Today -100: May 2, 1925: Of non-riots, tunnels, subversive opinion and unscrupulous propaganda, and circuses

Yesterday was May Day and, sadly, there were no proper riots anywhere.

Coolidge wants business to be “undisturbed” by the government during the congressional recess (until December), with no announcements or agitation. He’ll be leading his fellow politicians by example by taking a six-week vacation during which he will say and do nothing.

Bulgaria claims to have thwarted another attempt to assassinate Tsar Boris by tunneling under the royal palace and blowing it up, as you do.

British Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill gives a speech complaining about “subversive opinion and unscrupulous propaganda” coming from outside the country (from you-know-where). He accuses the Labour Party, which he calls the Socialist Party, of “having needlessly and wantonly corrupted...” – that’s the worst kind of corrupting – “...large masses of the British nation” with doctrines that would “starve a large proportion of the population of this crowded island.”

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Al Smith and the freaks. But I repeat myself. No explanation is given for his failure to bring any girls. Aren’t they entitled to gape at the freaks as well?

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