Today -100: November 15, 1922: Gum or gun

French senators debating women’s suffrage say French women don’t need it because French men treat them so well, though obviously it’s different for British and American women. But the big argument, as always, is that women would be told how to vote by their priests. And thanks to the, you know, war, there are 1.8 million more women than men.

Germany: Joseph Wirth’s cabinet falls after Gustav Streseman’s right-wing People’s Party (DVP) demands greater representation in the coalition government and the Socialists refuse.

Secretary of War John Weeks says the US could afford the 150,000-man army he wants if everyone just cut back on chewing gum.

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