Lex Anteinternet: December 17, 1920. The Red Summer on a Snowy Winter Day.

Thursday, December 17, 2020

December 17, 1920. The Red Summer on a Snowy Winter Day.

A race riot broke out in Independence Kansas resulting in the Kansas National Guard being deployed to the city in severe winter conditions.

On the same day, the League of Nations assigned mandates to a variety of countries over form German colonies. These included German South West Africa, which is now Namibia, which went to South Africa. Japan took a collection of former German islands. Australia took New Guinea and Nauru. New Zealand took Western Samoa.

And Albania was admitted to the League of Nations.

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This blog has been around since 2009. In the very first post, we asked the question: "What the heck is this blog about?"

Our answer to the question was: "The intent of this blog is to try to explore and learn a few things about the practice of law prior to the current era. That is, prior to the internet, prior to easy roads, and the like. How did it work, how regional was it, how did lawyers perceive their roles, and how were they perceived?"

We also noted: "Part of the reason for this, quite frankly, has something to do with minor research for a very slow moving book."

All of this is still true, but the focus of the blog has changed somewhat. It now focuses on the era from 1890 to 1920 in general, rather than on the law and lawyers specifically, although that may be far from obvious. It's also become the location where we comment on anything we feel moved to comment on.

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