The German right-wing parties know that the best way to keep presidential candidate Field Marshal von Hindenburg popular is to keep him quiet, so he’ll only be making a few speeches, mostly in Bavaria. Nationalists surround his house to keep reporters away from him – when did Hindenburg start to go visibly senile, anyway? surely not this soon? The NYT observes: “Political sentimentality is not lacking. ‘Our father Hindenburg, like children he led us back from the war-torn front to our homes and it is thanks to him that civil war was avoided in Germany,’ is a typical expression.” Ludendorff seems to have given up his own presidential run to back his former boss, presumably after the Bavarian Nazis decline to nominate him.
French PM Édouard Herriot wins a vote of confidence, though with a large number of abstentions, after a fight in the National Assembly over the increase of currency and Herriot saying he was bound to secrecy not to disclose that the government account at the Bank of France was over the legal limit and... oh, more stuff like that.
The 6th Court of Appeals in Cincinnati rules that radio stations can’t infringe copyrights on songs. It rules against the argument that radio broadcasts are not performances in the legal sense. Consider yourself warned, WKRP.
London theatres are experiencing a shortage of blonde chorus girls, as the trend toward bobbing means fewer women are dyeing their hair.
Speaking of bobbed hair, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is published. Spoiler Alert:
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