Wednesday, November 8, 1911. Stop gambling. Progressives take 1911 Election.

The legislature of the Anhui Province voted to secede from Imperial China.

The County attorney of Laramie County warned that all gambling must stop in the county.

The situation in China continued to make the front pages, as did the big left wing gains in the 1911 election.

Left wing gains?

Oh my.  Chuck Gray is probably wetting his bed at the mere mention of the 1911 election.  Hageman is probably going to come out and insist that we go to war with 1911.

The 1911 Election was an off, off year election. I.e., very much an off year.

The Santa Fe railroad was boosting itself in the Denver press for tourism.

The Union Pacific was boosting California.

The May D&F tower in Denver was the subject of a cartoon.

The prominent downtown Denver landmark is still there.

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Tuesday, November 7, 1911. First New Mexico State Election.

Labels: 1910s, 1911, China, China (Shaanxi), Chinese 1911 Revolution, New Mexico, Nobel Prize, Science, Yuan Shikai (袁世凱

Saturday, October 24, 1936. The Estado Novo severs relations with the Republic.

Portugal severed diplomatic relations with the Spanish Republic.

Sensing that it was going down in defeat, the GOP was trying the same old, same old.

The Zephyr was getting some press.

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Friday, October 23, 1936. No neutrality.

Labels: 1930s, 1936, Colorado (Denver), German Wehrmacht, Illinois (Chicago), Nazi Germany, Railroads, Spain, Spanish Civil War, USSR

Friday, October 23, 1936. No neutrality.

The Soviet Union informed the European committee of non-intervention in Spain that Russia would no longer be bound by the neutrality agreement which it wasn't honoring anyway.

The German Condor Legion was ordered to Spain.  Elements were already there.

The Denver Zephyr made a non-stop run from Chicago to Denver in 12 hours, 12 minutes, and 27 seconds.

The Denver Zephyr in 1936.  By SMU Central University Libraries - Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R.R., Original 'Denver Zephyr' Train, No restrictions, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45183743

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Thursday, October 22, 1936. Worsening conflicts

Labels: 1930s, 1936, Belgium, Cartoons, China, China (Beijing), Clerico-fascism, Education, Imperial Japanese Army, Japan, Nazi Germany, Photography, Spain, Spain (Madrid), Spanish Army, Spanish Civil War, Spanish Republicans, USSR

Monday, October 12, 1936. Armor to the Spanish Republicans, FDR in Cheyenne.

It was Columbus Day, which had been officially recognized as a permanent honorific day in 1934.

Republican T-26.

Fifty Soviet T-26 tanks and some BA-3 armored cars arrived in Cartagena, Spain.

The T-26 tank was a very good tank for the period and would serve in the Red Army throughout World War Two.

A cross channel locomotive ferry service commenced between Dover and Dunkirk.

The Rocky Mountain News reported that Franklin Roosevelt had been in Cheyenne the day prior, where he attended Episcopal Church services.

He was in Denver today.

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Sunday, October 11, 1936. End of the Arab General Strike, Fascists attacks in London, War Concerns, Hermaphrodites.

Labels: 1930s, 1936, 1936 Election, Agriculture, Arab General Strike, Austria, British League of Nations Mandates, Franklin Roosevelt, Great Palestinian Revolt, Hermaphrodite, Men, Palestine, Science, Third Parties, Women

Tuesday, October 1, 1946. Crime, Punishment, and World War Two.

Sentences were handed down from the major Nuremberg Trial with verdicts having been rendered the previous day.  Twelve convicted were sentenced to death, those being Hermann Göring, Martin Bormann, who was sentenced in absentia and in fact already dead, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner,  Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank,Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Arthur Seyss-Inquart

All told, 19 people were convicted. Three were found innocent, those being Hjalmar Schacht, Franz von Papen, and Hans Fritzsche.

Mensa was founded.

Kim II Sung University was founded, named in accordance with the despicable strong man trait of naming things after yourself while you are alive. . . kind of like somebody else we could name.

Violence in downtown Denver.

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Saturday, September 28, 1946. "I believe the outlawing of the atom bomb is the outlawing of wars... I think the time has come when humanity is intelligent enough to do away with war."

Labels: 1940s, 1946, Bluegrass, Country & Western Music, Dwight Eisenhower, Greece, Monarchy, Nuclear power, Radio, War, Weapons

Thursday, September 12, 1946. Wallace takes a different route.

Henry Wallace.

Commerce Secretary Henry A. Wallace delivered a speech at Madison Square Garden contradicting the speech just delivered by Secretary of State Byrnes.  The speech criticized the administration's foreign policy and ultimately made almost everyone mad.

Truman had reviewed a draft of the speech and when asked by a reporter if it representing the policy of his government, he said that it did, only to rapidly attempt to claw that back when he realized what the speech said.

The speech brought Wallace's career, which saw him rise to the position of a Vice President under Franklin Roosevelt, come to an end.

Wallace is an interesting character in that he's the most far left Vice President the nation ever had, and had Roosevelt died during his third term, it would have brought to power an administration that would have been on the extreme left.  Indeed, Wallace was dumped in Roosevelt's last run as those close to FDR knew that he would not live through it.

Wallace had a bit of a track record of making embarrassing speeches.  He'd made one regarding a prior Commerce Secretary in 1943.

Wallace was a curious figure.  He was from the political far left and has been accused of being a Communist, which historians discount.  He ran against Truman in the 1948 Presidential election on a revived Progressive Party ticket with Sen. Glen Taylor of Idaho.  He became the editor of The New Republic in one of its down cycles.  Interestingly, when TNR turned 100, one of the editor of the "back of the magazine" asserted that Wallace was a Communist.

He was an expert on chickens.

A headline that, thanks to vaccines, we don't see anymore.

Last edition:

Wednesday, September 11, 1946. Longest scoreless tie.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, Austro Hungaria, baseball, Catholic, Christianity, Communists, Croatia, Dwight Eisenhower, Italy, Jimi Hendrix, Personalities, Philippines, religion, Sports, Yugoslav Partisans, Yugoslavia

Friday, July 7, 1876. Congress asks what's going on.

Congress made an inquiry:

The Rocky Mountain News told the tale.

Note the Budweiser advertisement.

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Thursday, July 6, 1876. Custer's defeat hits the New York Times.

Labels: 1870s, 1876, Battle of Little Big Horn, cavalry, George A. Custer, Great Sioux War, Montana, The Press, Yellowstone Expedition

Tuesday, July 2, 1946. They were Nazis, but maybe they didn't know what they were doing?

The Luce–Celler Act of 1946 was signed into law giving all Philippines citizens living in the United States the right to become naturalized U.S. citizens.

Lucius Clay

Deputy Military Governor of the American Zone of Occupation in Germany Lt. Gen. Lucius D. Clay pardoned all Nazis under 27 years old, except for those accused of war crimes, and restored one million men to German citizenship.

His act was based on the presumption that men of that age had largely not appreciated what they were doing.

The great postwar accomodation of the Nazis in West Germany had begun.

The News discussed the first OPA free day.

Of note, the Pappy O'Daniel was the Senator from Texas, for which he'd previously been Governor.  Hh also hosted a radio show.  He'd become Senator O'Daniel in the controversial 1941 special election following the death of Morris Sheppard by defeating defeated Lyndon Johnson by 1,311 votes.  He as a Southern, anti Roosevelt, Democrat.  He ran again for governor in 1956 and 1958 during which he claimed Brown v. Board of Education was part of a Communist conspiracy. He finished third in the Democratic primaries both times. After his 1958 loss he accepted the nomination of the Constitution Party, but did not appear on the general election ballot due to the state's "sore loser" law.  That nomination is somewhat interesting in context in that far right wing wackadoodle Rebecca Bextel, who is from the well funded Teton County carpetbagger wing of the GOP, is running on their ticket this year due to moronic thesis that cross over Democrats are going to get Barlow nominated for the GOP Governor slot and then she can come in and save the day by all the real Republicans voting for her in the general, something that shows a real deficit in mathematical understanding.

Orson Wells released The Stranger, his first film noir.

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Monday, July 1, 1946 Crossroads Able.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, Bikini Atoll, boats and ships, Economics, Office of Price Administration, Operation Crossroads, Pacific, Post War United States (and Canada), Sex, U.S. Navy, United States Air Force Academy, Weapons

Friday, June 28, 1946. First Hāfu (ハーフ).

The first recorded birth in Japan of a baby born of a Japanese mother and a father who was an American soldier occupying Japan, was announced on Japanese radio, barely more than nine months after the U.S. commenced occupation of Honshu.

The number of such children born during the American occupation from 1945 to 1952 is unknown, but best estimates put it at less than 5,000.  Small additional numbers had British and Australian fathers, with their fate being particularly harsh as British occupation authorities strictly prohibited liaisons with Japanese females and marriage was not an option.  Many of their children were given up for adoption as orphans.  In contrast,45,000 Japanese women became American war brides.

The entire matter was controversial in Japan, as generally it broke a strict cultural taboo regarding interacting with foreigners in this fashion. Cross cultural marriages were enormously looked down upon in Japan at the time and still somewhat are, albeit to a lesser degree.  The occupation period is the only instance in which Japanese women breached the taboo on a large scale.

In this case, the extremely rapid nature of the conception raises real questions about the nature of consent in the matter.

Comedian Gilda Radner was born in Detroit.

Actress Antoinette Perry form whom the Tony Awards are named died at age 58 of a heart attack. There were signs that it was coming, but as a Christian Scientist, she refused to see a doctor.  

She had been born in Denver, Colorado.

The Family Circle magazine featured a photograph of a cat in a wedding dress on the cover.

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Wednesday, June 26, 1946. The Nationalist Chinese Strike.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, Chiang Kai-shek, China, Chinese Civil War, Germany, Nationalist Chinese Army, Nazi Germany, People's Liberation Army, poster, United States, Weapons

Monday, April 10, 1876. The Army enlists Curly, Denver celebrates with beer.

Colonel John Gibbon enlisted 23 Crow men at Crow Agency (then located on Mission Creek, present day Livingston, MT) to serve as scouts for his Montana Column moving east along the Yellowstone River.  

These included the famous Crow Scout Curly (Ashishishe).

He passed away of May 22, 1923.

Married twice, he had one daughter.  He has a large number of descendants.

Early Colorado brewers celebrated the centennial with a commemorative bock beer

This week in 1876: The Denver Brewing Company markets its ‘peculiar and superior beverage’ to local saloons

Last edition:

Sunday, April 9, 1876. Homestake.

Labels: 1870s, 1876, Mining, South Dakota (Lead)

Tuesday, April 9, 1946. The Bomb, the accused, and pregnant Fräuleins.

The Rocky Mountain News reported on expenses associated with The Bomb.

The tragic story of Viola Elliot was back on the front page.  She first appeared there on February 8, 1946, when she gave birth while a prisoner due to the homicide in issue.

As we noted then:

She was accused of the beating death of her stepson, Robert.  She denied it, but she was convicted of second degree murder.  Her 8 year old son by a previous marriage was a witness for the prosecution at the trial and Mrs. Elliot admitted at the time of arrest that she had hit and kicked the child on the occasion of his death.  She later changed her story and claimed he'd tripped on his pajamas.

Her parents and husband said they'd stand by her at the time of her arrest, but I wonder if that was still the case later on.  At her sentencing, she stated that Leslie was just as responsible for the death and the judge agreed.  Leslie had already been arraigned for assault and battery and assessory after the fact.  In April she petitioned the County to make her children wards of the County, to which her husband objected.  They were noted to be "estranged" by that time.

Viola was 27 years old and on her second marriage at the time.  She would have had her first child, if her son who testified was the first at age 19 in 1937 or 1938.  The paper mentioned that there were three children, including the murdered boy.  Interestingly, I can find one other reference to a "Miss Viola Elliot" from 1937 indicating that Viola Elliot was employed as an arts and crafts teacher.  A 1943 edition mentions a Viola Elliott as being just back in town after visiting her husband in Tennessee, who was probably in the service.

Viola received 15 to 20 years for the murder.

Leslie would receive six months for assault and battery.

Her mother, Alice Faber, testified at the trial, as did her father.  Alice died in 1966 and is buried in Denver.  Her obituary listed Viola as still living, still with the last name Elliot, and in Denver.  The Fabers also had a son named Wilmer, who was alive at the time.  The boy who testified at the trial was living in California.

Her father died in 1961.

The impacts of the war in addition to the bomb were a story several pages in.

Peacetime conscription had not been a thing prior to 1940 and there remained a lot of opposition to it.  Indeed, it would go away for a time.

The plight of pregnant German girls in Munich, made so by American GIs, was seemingly without a solution and without sympathy.  By this point the Occupation Authorities were allowing for fraternization, but the U.S. Army was not approving enlisted marriages.  The young women seemingly expected help from the Army.

Munich had been Hitler's adopted town, we'd note, which is interesting in context here as the women in question would have become pregnant by American GIs very soon after the end of the war.

Last edition:

Thursday, April 4, 1946. Hirohito lucks out.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, Far Eastern Commission, Hirohito, Marilyn Monroe, Playboy, Standards, War Crimes, Women

Monday, April 3, 1876. The Denver municipal election.

 

• Government
• Special

Denver’s 1876 municipal election shaped a fast-growing frontier city

This week in 1876: Democrats and Republicans contested city elections across the Colorado Territory

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Tuesday, March 28, 1876. The Haitō Edict.

Labels: 1870s, 1876, Art, Gun Control, Haitō Edict, Imperial Japanese Army, Japan, Monarchy, Samurai, Weapons