Whatever It Is, I’m Against It

Tammany’s candidate J.J. (“Jimmy”) Walker, 44, is elected mayor of New York, part of a Democratic sweep. The NYT looks to Walker for “a sh...

The German Ministry of Health bans skyscrapers (buildings taller than 5 stories) in Berlin, because they are unhealthy, obstructing light a...

José Santos Chocano, the poet-laureate of Peru, shoots to death a journalist for writing articles about him. A pamphlet called “Fascist Cat...

Ku Klux Klan leader D.C. Stephenson’s trial for the kidnapping and assault & battery of Madge Oberholtzer hears her dying statement, af...

The ending of the Greco-Bulgar war is considered a triumph and proof of concept of the League of Nations, though Britain’s threat to blocka...

Greek troops evacuate Bulgaria by the time set by the League of Nations, which appoints a commission of inquiry to figure out who, human or...

Paul Painlevé forms a new cabinet, becoming finance minister in place of Caillaux as well as prime minister. Greece says its troops are ou...

Since the French Cabinet can’t force Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux to resign when he rejects a capital levy, the whole Cabinet resigns i...

The League of Nations orders Greece and Bulgaria 24 hours to order the removal of their troops from each other’s territory and 60 hours to ...

Greece and Bulgaria both agree to do whatever the League of Nations tells them to do. Still no mention of the “stray dog” thing in the NYT ...

Pres. Coolidge tells the international convention of the YMCA that parents in this country suck and should exercise more control over their...

French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, as president of the League of Nations Council, politely suggests to Greece and Bulgaria that they ...

War of the Stray Dog News: Greece invades Bulgaria, occupying posts and shelling villages (well, at least one village). Greece, claiming Bu...

Greece demands Bulgaria pay an indemnity of 2 million French francs gold, which is the equivalent of some money, for what they describe as ...

Hungary starts censoring crossword puzzles after one in a royalist newspaper has the solution “Long Live Otto” (the 12-year-old Habsburg pr...

Treasury Sec. Andrew Mellon proposes lowering the maximum income tax, reducing taxes at every income level, eliminating federal inheritance...

The Soviet Union, at least as expressed in Izvestiya and Pravda , considers Locarno to have been a victory primarily for Britain, which now...

French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand says the phrase “allied powers” must no longer be used, thanks to Locarno reuniting Europe in peace...

French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand says the Locarno Conference lays the foundations for the United States of Europe. Hurrah! In Locarn...

Mussolini unexpectedly turns up at the Locarno Conference. Wants to be at the signing ceremony, I guess. He’s being asked by the Swiss auth...