Whatever It Is, I’m Against It

Intervention by British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin may have postponed an imminent coal strike, with the 13% wage reductions the owners ...

Sigmund Freud will head an international psychoanalytical foundation, aimed in part at stopping “the practice of psychoanalysis by quacks.”...

Sub-Hed of the Day -100: William Jennings Bryan’s body on display in Dayton, land of the simple folk. The text of his undelivered closing s...

Isabelle La Follette, widow of Fightin’ Bob, declines to stand for his vacant Senate seat. Fightin’ Bob Jr. probably will run. The Italian ...

William Jennings Bryan, 65, dies in his sleep in Dayton, napping after church. He’s been making soooo many speeches since the end of the tr...

Poland will force out the 15,000 ethnic Germans who voted for German citizenship in the plebiscite in Upper Silesia in 1921 (no secret ball...

Count Antonio Cippico, an Italian Fascist senator and Italian delegate to the League of Nations, lectures at the Institute of Politics, def...

Earlier this month, Russia executed Prince Nikolai Golitsyn, 75, the last prime minister before the February Revolution, for alleged monarc...

New York City Mayor John Hylan vehemently rejects the offer from fellow Democrats of a state Supreme Court seat in exchange for ending his ...

The Scopes trial was supposed to resume today with a continuation of Clarence Darrow’s questioning of William Jennings Bryan, but Judge Raul...

At the Monkey Trial, Clarence Darrow surprises William Jennings Bryan by calling him to the stand as a witness for the defense as an allege...

John Scopes says the Fundamentalists also don’t like him because he smokes and (gasp) dances. He says the trial is defeating the purpose of...

The Colorado Ku Klux Klan is in conflict with the national Klan, which is trying to force out its grand dragon. 40,000 kluxers have resigne...

Scopes trial judge John Raulston rules out expert testimony on evolution, saying the only question is whether Scopes taught evolution. He o...

Walter White (ahem), the superintendent of schools of Rhea County, Tennessee, which contains Dayton, proposes a Fundamentalist college to b...

At the Scopes trial, Dudley Field Malone denies that the theory of evolution conflicts with the Bible.  Since only one member of the Scopes...

The Scopes defense team objects again to the prayers opening the trial. Judge Raulston says he’ll leave the choice of preachers up to the l...

Clarence Darrow (after objecting to the prayer at the opening of the court) “thunders” his first speech (transcript) of the Scopes Monkey ...

Tennessee hill folk (“queer fish,” the NYT calls them) flock into Dayton from all over the state to listen to William Jennings Bryan as he...

NYC Mayor John Hylan denies that it’s New York garbage washing up on NJ beaches, says it’s garbage dumped by ships. On Monday (this is Satu...