Tuesday, February 07, 2023

Today -100: February 7, 1923: Of bitter opposition, boy kings, moral resistance & hostile bayonets, and bunnies


Headline of the Day -100:  


Hiram Johnson and Fightin’ Bob La Follette are expected to challenge him in the primaries. Bitterly, I guess.

They’ve just figured out that King Tut was a boy. Not much was known about him before his tomb was opened.

12,000 people died from automobile accidents in the US in 1922.

France is trying to recruit Poles in the Ruhr to work as strikebreakers in the mines. So Germany orders them to either become German citizens or return to Poland.

German Chancellor Wilhelm Cuno visits the Ruhr and says the resistance is going swimmingly. “This moral resistance is the result of the spontaneous resolve of a people fully conscious of its human rights and determined not to bow down before hostile bayonets.” Hostile bayonets are the worst kind.

The Italian Chamber of Deputies ratifies the Washington disarmament treaties. Since Mussolini told them to, they do it without debate or objection.

Mussolini is using the Communist Internationale’s declaration of anti-fascist struggle as an excuse to arrest hundreds of Communists and seize their funds.

Mississippi Governor Lee M. Russell prevailed last year in a lawsuit brought by his secretary after he impregnated her and forced her to get an abortion. Former (and future) Gov. Theodore Bilbo, who failed to show up to be a witness, is now arrested for contempt. 

Dr. Bunnie McKoin, the former mayor of Mer Rouge, Louisiana, who fled to Johns Hopkins after stirring up those Klan murders, is asked by Johns Hopkins to fuck off.

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