Today -100: April 30, 1920: Of scrubs, May days, and joy rides

Pro- and anti-Sinn Féin crowds clash violently outside Wormwood Scrubs Prison. And Sinn Féiners blow up a police barracks only 10 miles from Dublin.

Attorney Gen. A. Mitchell Palmer claims there is a Red plot to assassinate many many many political leaders and others on May Day. He thinks all his arrests and deportations have thwarted this nefarious nation-wide plot. Also, he says, there’s a plot for a general strike, in conjunction with European leaders. All aimed at forcing peace with Russia.

Pres. Wilson takes his longest car ride since his stroke and doesn’t bring along his doctor.

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