Whatever It Is, I’m Against It

Coolidge’s Aircraft Board of Inquiry rejects  Billy Mitchell’s call for a unified Air Force, continuing the existing system of separate army...

Texas Gov. Miriam “Ma” Ferguson offers  a $500 reward for the arrest and conviction of any Texan for violation of prohibition laws – if they...

The German Reichstag ratifies  the Locarno treaties, 291 to 174, and authorizes the government to apply for membership in the League of Nati...

Édouard Herriot fails  to form a Cabinet (in bargaining with him, the Socialists rather overplayed their hand), so Aristide Briand is given ...

France: Paul Doumer, like Briand, fails  to form a cabinet, so Édouard Herriot, who was last prime minister in April, will try next. Texas G...

France: Aristide Briand fails to form a cabinet. Leon Blum was asking for more ministries for the Socialists than Briand was willing to giv...

Bryn Mawr College’s Self-Government Association (i.e., the student body) calls for  students to be allowed to smoke. The president agrees, ...

France: the government of Paul Painlevé loses a vote of confidence in Parliament, the right wing and the Communists joining forces to defea...

The Rhinelander v. Rhinelander case was abruptly adjourned Thursday after Alice’s lawyers blatantly attempted to blackmail young Kip, showin...

Queen Mother Alexandra, the Denmark-born widow of Edward VII, dies at 80. Coolidge calls for prosecutions of users of alcohol and not just ...

At the dinner of the NY State Chamber of Commerce, Pres. Coolidge (also broadcast over the radio) calls for the US to join the World Court....

The British House of Commons ratifies the Locarno Treaty in what is being called “the spirit of Locarno,” meaning a European desire for end...

Headline of the Day -100: A French expedition plans to reach the North Pole next year utilizing motorized amphibious sledges, some of them ...

Rhinelander v. Rhinelander: the reading of Alice’s letters to Kip concludes after 4 loooong days. The jury is bored; other people’s love le...

Sen. William Borah (R-Idaho), Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, and other senators, support the movement to ban submarines. H...

North Dakota Gov. Arthur Sorlie (D) appoints Gerald (pronounced with a hard G, I’m informed) Nye, editor of the The Fryburg Pioneer , to th...

The Rhinelander v. Rhinelander court hears more of Alice Rhinelander’s letters to her future husband, in which she tried to make him jealou...

Italy agrees to pay off its war debt to the US. $2,407,000,000 over 62 years. These are better terms than the US is offering anyone else, r...

Rhinelander v. Rhinelander continues . Alice’s (semi-literate) letters to Leonard are read to the court to prove that she was the pursuer. H...

Headline of the Day -100: Alice Rhinelander’s lawyer points out that after “Kip’s” father placed him at a school for “backward youths” for ...