Whatever It Is, I’m Against It

Emma Goldman gets permission to move to Britain from Berlin. In the latest shenanigans in Herrin, Illinois, Sheriff George Galligan and his...

The German Reichstag passes the Railroad bill required to implement the Dawes Plan after days of fighting by Nationalist and Communist depu...

Nathan Leopold promises that if he is executed his last words will be “the last supreme shock of the world.” “I really think I can make it ...

After NY Gov. Al Smith meets with new Tammany boss George Washington Olvany, the latter says Smith is definitely not running for re-electio...

Headline of the Day -100:   Evidently the “Ku Klux Klan issue” is a real head-scratcher for Cal. The Ohio Democratic convention condemns t...

The deadline for Germany to ratify the Dawes Plan is Saturday. Chancellor Wilhelm Marx tells the Reichstag he will ratify it no matter what...

The ZR-3, an airship built for the US Navy by the Zeppelin company in Germany will soon fly to the US. Any stowaways will be thrown over th...

Miriam “Ma” Ferguson is well ahead, so far, as votes are counted in the Texas Democratic primary election for governor. She answers  the qu...

Clarence Darrow at the Leopold n’ Loeb trial: “For God’s sake, if the State in which I live is not kinder, more humane and considerate and ...

VP candidate Charles Dawes refuses to pose for newsreel cameras: “Hell, they’re not going to make a damned movie man out of me!” Headline ...

Sen. Nathanial Dial and his South Carolina Democratic Party primary opponent Insurance Commissioner John McMahan are both arrested at a cam...

NY Mayor John Hylan bans the participation of a mixed group of black & white children in Eugene O’Neill’s All God’s Chillun Got Wings. ...

The NAACP protests the exclusion by the National Woman’s Party of black speakers from the Inez Milholland memorial. “If capitulation to rac...

The National Woman’s Party holds a memorial for its old standard-bearer Inez Milholland (d. 1916) in Lewis, New York in conjunction with th...

Miriam Ferguson, described by the NYT as “a typical Texas woman,” is running for governor in the Democratic primary as the anti-Klan candid...

The house of Magistrate Henry Tennyson of Slovan, Pennsylvania is dynamited in a huge explosion that takes out pretty much every window in ...

Coolidge gives a boring acceptance speech . “The people,” he says, “want a government of common sense.” Has he MET the people? The prosecuti...

The federal government rules that married women employees of the government aren’t allowed to use their maiden names. At the Leopold n’ Loe...

Coolidge declines to respond to John W. Davis’s acceptance speech, with its accusations of Republican corruption. Henry Ford rather belated...

At the Leopold n’ Loeb trial , “More than five minutes was taken up in trying to ascertain the difference between a blush on Loeb’s cheek an...