Today -100: November 25, 1925: First they say she said too much, and now they say she said nothing

France: Aristide Briand fails to form a cabinet. Leon Blum was asking for more ministries for the Socialists than Briand was willing to give. Paul Doumer will make the next attempt.

French Pres. Gaston Doumergue cancels the official reception for the new Russian ambassador, Christian Rakovsky, who has been insisting that the Garde Republicain Band play the Internationale at the event.

Kip Rhinelander’s lawyer asks to amend the charge against Alice Rhinelander from positive fraud to negative fraud. They’re no longer claiming that the Kipster didn’t realize she had negro blood but that she should have told him – nay, was required to tell him – that she was not white. Her lawyer responds, “First they say she said too much, and now they say she said nothing.”

Leonard Kip Rhinelander’s name has been removed from the 1926 edition of the New York Social Register.

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