Sunday, January 18, 2026

Today -100: January 18, 1926: Of scandalous tissues of falsehoods and overcoats


New York Republicans hold a conference and agree to accede to much of Gov. Al Smith’s agenda, because they’re afraid that otherwise he’ll run for re-election.

Mussolini says the Aventine deputies, who yesterday attempted to end their boycott of the Chamber of Deputies only to be chased out, will only be allowed to return to their seats if they admit that their accusations against him are “a scandalous tissue of falsehoods,” accept the Fascist revolution as an accomplished fact and abandon all resistance to it, renounce anti-Fascists operating outside of Italy, etc.

The Soviet film agency invites Charlie Chaplin to come and make a film of Gogol’s short story “The Overcoat.”

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