Today -100: February 20, 1926: Of whiskey, minor Georgians, and things not to do under the elms

Coolidge nixes the idea of the federal government buying up all the medicinal whiskey.

Georgia Attorney General George Napier says that the marriages of Georgians (mostly minors) who elope to other states to evade Georgia’s 1924 law requiring 5 days’ notice before a marriage license is issued will not be recognized by Georgia. This will affect hundreds of marriages.

The LAPD arrest the cast – all of it – of a production of Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms on a charge of obscenity. At least the vice squad lets the performance finish before sweeping in, after consulting with members of the PTA, the Board of Education, and some ministers they brought along.

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