Today -100: November 26, 1925: I don’t give a damn if he is

France: Paul Doumer, like Briand, fails to form a cabinet, so Édouard Herriot, who was last prime minister in April, will try next.

Texas Gov. Miriam Ferguson celebrates Thanksgiving by pardoning another 105 prisoners, including 27 murderers. Bribes? Maybe. She is under threat of impeachment for incompetence and waste of government funds, and many are criticizing her profligate issuing of pardons, a lot of them for prohibition offenses but including a bunch of murderers as well. One of her opponents in the Legislature, who the NYT annoyingly does not name, says “The next governor of Texas will be a man.” Speaker Lee Satterwhite says if Ferguson refuses to call a special session, he will. He says normally the chivalric men of the Legislature – and only men, although there was one (1) woman in the previous Lege) – wouldn’t pick on a woman, but she isn’t really governor, just “an accident in the Governor’s office... under the domination of her husband,” former impeached governor James Ferguson. Attorney General Dan Moody has advised the Speaker that he has the power to call a special session and that wanton waste (wanton waste is the worst kind of waste) constitutes a ground for impeachment; Attorney General Dan Moody will be the next governor of Texas.

On the witness stand in Rhinelander v. Rhinelander: a chauffeur who drove Kip around and pointed out to him that Alice’s father was a colored man. “I don’t give a damn if he is,” Kip responded.

Incidentally George Jones, Alice Rhinelander’s British-born father, always insists that he is a colored man (or mulatto, as they say in Britain), not a negro. It’s a very important distinction for him.

5 British Communists (including future general secretary Harry Pollitt) are sentenced to 1 year for conspiracy to utter seditious libels and incitement to mutiny. 7 others get 6-month sentences after refusing to promise not to have anything to do with the Communist Party.

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