Month: January 2022
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Italy’s Frankenstein and His Monster
A January 1922 New York Times Magazine article described Benito Mussolini as a rising figure in Italy. By October, he would be Prime Minister. Mussolini had helped birth the Italian fascists (Fascismo) who used rough tactics, up to and including extrajudicial killings, in the name of law and order. As the article explains: After the…
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Free Union of Hughes and Harding
After President Warren G. Harding publicly contradicted his Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes on an issue related to Japan, rumors swirled of bad blood between the two men: Why should Mr. Harding interpret the pact one way when Mr. Hughes had more than once interpreted it the other way, unless the president wished to…
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After Two “Dry” Years
Two years after Prohibition was enacted via the Eighteenth Amendment, this New York Times article called it “practically irreversible.” You can see why, in January 1922, such a phrase would be used. The legislative branch didn’t seem to be budging on the issue. Still more significant has been the fact that the new Congress has…
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