Today -100: April 15, 1922: Of debts, the our Courts, and short skirts

At the Genoa Conference, Russia is refusing to take dictation from the other countries, which had assumed that Russia’s need for foreign loans put them in control. Russia keeps bringing up the issue of the compensation for damage during the war which they could have demanded from the Central Powers and for damage caused by Allies-backed Whites during the Civil War, as a counter-balance, or something, for the war debts it owes.

IRAers seize Dublin’s law courts and a nearby hotel. Commandant Gen. Rory O’Connor says this isn’t a coup, they just needed the room.

A high school board election in Kansas is fought on the issue of skirt lengths, with Perry Stevens, defending the 3-inches-below-the-knee rule, defeating Seth Fenton, who thinks the rule is a blow at national liberties.

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