Calvin Coolidge meets Will Rogers for 10 minutes at the White House. Afterwards, Rogers says Cal does have a sense of humor and has “some good ones,” but gives no examples. (I do know that Cal liked to buzz for the Secret Service, then hide under his desk while hilarity ensued).
5 British Fascisti are acquitted for the kidnapping last month of Harry Pollitt to keep him from a Communist-adjacent conference. I guess they portrayed it as a jolly jape and the jury swallowed it.
Fayette Avery McKenzie resigns as president of historically black Fisk University. He’s spent his presidency cracking down on the students, closing their newspaper, abolishing the student council, banning students from walking with students of the opposite sex, etc., and students and alumni are suggesting maybe replacing him with an actual black person. The first black president will in fact take office in 1947.
Wilson Godfrey Harvey, governor of South Carolina for 8 months in 1922-3, is convicted of violating banking laws at his Enterprise Bank (possibly for accepting deposits after he knew the bank was going bankrupt) and sentenced to either 4 months in the pokey or a fine of $400. He opts for the latter.
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