Today -100: February 12, 1923: Of clear fields, exports, and legs

Republican Party leaders, mostly senators, hold conferences which seem to result in Sen. Hiram Johnson agreeing not to run for president in 1924, clearing the field for Harding, should he happen to be alive.

The Turks reverse their reversal, giving Allied ships 3 days to get out of Smyrna.

France says it will ban all exports from the Ruhr to Germany proper. So that’s most of Germany’s steel and iron, to say nothing of coal.

In Essen, Germans throw stones at a restaurant where French and Belgian officers are eating. A movement is growing to refuse service to Frenchies & Belgies, who are threatening to close all establishments which don’t serve them.

Some idiot says he’s invented an automobile with legs.

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