Saturday, June 20, 2020

Today -100: June 20, 1920: Of breweries, hirams, and twinks


Running for president is so darned inconvenient. Harding cancels his golfing vacation. He admits that he used to own shares in a brewery, but says he was just helping out a small business in Marion.

William Randolph Hearst calls for the creation of a new political party to back a Hiram Johnson run. Johnson himself still hasn’t come out in support of Harding.

Police in County Leitrim, Ireland respond to being refused service by a shop following the IRA’s boycott order by returning, helping themselves to goods, paying, then escaping in their motor vehicles from the angry crowd that had gathered. In the north, a two-hour gun fight between Nationalists and Unionists in Derry/Londonderry is finally broken up by the arrival of the military.

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