Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Today -100: February 17, 1926: Semi-legal points are the most semi kind of legal points, or something


Labor Secretary James Davis postpones his Florida vacation so he can review Vera, Countess Cathcart’s appeal of her deportation order and consider the “semi-legal” question of whether adultery counts as “moral turpitude” for the purposes of the 1917 Immigration Act.

Two Hungarian officers, members of a thuggy right-wing group, try to assassinate former justice minister and current Member of Parliament Vilmos Vázsonyi, who has been pushing an investigation into the plot to counterfeit French francs to fund a royalist coup.

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