Today -100: November 29, 1925: Of booze bounties

Texas Gov. Miriam “Ma” Ferguson offers a $500 reward for the arrest and conviction of any Texan for violation of prohibition laws – if they’re worth more than $5,000. This is her response to critics of her pardons of poor people jailed for low-level liquor offences, such as certain millionaire newspaper publishers. The press conference does nothing to dispel the notion that it’s her husband who is really running the state, as she turns all the hard questions over to him. The Austin American editorializes, “James E. Ferguson Should Cease to Be Governor.”

The Italian bill currently being debated to punish expatriate Italian critics of Fascism by removal of their citizenship and seizure of their property neglects to specify what actual infractions are covered or how the culprits’ guilt will be determined.

The collapse of the Painlevé government in France halted work on a bill to suppress the French Fascisti.

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