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Wednesday, March 3, 2021

March 3, 1941. Deepenings

The Germans started sealing off Krakow to establish a Jewish concentrated ghetto there.

More on the evil of Germany in Poland can be read about here:

Today in World War II History—March 3, 1941

Mars Candy received the patent for M&Ms on this day in 1941. They were based on a British candy called Smarties which Frank C. Mars, the owner of the company, had observed soldiers eating during the Spanish Civil War. The first customer was the U.S. government which purchased them for servicemen serving overseas as they wouldn't melt.

On the same day, Winston Churchill urged FDR to ignore the growing caloric crisis in France.

Churchill – ‘Don’t feed the French’

Turkey had second thoughts about its non aggression pack with Bulgaria and cancelled it after only one week of existence. The U.S. froze Bulgarian assets in the country.

Guardsmen from Pine City, Minnesota, departed for Federalized service.

Other events in World War Two from this day:

Day 550 March 3, 1941

Sunday, May 31, 2020

Strife

Denver put a curfew in place and the Colorado National Guard has been called out to address riots in the Centennial State's capitol city.

National Guardsmen of the 40th Armored Division, California National Guard, August, 1965.

The riots stem from several recent incidents of violent deaths of African Americans, the most recent at the hands of a policeman in Minneapolis Minnesota.

Those riots have spread all across the urban United States. It's hard, from a distance, to grasp why hundreds of miles away from the scene of the offense riots take place against a community that didn't participate in the offense. It points to something underlying, and the pundits will be full of analysis over it over the next several weeks.

But on the topic in general, distant riots aren't calculated to achieve anything and end up punishing the communities that were affiliated by them. Businesses move, employment drops, and those who were deprived to start with are more deprived. It's a compounding tragedy.

And its one that, in this context, we should be well past. And yet we're not.

Lex Anteinternet?

This blog has been around since 2009. In the very first post, we asked the question: "What the heck is this blog about?"

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."

All of this is still true, but the focus of the blog has changed somewhat. It now focuses on the era from 1890 to 1920 in general, rather than on the law and lawyers specifically, although that may be far from obvious. It's also become the location where we comment on anything we feel moved to comment on.

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