The U.S. Senate passed the Willis-Campbell Act on this day in 1921 prohibiting physicians from proscribing beer as a medical remedy. They could still prescribe hard alcohol and wine.
On the same day, the British suspended new ship construction in light of progress at the Washington Naval Conference talks. And Roscoe Arbuckle's trial was proceeding.
Arbuckle with his defense team and brother.
Marshall Foch visited New York City's statue of Joan d'Arc.
Marshal Ferdinand Jean Marie Foch with mineralogist George Frederick Kunz at a ceremony held at the Joan of Arc statue in New York City. Standing at the right, is Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington, sculptor of the Joan of Arc statue, and Jacqueline Vernot holding flowers.
The Soviet Union, which was going to have an economy based on pure ownership by the proletariat of the means of production, figured out that banks were a necessity and crated a state bank. The Soviet economy was collapsing.
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