Today -100: June 23, 1920: Of earthquakes, sad prodigies, and tug of war

A bunch of earthquakes hit LA, but most of the damage is confined to Inglewood, which doesn’t count.

Oh, and one woman “dies of fright.”

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With the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco just days away, there isn’t much consensus about a presidential candidate – just like the R’s at the start of their convention. There are still people who think Wilson might run for a third time and there are still people promoting William Gibbs McAdoo as the strongest candidate, despite his refusal to run. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer is a strongish candidate, possibly with NY Gov. Alfred E. Smith as his running mate, a wet to balance Palmer’s dry stance (would that make that ticket “moist”?). And Tammany Hall is pushing Ohio’s Gov. Cox. But a lot of the behind-the-scenes work is focused on preventing a plank, any plank, on the prohibition question.

A delegation from the National Woman’s Party meets Sen. Harding, who refuses to lift a finger to request that the Republican governors of Vermont and Connecticut call special sessions of their legislatures to ratify the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. Unless of course those governors ask him for his opinion. A disappointed Alice Paul asks what’s the point of the suffrage plank in the R. platform if it can’t be put into effect in Republican states.

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That’s 8-year-old Samuel Reshevsky, future 8-time US Chess champeen, winning 12 simultaneous games of chess,

but his father won’t let him play on a carnival ride.

The 1920 Olympics will have tug of war. In fact, it’ll be the last time the Olympics have tug of war.

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