Today -100: November 5, 1922: The people have too much money and use it wrongly

Headline of the Day -100:  

I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s the highest-ranking black man in government. There seems to be a high school named after him in New Orleans.

Vice President Calvin Coolidge, in a campaign speech in Chicago, says “The people have too much money and use it wrongly. Good living never has been so high nor bad living so low as it is today. The cure, of course, is religion, embodying in conduct the spirit of Christ.”

The deposed Turkish sultan Mohamed VI rejects the Grand National Assembly’s decision, which he says doesn’t represent the will of the nation, and refuses to go.

There are 15 women candidates for the House or Senate. One is Winnifred Mason Huck of Illinois, running in a special election to fill for the rest of the 67th Congress (until March, that is) the seat held by her father until his death last year. She will win, making her the 3rd woman in Congress, along with Mae Nolan, who will likewise fill out her dead husband’s term as rep for California’s 5th district. Nolan will also run for re-election and become the only woman in the 68th Congress. The first 4 women in Congress, including Alice Robertson, who will lose her re-election bid this week, are all Republicans.

The Times thinks Adelina Otero-Warren, running for Congress from New Mexico, another Republican, will also win. That’s wrong, but she is the first Latina to run for Congress (the first to actually win, Barbara Vucanovich, will be elected 60 years later).

All 48 states now have at least one radio broadcaster.

The British Broadcasting Company begins broadcasting. It gives the news & weather, then repeats them so listeners can take notes. The BBC of course later banned hesitation, repetition or deviation.

Nauseating Headline of the Day -100:  

By Alice Rohe, who interviews Mussolini, says his big nose is “suggestive of power” and seems thoroughly entranced by him, at least until he tells her women are inferior to men. In the ‘30s she will write “Why I Fled Italy” for the Reader’s Digest.

The movie The Headless Horseman premieres, starring... Will Rogers?

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