The British commenced their occupation of Rawandiz, in Iraqi Kurdistan. The Kurdish city is near the Turkish and Iranian borders. The United Kingdom was occupying the country under a League of Nations Mandate. The border was contested by the Turks, who had occupied the city only a year prior, which motivated the British to garrison the town.
The Bulgarian Agrarian National Union won the vast majority of the seats of the country's Parliament. The agrarian party is the only such party to come to power by a majority of votes being cast for it outright.
The party was a founding member of the International Agrarian Bureau and part of a strong rising agrarian movement in Eastern Europe. The movement would eventually spread to Western Europe as well, but the rise of Communism and World War Two would effectively destroy it and its influence waned. The Bureau dissolved in 1971.
The Italian fascists cut 1B lire from the country's budget by cutting civil service jobs, leaving the deficit in the budget at 3B for that year.
A bomb exploded at Comiskey Park in Chicago, but didn't injure anyone. Nobody was arrested from the explosion, but it was suspected that it was the result of the hiring of non-union labor to point the exterior of the ballpark.
I don't know if it's related, but owner Charles Comiskey was notoriously cheap.
"Queen of the Pinups" Bettie Page was born on this day in 1923. Page was a good student, but from a broken home. After several attempts to get her feet on the ground she turned to modeling in her late 20s and rapidly became, by the early 1950s an infamous pornographic model and actress and one of the few individuals in that line of work whose name was well known. In 1958, she experienced a radical conversion to Christianity, stopped her pornographic career, and devoted the rest of her life to her conversion, although she ended up marrying and divorcing three times in her life. Her divorces prevented her from being accepted in a new desired career of Christian missionary to Africa. She was subpoenaed to testify in front of a Congressional committee at the time investigating the pornography industry at a time when there still remained sufficient public will to attempt to do something about it, an era that has now very much faded.
In making her switch, she dropped out of the public eye but oddly was subject to a large scale revival in interest in the 1980s, which is the only reason I've heard of her. She was the subject of a major biography at the time, and I can recall reading a detailed review of it in The New Republic, which used to have fantastic book reviews. In the intervening thirty years, all sorts of rumors had spring up about her, even though she remained alive at the time. About as much as can reasonably be said is that she struggled with her mental health and had abandoned the life that brought her to a certain section of the public eye. She shares that trait with many in the industry, including many Playboy models, which in fact she was one of.
Dying in 2008, Page is a sad tale of a very smart person whose early life slid into vice with grotesque and tragic results, but also one of recovery and redemption, if not full recovery. It's interesting that the public focus was on her only when she was deep into depravity, and then again late in life when a pornified culture wanted to focus on her earlier image.
Of some interest, Page and Marilyn Monroe took the same path, at almost the same time, although Monroe's turn to modeling, including nude modeling, happened at a significantly earlier age. Both women were the products of broken homes, although Monroe's was significantly more broken. Monroe, moreover, was just a teenager when she was first a true model, and it was not until the late 1940s that she was photographed nude. Ironically, Monroe was able to start a career in acting before the news of her nude photographs broke, and while she was Playboy's first (unwilling) model, she was able to escape the immediate implications of it due to the intervention of Life magazine, which ran the same photographs before Playboy as glamour photos in order to save her career. Page, in contrast, began a rapid descent after first consenting to be photographed. They were almost bookends in a certain story in the evolution of American morality and the portrayal of women. Neither of them was able to really able to escape their early story, although Page certainly lived a much longer life.
Both of them would suggest that something about the Second World War and the culture that followed, including the release of false "studies" that the public was apparently willing to accept at the time had an impact on the culture, assuming that the war was merely conicidental in this story. That seems unlikely.
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