Today -100: April 30, 1922: Of partition and plunder, tea pots dome, and police radios

The final meeting of all the sides in (southern) Ireland fails to come to any peace agreement. De Valera rejects a proposal by Griffith and Collins for a referendum on the Anglo-Irish Treaty, I guess because it would only take place in southern Ireland, thus “ratifying” the “partition and plunder act of 1920.”

The Senate orders its Committee on Public Lands to investigate the Tea Pot Dome and Elk Hills oil leases. It will also investigate Interior Secretary Albert Fall’s (false) claim that the leases were necessary because oil companies owning fields next to the government oil fields have been siphoning oil from them.

Paris police cars are getting radios. Do they have the wee woo wee woo sirens yet?

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