Today -100: October 28, 1925: What sort of monster turns down a free apple pie?

Since the French Cabinet can’t force Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux to resign when he rejects a capital levy, the whole Cabinet resigns in order to form a new government without him, even though there is no way a capital levy would pass the Senate. Caillaux had also become stalemated with Washington on a plan to repay France’s war debt.

The League of Nations plans to create some sort of Balkans security pact.

A Paris court overrules the Duke of Bisaccia’s veto on his son marrying an actress, the father’s permission normally being needed for under-25s. The court says actresses are perfectly respectable now so there’s no cause for objection.

Brig. Gen. Lincoln Andrews, the assistant Treasury secretary in charge of Prohibition enforcement, complains that Congress made his job impossible by allowing sacramental wine to be sold for profit.

Coolidge turns down an offer from Vermont University’s Girls’ Club of an apple pie for the White House Thanksgiving dinner, possibly because it would be seen as an endorsement of the proposal for an Apple Week, which would be a precedent forcing him to endorse all sorts of fruit-based weeks.

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