New airplane speed record: 234 mph, by Joseph Sadi-Lecointe, who will set a bunch of records, join the Resistance, and be tortured to death by the Gestapo in 1944.
Charles Forbes resigns as director of the Veterans’ Bureau. For his health and definitely not because he is being investigated for embezzling from the Bureau on a massive scale or because he was caught selling off medical supplies, was ordered by Harding personally to knock it off, and did not knock it off.
Treasury Sec. Andrew Mellon refuses to tell the House Judiciary Committee about the liquor being brought into the US by foreign diplomats. Supposedly most D.C. bootleggers have diplomatic sources.
A bill before the German Reichstag would ban newspapers reporting on French and Belgian horse races, in retaliation for the Ruhr occupation.
A female anti-prohibition group met NY Gov. Alfred E. Smith. Afterwards, they complain that he failed to rise from his chair to greet them. This is, naturally, front-page news.
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