Today -100: November 27, 1924: Intense exasperation

Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle’s wife begins divorce proceedings.

Leonard Kip Rhinelander sues for an annulment of his marriage to Alice Jones, claiming she lied that she was white and thus “the consent of said plaintiff to such marriage was obtained by fraud.” Alice says “I will never give up. I love him dearly and he loves me dearly. All the Rhinelander millions cannot take him from me.”

Gen. Italo Balbo, Commander-in-Chief of the Blackshirts, is suing the newspaper La Voce Repubblicana for libel for accusing him of ordering the killing of a priest. They introduce a letter sent by Balbo last year ordering Bolgna Fascists to suggest to Communists that they leave the region and to beat them up “without exaggeration, but systematically” and “in the grand style” until they do so. Balbo admits writing the letter, but says it was in “a moment of intense exasperation.”

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