The Republican National Convention holds its first 4 ballots. Gen. Leonard Wood topped all 4, with Illinois Gov. Frank Lowden not too far behind, and Hiram Johnson and Warren G. Harding well behind. Wood has the Old Guard Republicans strongly opposed to him, I guess because of his close military and political association with Theodore Roosevelt, so his potential support in the convention has a natural ceiling. And more and more information is leaking out about how much money Lowden is spending to buy the nomination, which doesn’t look good (a lot of it is his own money, or his wife’s – he married into the Pullman railroad family).
One tricky thing for Harding is that the deadline for filing for re-election to the Senate was yesterday. He filed.
Austria’s government, led by Karl Renner, resigns.
Agatha Christie Pastiche of the Day -100:
Actually, looking it up, I find that this case is considered the inspiration for the genre of locked-room mysteries. It was never solved.
Sneaking a peek a few chapters into the future:
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