Some NYT article links are currently redirecting to a generic page (and it’s getting worse), so no links below for those stories.
British Prime Minister David Lloyd George plans to propose at the Genoa conference a 10-year truce throughout Europe.
There’s an article in the Sunday NYT by William Jennings Bryan setting out his views on evolution. Did you know there is “not one syllable in the Bible” to support “Darwin’s guess”?
On the 4th anniversary of the Red Army, Russian War Minister Trotsky says Russia’s fate is “now balancing over” the forthcoming Genoa economic & financial conference (which looks like being postponed), and if the conference doesn’t go favorably for Russia, the balance may have to be tipped with blood, so the Red Army will need to be built up before the conference starts. I have no idea what he’s actually threatening here, to be honest.
In the first half of 1921, the German birth rate was 3 times that of France.
It’s estimated there are 12,588,949 automobiles in the world, of which 10,505,660 are in United States.
Half as many pianos were sold in the US in 1921 as in 1913, and no one knows why.
West Point cadets put on a play. It is called “Ho, Ho, Jose,” a “Cuban extravaganza.” One assumes it is super-racist.
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