Today -100: February 24, 1926: Going on a jolly

Pres. Coolidge opposes the US having a large air force because 1) he’s a cheapskate, 2) he doesn’t want a global arms race.

A Prussian Diet investigating committee finds that the Black Reichswehr murders of supposed traitors within the paramilitary body were ordered by 3 deputies in the Diet. The convicted assassin Robert Grütte-Lehder also claims that the prosecutor in his closed-door trial suppressed evidence of the deputies’ involvement.

Badly Written Headline of the Day -100:

500 German women send proposals to professional hunger artist “Jolly” (real name: Siegfried Herz), who has been sitting in a glass box in Berlin restaurant The Crocodile for a week without eating. He will continue for a total of 44 days. Presumably the women are interested in marrying him “as means of cutting down kitchen drudgery.”

Madrid bans the killing of horses by bulls in bull fights.

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