Friday, January 23, 2026

Today -100: January 23, 1926: Is it any wonder that banditry, murder, bribery and corruption flourish?


New US Attorney General John G. Sargent tells a New York State Bar Association meeting that violating Prohibition law is a gateway drug, as it were, to the breaking of other laws. People who insist on their right to have a drink are “bribing” bootleggers to risk breaking the law, but what is to stop those bootleggers deciding there’s more money in robbing their customers, possibly with lethal force? “Is it any wonder that banditry, murder, bribery and corruption flourish?”

John Logie Baird has perfected television (aka televisor). It’s pretty blurry, but it does include sound.

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