Today -100: August 2, 1925: The word “undesirable” was just sitting there

Eugene O’Neill’s “Desire Under the Elms” is banned in Britain by the Lord Chamberlain, who calls it “abhorrent.”

Count Antonio Cippico, Italian Fascist senator and Italian delegate to the League of Nations, says Fascism is “remolding the national soul of the Italians by severe discipline.” He says Italy’s territory is “insufficient to support her people,” so it requires either new colonies (its “share” of Germany’s former colonies) or for its emigrants need to live in other countries as groups and without losing their Italian citizenship.

Spain has its first ever divorce, that of the Baron and Baroness de Valasco.

There are something like 100,000 refrigerators in homes in the US.

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