Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Today -100: January 31, 1924: Indisposed

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Headline of the Day -100:   Speaking of indisposed, the Senate Teapot Dome committee appoints 3 doctors to see if former Interior Sec. Alb...
Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Today -100: January 30, 1924: No colonies, no remedies

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Eleftherios Venizelos has another heart attack while debating opposition leader Alexandros Papanastasiou in the Greek National Assembly abo...
Monday, January 29, 2024

Today -100: January 29, 1924: Of special counsels, noisy but negligible minorities, and have you driven a Ford lately, comrade?

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The Senate passes a resolution calling on Coolidge to fire Navy Sec. Edwin Denby and any other Navy personnel who did bad shit in the Teapo...
Sunday, January 28, 2024

Today -100: January 28, 1924: Of cold funerals, reeds, and Fiume

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Walter Duranty of the NYT reports that Lenin’s funeral is really cold, so cold, did I mention how cold it was? Sen. James Reed of Missouri...
Saturday, January 27, 2024

Today -100: January 27, 1924: Shall the United States have corrupt government or clean government?

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Pres. Coolidge issues a statement saying he has the Justice Dept observing the Senate Teapot Dome inquiry, and will prosecute anyone who ne...
Friday, January 26, 2024

Today -100: January 26, 1924: Of loans (or “loans”)

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Harry Sinclair’s personal attorney tells the Senate Teapot Dome hearings that last year Sinclair loaned (or “loaned”) $25,000 in Liberty bo...
Thursday, January 25, 2024

Today -100: January 25, 1924: Poodles defended

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Oil tycoon Edward Doheny admits to the Senate Teapot Dome inquiry that he loaned $100,000 to Interior Secretary Albert Fall in 1921, shortl...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Today -100: January 24, 1924: Evolution!

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The North Carolina Board of Education votes to ban the teaching of evolution. Don't see comments? Click on the post title to view or...
Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Today -100: January 23, 1924: Lenin RIP

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Vladimir Lenin dies . The NYT ’s  Walter Duranty predicts that Stalin and Trotsky will “bury the hatchet over his grave.” Headline of the D...
Monday, January 22, 2024

Today -100: January 22, 1924: Six or eight cows

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The Senate Teapot Dome inquiry heats up , with Archie Roosevelt, son of Pres. TR, testifying. Archie was a vice president with a Sinclair Oi...
Sunday, January 21, 2024

Today -100: January 21, 1924: Of blockades and lack of confidence

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Winston Churchill still wants Parliament to delay voting no confidence in the Baldwin government, and then when it does to make that vote a...
Saturday, January 20, 2024

Today -100: January 20, 1924: Whether there is land there or not it should be the property of the United States

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Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby tells the House Naval Affairs Committee that the real purpose of sending the dirigible USS Shenandoah to...
Friday, January 19, 2024

Today -100: January 19, 1924: Of faulty actresses and tankers

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Mabel Normand is in a state of complete nervous collapse, please excuse her from attending the hearing in the case of her chauffeur shootin...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

Today -100: January 18, 1924: It would be a waste of time to indulge in the thankless task of slaying a suicide

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The crew of the dirigible USS Shenandoah think that surviving that gale means it can totally fly to the Arctic (Spoiler Alert: the USS Shen...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Today -100: January 17, 1924: There is no such thing as liberty without observance of the law

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At the White House, Pres. Coolidge declares to delegates of the Anti-Saloon League annual convention, “there is no such thing as liberty wi...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Today -100: January 16, 1924: Vigorously resented

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The Democrats choose New York City for their Convention. It came down to a bidding war, because the party still has a deficit from the 1920...
Monday, January 15, 2024

Today -100: January 15, 1924: Of drivers’ licenses and the Klan issue in Louisiana

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NY Gov. Al Smith points out to the Legislature that NY is behind other states in setting automobile regulations. He suggests a statewide sy...
Sunday, January 14, 2024

Today -100: January 14, 1924: Of conventions, valets, states, and cynical allusions

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The DNC is about to pick a site for the Convention, and William Gibbs McAdoo’s backers are fighting the choices of machine-ridden Chicago o...
Saturday, January 13, 2024

Today -100: January 13, 1924: In which is revealed what were the best contracts the United States government ever made

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The British railway engineers & firemen union says it will order a strike, but won’t say when. Which is embarrassing for the Labour Par...
Friday, January 12, 2024

Today -100: January 12, 1924: The King’s Peach

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The British Cabinet decides that the King’s Speech can’t be broadcast on radio, since it’s a political speech (written by the party current...