Today -100: May 14, 1925: One lord a-leeping

Headline of the Day -100:

He says the battle is between 11,000 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science versus 109 million Americans. “For the first time in my life I’m on the side of the majority.”

Leon Trotsky is back in Moscow after an 8-month absence officially attributed to illness but which no one believes was due to illness. He is elected to the Presidium to louder applause than, say, Stalin.

Lord Alfred Milner, the 1st (and last) Viscount Milner, 71, governor of the Cape Colony (1897-1901) and of the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony (1901-1905), secretary of state for War (1918-1919), sec. state for the Colonies (1919-1921), and, like all arch-imperialists, prominent opponent of women’s suffrage, dies of sleeping sickness after a visit to South Africa, or, as the NYT index puts it,

Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway is published.

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