Today -100: June 17, 1920: Of coalitions, sociologists, and national athems

Constantin Fehrenbach will be the next German chancellor, heading a coalition of his Catholic Zentrum Party, the Democrats (DDP), and the People’s Party (DVP), with the Socialists outside the government but neutral towards it.

Sociologist Max Weber dies of Spanish Flu at 56.

The Catholic archbishop of Melbourne, Daniel Mannix, is coming to the US, but some of the passengers on his ship are trying to get him barred because he failed to stand up for the US national anthem in Honolulu harbor. Immigration officials say there’s no law making that an excludable offense. (A later denial filed with the State Dept says he did stand but didn’t sing, not knowing the words. He did, however, remain seated during the British anthem, being Irish.)

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