Today -100: February 23, 1920: Hummmmmm

Anti-Semites, including soldiers, attack a meeting in Berlin, beating up the speaker Hellmut von Gerlach (not a Jew, but a pacifist).

In Iron County, Michigan, a mining area with a lot of wine-loving Italians, cops and sheriffs supported by the county’s state attorney, Martin McDonough, clashed with federal dry officers and took back wine they’d seized without a warrant, and then threatened to arrest them for... transporting liquor. So Major A.V. Dalrymple, Supervisor of Prohibition Enforcement for the Central Division, declares the county to be in revolt against Prohibition and asks permission to lead a military force to crush the rebellion. Attorney General Palmer grants it. Dalrumple promises to “make things hum.”

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