There are so many alien Reds being held prisoner on Ellis Island that the government will have to turn a military camp into a concentration camp – their term, not mine.
The US claims Russia is forging foreign currencies and US Liberty Bonds.
The New York branch of the American Legion calls on Congress to suppress radical newspapers.
To overcome immigrants’ resistance to the Census (can’t imagine why they’d be concerned about feds asking them questions), enumerators in Manhattan will take Girl Scouts with them on their rounds.
In Carrigtohill, County Cork, hundreds of Sinn Féiners attack a police barracks. The assault lasts for hours, thanks to the recent hardening of barracks after other such attacks, but a bit of dynamite and the cops are made prisoners and the barracks looted of arms.
The Justice Dept says the Palmer Raids™ have only swept up half the 4,000 foreign Reds for whom warrants have been issued, and they intend to get all of them. Americans are also being swept up, and will supposedly be prosecuted.
By the way, the term Palmer Raids has not yet appeared in the NYT. Does anyone know when it was coined?
Headline That Sounds Dirty But Really Isn’t, Well Not In That Way of the Day -100:
The Cook County sheriff is threatening to force prisoners to watch another execution.
There will be a trial in Nantes, France, this week. So a broker, a police inspector, an orchestra conductor, and a bank cashier beat up a priest, the former Grand Vicar of Syria, the broker using a dog whip, the cop handcuffs, the conductor a rubber band with lead pellets, and the cashier a grooved wooden paddle, and yes, I’m sure there’s something exactly like this on PornHub. Their purpose was to get Abbé Sapounghi to stop his satanic attacks on a woman who used to own a statue of Our Lady of Lourdes which wept tears which could, naturally, cure the sick. Once they’d beaten him and acquired a wax voodoo doll, the woman’s sufferings ceased. Should be an interesting trial, but if I know the NYT, there will be no update to tell us how that went.
I did a Google NGram search. The first reference I found was in an article in the August 17, 1921, issue of The Nation: “Mistakes have been made in Moscow, but as yet nothing to compare with the Palmer raids.”
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like The Nation. Still, "Palmer raids" isn't the same as "Palmer Raids" in stamping them as a discrete historical phenomenon.
ReplyDeleteIn that case, the earliest reference I found is from The Workers Monthly in 1924.
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