but sense the blatant falsehood -- this from a guy who would become a Supreme Court Justice for the next zillion years...

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