Today -100: October 29, 1925: Fascist molecules?

Paul Painlevé forms a new cabinet, becoming finance minister in place of Caillaux as well as prime minister.

Greece says its troops are out of Bulgaria, Bulgaria says they’re not. Greece accuses Bulgarian troops of attacking the evacuating Greeks.

Still no mention of the “stray dog” thing.

Anti-Fascists protest a Fascist celebration of the 3rd anniversary of the March on Rome at the Hotel Pennsylvania on 7th Ave. in NYC (you know its phone number).

Mussolini celebrates on horseback, because of course he does. He tells an audience in Milan, “Every one of you must consider himself a soldier, a molecule, feeling and pulsating with the entire organism.”

It’s a tiny story in today’s paper, but the feds are hunting James Durkin, a suspected Chicago car thief who shot and killed Bureau of Investigation (proto-FBI) agent Edwin Shanahan, who was following him. This is the first BOI agent killed in the line of duty. It will take the feds 3 months to catch Durkin. He will then be tried by an Illinois court because killing a federal officer was not yet a federal crime. He’ll be released in 1954 and die in 1981.

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