This must be what it was like when the Vandals came to Rome.

 

Geez Louise.

This is seriously stupid.

Wednesday, February 18, 1925. Mayflower Hotel opens.

The Mayflower Hotel opened in Washington D.C.  It's still operating.

Actor George Kennedy, who entered the Army during World War Two and completed sixteen years of an intended military career before a medical discharge, was born.  He died in 2016 at age 91.

It's odd to think that in the planning scene in The Dirty Dozen every single actor actually had been in the service.  Kennedy in the Army, Marvin in the Marine Corps, Ryan in the Marine Corps and Borgnine in the Navy.

Last edition:

Saturday, February 14, 1925. The Berries.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Cartoons, Kurds, Slang, Turkey, Valentine's Day

Wednesday, January 29, 1975. American terrorism of the 1970s.

The Weather Underground bombed the State Department building in Washington, D.C.

Logo of the Weather Underground

The far left terrorist organization came out of the chaos of the 1960s which continued on, now mostly forgotten, into a violent early 1970s.  We're on the verge, I fear, of eclipsing that era in violence, although ironically the party attacking the government now is the populist now in power.  Given as the path we're currently on, in lots of ways, can't continue, there's real reason for concern about where the Trump interregnum's violence against the United States will lead, and if it will result in further societal violence.

In interesting aspect of this is what Gene Shepherd noted long ago, extremist meet in their extremism.  We've never had extremist in power before, however.

The group took its name from Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues, which ironically is associated in my mind with well to do old lawyers who came of age in the 1960s singing it, as if any of their later lives reflected what they claimed to have believed in earlier days.

Last edition:

Tuesday, January 28, 1975. Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown.

Labels: 1970s, 1975, Cartoons, Japan, Petroleum, Sakhalin Island, television, USSR

Friday, January 2, 1925

 

Last edition:

Tuesday, January 1, 1925. Marines in China.

Labels: 1920s, 1925, Art, China, Chinese Warlord Era, Costa Rica, French League of Nation Mandates, League of Nations, Norway, Syria, United States Marine Corps

Saturday, November 4, 1944. Sir John Dill.

Self propelled U.S. 155 shelling German positions with captured German artillery projectiles, November 4, 1944.

Australian forces landed at Jacquiot Bay in New Britain.

The last major air raid on Bochum, German occured.  4,000 buildings and 1,000 people were lost in the raid by the RAF.

The Red Army took Szolnok and Cegled on the way to Budapest.

Royal Navy Minesweepers reached the port of Antwerp while the logistical tail continued to reach back principally to Normandy, a major problem for the Western Allies.

The 5th Indian Division took Kennedy Peak, south of Tiddim.

Field Marshall Sir John Dill died in Washington D. C. at age 63.  The British officer was immensely respected in Washington, and is buried at Arlington.

Last edition:

Friday, November 3, 1944. Generals.

Labels: 1940s, 1944, George S. Patton, Kamikaze, Radio

Saturday, June 7, 1924. Signing bills.

Interestingly related to something we recently posted, photographs of Boy Scouts participating in contests on this day in 1924.

The Clarke-McNary Act went into effect, making it easier for the Federal Government to purchase land to expand the National Forest System.

President Coolidge signed the Cameron Bill authorizing Coolidge Dam.

President Coolidge signed the Anti Heroin Act of 1924 prohibiting the importation and possession of opium for the chemical synthesis of the addictive narcotic known as diamorphine, i.e, heroin.

President Coolidge signed the Oil Pollution Act of 1924 concerning the discharge of petroleum from ships.

It was Saturday and the weekend magazines were out.  The Country Gentleman featured a June Bride.

In a shocking contrast, located by Michaelnoir of the 100 Years Ago Subreddit, Judge featured this:

The Saturday Evening Post featured a daydreaming accountant.

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Friday, June 6, 1924. Coolidge speaks at Howard, the Reichstag approves the Dawes Plan.

Labels: 1920s, 1924, Calvin Coolidge, Education, Ethnicities, German Weimar Republic, Motorcycles, the spoken word

Friday, May 9, 1924. Scottish question results in chaos.

Portrait taken on this day in 1924.

President Coolidge's attempt to delay the implementation of restrictions on Japanese immigration was defeated by the House of Representatives.

George Buchanan introduced a Scottish Home Rule bill, but the debated descended into chaos and Parliament adjourned for the day.

Administrative devolution was granted to Scotland in 1885.  Home rule in the form of the Scottish Parliament was granted in 1999.

In the US, Washington D.C. has home rule, unfortunately.

The Westland Dreadnought was destroyed in a crash.

Air mail service from Belfast to Liverpool was established.

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Wednesday, May 7, 1924. Liberty.

1920s, 1924, German Weimar Republic, Labor unrest, Mexico, Mining, Peru, Politics, Ruhr, Socialism, South America, The Press

Wednesday, April 23, 1924. Debutants drill team

Debutants drill team, April 23, 1914.

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Tuesday, April 22, 1924. Silent Cal.

1940s, 1944, Afghan tribal revolts of 1944–1947, Afghanistan, Battle of Hollandia, China, Hollandia, New Guinea, Operation Ichi-Go, Operation Persecution, Operation Reckless, World War Two

Easter Sunday, April 20, 1924.

The first public Mass at the Catholic Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C. took.  The Mass was celebrated by Bishop Thomas Joseph Shahan.

Shahan is interred in a crypt as the basilica, the only person to have received internment there to date.

The Turkish Constitution was ratified by the Grand National Assembly.  It established Islam as the official religion and Turkish as the official language.  Ankara was established as the capital.

The Casper Daily Tribune issued an Easter Sunday edition noting the result of the prior day's meeting on a councilman with a liquor charge.

And tourists were being de bugged.

Last prior edition:

Holy Saturday, April 19, 1924.

1920s, 1924, California, Calvin Coolidge, Cartoons, Casper Wyoming, Country & Western Music, Easter, Health, Holy Saturday, Music, Radio, Tourism, Transportation, Wyoming (Casper)

Tuesday, January 8, 1924. Telling Trotsky to pack.

Pravda reported that Leon Trotsky was ill, which savvy Kremlin watchers took, accurately, to mean that he'd be told to hit the skids soon.

Some kids hit the skates in Washington, D.C.

Monday, January 7, 1924. Rebels take Tampico.

Mexican rebels took Tampico.  The city is an important oil port.

The Fédération Internationale de Hockey (FIH) was founded in Paris by representatives of field hockey organizations of Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Spain, and Switzerland.

Ice Skating near the Lincoln Memorial, January 7, 1924.

A Catholic organization protested the current immigration policy.

Monday, December 24, 1923. The National Christmas Tree.

The first National Christmas Tree event was held in Washington, D.C., featuring a 100-member choir from the city's First Congregational Church at the South Portico of the White House and President Calvin Coolidge pushing a button to illuminate 2,500 electric bulbs adorning the tree.

More on this event:

1923 National Christmas Tree

On the same day, Mrs. Coolidge visited a Salvation Army location.

Calvin Coolidge Jr. went riding with a Dr. Boone:

Carolers visited the White House.

Friday, December 14, 1923. Obregón takes the field.

Obregón, who had risen to prominence as a general, now took the field in defense of his administration.

A 5.3 magnitude earthquake killed over 300 people in Columbia and Ecuador.

Congressional pages took advantage of a Washingon D.C. snowfall.

Thursday, November 1, 1923. Walton arraigned, Krupp signs, Baltic treaties, Finnair founded, George Washington Cornerstone laid, the wages of sin.

Oklahoma was impeaching its anti Klan Governor.

Gustav Krupp signed an agreement with the French which established operating conditions for his mines in the Ruhr.  He was released from prison fourteen days later.

Estonia and Latvia signed a mutual defense treaty.

Finnair was founded as "Aero Osakeyhtiö".  It had one airplane at the time, a Junkers F.13 seaplane.

The George Washington Memorial cornerstone was laid.

Recently retired, at age 29, Irish mob gangster Bill Lovett was murdered in his sleep at an abandoned store in Brooklyn.  Lovett was a well-educated man who loved animals, and a distinguished World War One veteran, but a dedicated alcoholic who could be very temperamental when drunk.  He'd been in the Irish mob before and again after World War One, but had recently given up crime and drinking after marrying.  He fell off the wagon on October 31 while downtown for a job interview, and went to sleep in the store with a compatriot.  He was apparently murdered by other Irish mobsters.

Saturday, Sepember 22, 1923. Henning Hotel Robbed.

A major raid in Chicago on speakeasies resulted in the jails being filled to capacity.

Crime was a major story in Casper as well:

And the Governor of Oklahoma caught a dragon.

The Navy's ZR-1 dirigible flew over Washington, D. C.

Monday, July 30, 1923. Harding in grave condition.

President Harding was reported to e in "grave" condition, which indeed he was.

Summer life, of course, went on for many, which included camps for some.

And protests for others.

And Reserve training, as in these men from D.C.'s Naval Reserve were doing.

The British Empire claimed the Ross Dependency in Antarctica and expressed a desire that, save for some territory belonging to Chile, Argentina and France, the Empire should come to own the entire continent.

The Dependency today is claimed by New Zealand, a claim recognized only by other countries claiming Antarctic lands.