Today -100: February 13, 1926: Of coal and straw hats

The anthracite coal strike is indeed over, after half a year. Miners will return to work this week on the exact terms they had before, without the wage reductions and compulsory arbitration the mineowners tried to force on them. Coolidge, as was the custom, was no help at all.

Pres. Coolidge orders tariffs on imported straw hats (mostly from Italy) worth more than $9.50 increased from 60% to 88%. 1) $9.50? For a straw hat? Why, that’s the equivalent of some money! SOME MONEY. 2) Taxing the most 1920s of all hats? I dunno.

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