NYC Mayor John Hylan says he’ll return to private life, almost as if the voters gave him any choice in the matter. There’s some talk about the Hearst papers, which backed Hylan, pushing a 3rd-party run by Fiorello LaGuardia, who is not disavowing it at this time.
Robert La Follette Jr., 30, easily wins the Wisconsin Republican Party primary for his late father’s US Senate seat, rattling establishment Republicans. The party apparatus will not support him in the general.
There’s been some fuss over British Labour/Communist MP Shapurji Saklatvala’s plans to come to the US as part of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Washington D.C., with some MPs refusing to come if he does. Now, Secretary of State Frank Kellogg revokes his visa, citing his “inflammatory and revolutionary speeches.” Saklatvala was the first Indian member of the British Parliament.
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I'm sure it was an oversight, but you seemed to have missed the unveiling of the Harding International Good-Will Memorial in Vancouver, B.C. Harding stopped there on his way back from Alaska, and died the next week. The "Vancouver is Awesome" website: "So why does Vancouver have a rather impressive memorial to American President Warren G. Harding, widely regarded as one of the worst presidents of all time, and who served just over two years?...By 1948 he was already regarded as one of, if not the, worst presidents of all time by scholars. In major scholarly rankings, since 1948 he's been ranked the worst president of all time at least nine times. The highest he's ranked is 29th, but that's when there had only been 29 presidents. At best, Harding was ranked 37th out of 44. In 2022 he was ranked 42, one ahead of Donald Trump."
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