There were no revolutionary outbreaks, bombings, or assassinations in New York on May Day, which the NYT naturally attributes entirely to the “extraordinary precautionary measures taken by the Federal authorities and the police to hold the forces of disorder in check.” The feds are happy to accept credit. “While the night is not over, it looks as if the expected disturbances had been headed off,” says J. Edgar Hoover.
Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby has a message from Pres. Wilson for the New York Press Club’s dinner: “he is rapidly recovering that vigor of mind that has always been his.” So he’s getting back what he never lost. Got it.
The Sunday NYT has a review of Lothrop Stoddard’s The Rising Tide of Color; The Threat Against White World Supremacy.
(he will later write The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace of the Under-Man [1922], which actually sounds even more racist and introduced the concept of the untermensch, which the Nazis adopted as their own). The book does what it says on the tin, raising fears that the White Man’s day is over, thanks to the Great War and rising non-white birth rates, and advocating ending all non-white immigration (yes, including Jews). He thinks Europeans should pull out of their Asian colonies and defend the racial battlements in Africa and Latin America (which is threatened with takeover by the Japanese, or something). Warren Harding will quote the book approvingly.
The Brooklyn Robins and the Boston Braves play 26 innings, which is still a major league baseball record, before being called on account of darkness. The score is 1-1. “The less hardy of the fans began to show signs of the strain by moving restlessly in their seats and babbling about perpetual motion and eternity.”
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No word on how brave the bride was.
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