The Chicago trial of the Black Sox ended with an acquittal. Major League Baseball nonetheless judged the accused as sufficiently convicted it in its eyes and continued their lifetime ban from baseball.
On this Tuesday, this first week of August 1921, Riffian forces took Nadar and Selouane in Morocco.
The Spanish presence in Morocco was effectively collapsing.
Enrico Caruso, legendary opera singer, then age 48, died of peritonitis in Naples.
The U.S. Coast Guard seized the British schooner Henry L. Marshall twelve miles off of New Jersey, i.e., international waters, where it was found to hold, upon boarding, 12,000 cases of liquor. The boat was one of several owned by the McCoy brothers who had turned to liquor smuggling with the advent of Prohibition. Of them, William McCoy is the best remembered, with his refusal to cut what he was shipping leading to the phrase "the real McCoy".
Ironically, Daytona Beach based McCoy was a teetotaler.
McCoy's strategy relied upon his being in international waters. His ship didn't run booze into Atlantic City itself, but rather transferred to smaller boats that came out to it.
Margaret Gorman, Miss Washington D. C. was photographed.
Gorman was regarded as a great beauty and would go on that year to be crowned Miss America. She married a few years later and lived happily the rest of her life in Washington D.C, noting in later years that she'd become bored with her beauty pageant history.
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