Thursday, November 17, 2022

Today -100: November 17, 1922: Revolution has its rights

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Mussolini speaks before the Chamber of Deputies, demanding it grant him the power to rule by decree through 1923. “He did not appear before...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Today -100: November 16, 1922: Of reactionary relativity, new coups, Brelections, and singing and dancing together

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The Russian Communist Party allegedly rejects Albert Einstein’s theories as reactionary and “the product of the bourgeois class in composit...
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Today -100: November 15, 1922: Gum or gun

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French senators debating women’s suffrage say French women don’t need it because French men treat them so well, though obviously it’s diffe...
Monday, November 14, 2022

Today -100: November 14, 1922: Of free white people, beer, and fascists

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The Supreme Court unanimously rules that Japanese people aren’t “free white people” and therefore can’t become US citizens. Justice Sutherl...
Sunday, November 13, 2022

Today -100: November 13, 1922: Of stupid populations, masks, and flying machines

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More than 1,000 dead in Chilean earthquake + tidal wave. Archbishop Curley of Baltimore says “America... has one of the most stupid popula...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

Today -100: November 12, 1922: I owe Muskogee nothing

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Alice Robertson graciously accepts her defeat in her congressional re-election race, saying when the congressional session is over, she’ll ...
Friday, November 11, 2022

Today -100: November 11, 1922: I would have proclaimed a dictatorship, which I could have done easily

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Headline of the Day -100:   Sir William Horwood, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, is poisoned – in Scotland Yard itself – by a box ...
Thursday, November 10, 2022

Today -100: November 10, 1922: Of disappointments, coercion, Nobels, and wet enthusiasm

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Headline of the Day -100:   Headline of the Day -100:   The Nobel Prizes in physics for 1921 and 1922 are given , respectively, to Albert ...
Wednesday, November 09, 2022

Today -100: November 9, 1922: Of nice little women, farmer-laborers, tittles, and Bavarian Mussolinii (that’s the plural of Mussolini, right?)

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Rep. Alice Robertson (R-Oklahoma), defeated in her bid for re-election, says there was a lot of election cheating. Annie Dickie Olesen blam...
Tuesday, November 08, 2022

Today -100: November 8, 1922: Of elections, klandidates, vampires, and what women’s hands are made for

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So many confident but wrong predictions in today’s NYT reporting of election results. The R’s lose 77 House seats but retain a majority of 2...
Monday, November 07, 2022

Today -100: November 7, 1922: Of malicious lies, leagues of some women voters, bombings, and crowbar governors

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The D.C. District Court overturns the District’s minimum wage law for women, because women are totally equal now. Rural New Hampshire polli...
Sunday, November 06, 2022

Today -100: November 6, 1922: Of royal weddings, vigor, clean living

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Former kaiser Wilhelm’s wedding comes off , a legally mandated Dutch civil ceremony followed by a religious one. He wears a Prussian general...
Saturday, November 05, 2022

Today -100: November 5, 1922: The people have too much money and use it wrongly

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Headline of the Day -100:   I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s the highest-ranking black man in government. There seems to be a high school na...
Friday, November 04, 2022

Today -100: November 4, 1922: Ottoman Empire 1299-1922

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Turkey’s Grand National Assembly deposes the sultan: “The Palace of the Sublime Porte having, through corrupt ignorance, for several centur...
Thursday, November 03, 2022

Today -100: November 3, 1922: Life-destroying confusion is the worst kind of confusion

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I’d forgotten H.G. Wells was standing for Parliament, for the University of London seat. He says he’d support Labour, as “its policy is a p...
Wednesday, November 02, 2022

Today -100: November 2, 1922: Of worthy presses, order, broadcasting tests, and train tracks

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Mussolini says once the present conditions are over, he’ll restore freedom of the press, “on condition that the press proves worthy of libe...
Tuesday, November 01, 2022

Today -100: November 1, 1922: Of frock coats and fascists

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100,000 Fascists march through Rome. Mussolini and the other new ministers take the oath to the king, the Constitution and the laws. After ...
Monday, October 31, 2022

Today -100: October 31, 1922: Revolution of the peculiar and relatively harmless Italian type

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The NYT says of the Fascisti Revolution, “All is over except the shouting.” So much shouting. Mussolini names a Cabinet that’s half Fascis...
Sunday, October 30, 2022

Today -100: October 30, 1922: To Rome

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Italy’s King Victor Emmanuel calls on Benito Mussolini, 39, to form a government. The Fascists’ demands escalated rather quickly over the l...
Saturday, October 29, 2022

Today -100: October 29, 1922: Wherein is revealed the cause of all the abnormality in our daily life

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Italian King Victor Emmanuel rejects the government’s request that he sign a state of siege. And that’s it for representative democracy, fo...