Today -100: August 4, 1921: Really quite a few usual suspects

Headline of the Day -100:  

Judge Learned Hand in Federal District Court in the Southern District of New York decides a case brought by a couple of women who inherited from their German father during the war, who lost their American citizenship when they married Germans. They contend that property seized under the Alien Enemies Act should now be returned to them because Congress declared the war over and they are no longer alien enemies. Hand rules against them without directly addressing the war question. There’s nothing worse than an incomplete Hand job.

Sorry.

Comiskey and other leaders of baseball say they won’t allow the Black Sox players to return, despite their acquittals.

Two black men were in jail after allegedly killing a shopkeeper in Tobacco, Virginia. A mob breaks in and lynches one of them but for some reason leaves the other one alone.

Yugoslavia has now arrested more than 14,000 people for an attempted assassination in June of Prince Alexander.

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