Today -100: October 1, 1925: Of bumbling amateurs, pomp, debt, dust, bad beer, and large underwear

At the presidential board of inquiry into recent Navy aircraft disasters, Col. Billy Mitchell blames the crash of the Shenandoah on “bumbling amateurs,” which are the worst kind of amateurs.

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The German president doesn’t want a fuss made over his 78th birthday tomorrow. No parades, no flags. The far-right nationalists had intended to exploit his birthday for far-right nationalist propaganda.

France counter-counter-proposes paying $6.2 billion of war debt to the US over 67 years. 

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