Monday, July 20, 2020

Today -100: July 20, 1920: Of cork night terrors, non-lynchings, and slappeys


Russia responds to Britain’s offer to facilitate peace talks between Poland and Russia by telling the Brits, who for some reason they don’t consider neutral arbiters, to butt out.

Headline of the Day -100: 


Also in Cork, of 296 jurors called for the Court of Assizes, only 12 show up after Sinn Féin orders them not to attend the “English court.”

Those National Guard machine-gunners sent to Graham, North Carolina to prevent a lynching actually open fire on a lynch mob, killing one and wounding two. Wow.

What Not To See:


Based on Cohen’s short stories in the Saturday Evening Post about bumbling black detective Florian Slappey, it is “distinctly a negro comedy for white folks”.  “The cast is scrupulously defined on the program as ‘the white players,’ lest there be any mistake about it.”


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