Texas Attorney Gen. Dan Moody, who is not a fan of the governors Ferguson, seems to kill the idea of a special session to impeach Gov. Miriam, saying it’s against public policy to have a privately funded session. So a special session could only be held if the legislators pay their own expenses, and we know that ain’t gonna happen. But if the impeachment movement is sputtering, it’s probably because the governors Ferguson have been leaking that they won’t be running for re-election (she will, though, and will lose humiliatingly to Dan Moody). Also, the grand jury has yet to weigh in.
Mussolini calls for schools to be “inspired by the ideals of Fascism.” Aren’t they all? “It is not necessary to burden the mind with infinite notions which can never be remembered, which leave nothing worth while.”
German Chancellor Hans Luther and his Cabinet resign. No one else wants the job, so Luther will probably retain it.
The Rhinelander v. Rhinelander jury refuses to annul their marriage, denying Kip’s charge that Alice R. tricked him into marriage by racial fraud. Alice will now demand alimony and attorneys’ fees. A reporter asks if she still loves her husband and she says “I do and I don’t.” Jurors insist to reporters that racial prejudice did not enter into their deliberations.
So the Rhinelanders are still married but won’t, I think, ever meet again. His lawyers will appeal the ruling for a couple of year and fail. In 1929 she’ll sue Kip’s father Philip for alienation of affections (Kip was legally obligated to support his wife, but didn’t). He’ll try to get a Nevada divorce, but New York State won’t recognize it because she was not present. She will then file suit in NY for separation, finally forcing the family to negotiate with her, paying her $31,500 (most of which went to her lawyers, as is the custom) plus $3,800 a year in exchange for an NDA and giving up the right to use the name “Rhinelander” (it will, however, appear on her grave stone). Leonard died in 1936 at 32 of pneumonia. He didn’t re-marry; neither did Alice, who died in 1989.
W. E. B. DuBois will point out that “if Rhinelander had used this girl as concubine or prostitute, white America would have raised no word of protest; white periodicals would have printed no headlines, white ministers would have said no single word. It is when he legally and decently marries the girl that Hell breaks loose and literally tears the pair apart.”
There’s a detail I haven’t managed to shoehorn in yet: 40 years before all this, Kip’s uncle William (brother of Philip) married an Irish servant, to a horrified social and familial reaction that will sound familiar. The family sent a lawyer to try to bribe his wife to go back to Ireland. William shot the lawyer in the shoulder, which resulted in his death 6 months later, but William was never charged.
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