Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, December 30, 1922. Red Empire.

Friday, December 30, 2022

Saturday, December 30, 1922. Red Empire.

The Saturday Evening Post featured one of J. C. Leyendecker's many New Years illustrations.

It was satyric in nature, with Old Europe, treaty in back pocket, greeting the young US in allegorical form as the old year and the new year meeting.

A new development, reviving an old set of borders, was unfortunately occurring. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was officially founded on this day in 1922. It had, of course, been functioning as a Communist monstrosity for some time already.

The original flag of the Soviet Union. This one perhaps overemphasized the Communist goal of swallowing up everything and was later changed.

The Country Gentleman featured a baby with a seed catalog, but unfortunately I was not able to locate the illustration.

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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."

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