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But before you do so, please read this note. —AB[[EDITOR'S NOTE: Unless otherwise noted, historical items appear courtesy of longtime Nevada reporter Dennis Myers' Poor Denny's Almanac [PDA]. Items highlighted in blue are of interest to labor in particular and seekers of justice in general. Copyright © 2008 Dennis Myers.]]
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WE WIN ROUND ONE — As the Barbwire show scooped the state on Friday, Aug. 22: Charter has caved in and postponed the execution date for 90 days. Thanks for bringing the heat. See the Barbwire in the Sunday Sparks Tribune for all the inside baseball. Be well. Raise hell. AB
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2:00-4:00 p.m. PDT, 21:00-23:00 GMT/CUT/SUTSeptember 30
Franklin Roosevelt/September 30 1934: I am not for a return of that definition of liberty under which for many years a free people were being gradually regimented into the service of a privileged few.
On this date in 1790, The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart debuted at Vienna‚s Theatre auf de Wieden, two months before Mozart‚s death; in 1864 the Lincoln cabinet discussed the admission of Nevada into the union; in 1875 National Women‚s Party leader and Nevada U.S. senate candidate Anne Martin was born in Empire, Nevada; in 1918 after years of demonstrations, pickets, and protests, jailings of suffragettes, hunger strikes and force feeding, President Wilson surrendered and reversed his position on votes for women, sending a message to Congress calling for enactment of a women‚s suffrage amendment to the U.S. Constitution; in 1927 Babe Ruth hit his 60th season homer, setting a record that stood until 1961; in 1931 a meeting was held in Las Vegas on plans for public relief programs through the winter months; in 1935 the beloved Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess debuted in Boston, winning praise there˜and later in New York˜with purists claiming it was not a real opera (the same charge later made against Jesus Christ Superstar) but conductor Serge Koussevitzky calling it „a great advance in opera‰; in 1938 Nevada Highway Department engineer J.M. Murphy said the new Searchlight highway would be finished and open with in two weeks; in 1953 President Eisenhower nearly doubled the $400 million already appropriated by Congress to pay for the French war against Indochina, which was now mostly U.S. funded; on 1957 in Sparks Local 1265 of the International Association of Fire Fighters held a meeting to plan its pettion for recognition to the city council; in 1966 an attorney for the Pyramid Lake tribe called for a halt to work on Stampede Dam upstream of Reno until legal water allocations on the Truckee River were complied with (he alleged that Truckee Carson Irrigation Ditch farmers were using twice as much water as allowed); in 1968 Democratic presidential nominee Hubert Humphrey announced that if elected he would stop the bombing of Vietnam „as an acceptable risk for peace‰, a pledge that began bringing disaffected antiwar voters to him; in 1977 Nevada District Judge James Brennan issued an injunction barring the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, from suspending basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian (the order was appealed to the Nevada Supreme Court which, in an incredible display of old boyism, sat on it more or less permanently); in 1983 the Reno Evening Gazette published its last edition and the morning Nevada State Journal changed its name to the Reno Gazette/Journal; in 1986 former Israeli nuclear scientist Mordechai Vanunu, who alerted the world to Israel's development of thermonuclear weapons of mass destruction, was kidnapped by Israeli agents in Rome, drugged, and taken to Israel where he was tried in secret and imprisoned for ten years, then released under conditions restricting his freedom of movement and speech (Amnesty International has designated hima political prisoner); in 1999 in the worst nuclear accident in Japan‚s history, large amounts of radiation were released from the Tokaimura plant, killing two people, injuring dozens of others, and keeping hundreds of thousands in their homes at government direction.
September 29
On this date in 1789, the U.S. Congress established the U.S. military, which until then had been acting under congressional authorization but now came into being as a creation of the constitution (the force was kept small until after the Second World War because of the U.S. tradition of having only a small standing peacetime army); in 1869 „About 1 Þ o‚clock p.m., to-day, the Miner‚s Unions...marched down Main Street, Gold Hill, to the number of about 350, with drum and fife, and out on the line of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, with the avowed purpose of driving off the Chinese employed as graders‰; in 1924 Reno speakeasies operated by Fred Cunningham at 12 West Commercial Row and by Thomas Kinney in a tailor shop at 29 East Douglas Alley were raided, and Indian police officer Sam Johns arrested 64-year-old Alex Jamison for selling denatured alcohol to Native Americans in the jungles along the Truckee River; in 1936 President Roosevelt gave one of his funniest speeches, using his deliver and tone of voice to poke fun at Republican claims that they would not undo Roosevelt‚s program if they won election (see below); in 1941 German Nazis, local Ukraine collaborators, and Ukrainian police began the massacre in Babi Yar Ravine, murdering from 70,000 to 120,000 people, believed to be the largest single massacre of the Holocaust; in 1945 with Vietnam emerging from Japanese occupation, President Ho of Vietnam wrote to President Truman after the death of U.S. Army Lt. Colonel Peter Dewey, the first known U.S. soldier killed in Vietnam, to tell him „we are deeply moved by such a news and promise that nothing will be omitted on our part to find out the culprits and severely punish them. For the time being we can only assure you that we are touched by the death of any American resident in this country as much as by the death of our dearest relatives. Measures are being taken to prevent the return of such incidents.‰ (Truman ignored the message); in 1960 an unusual crossover between two television sitcoms took place, with neighbor boy Dennis Mitchell (Jay North) „helping‰ Donna Reed redecorate her home on the Donna Reed Show and Donna turning to Mr. Wilson for help; in 1965 reacting to Saigon‚s execution of Vietnamese prisoners of war, the Hanoi government sent a letter to the International Red Cross informing the organization that U.S. pilots captured while bombing Vietnam would be treated as war criminals and tried because Geneva accords on treatment of prisoners did not apply, the same argument the Bush administration used in Afghanistan and Iraq; in 1966 national guard troops patrolling San Francisco‚s riot-torn low income neighborhoods were given „shoot to kill‰ orders by Lt. Colonel Harland Smith; in 1978 Pope John Paul I, the „smiling pope‰ who used „I‰ instead of the royal „we‰ and disliked being carried on a throne, died 33 days after his election as pope; in 2002 a crowd of from a quarter- to a half-million people in London protested the British government's plan to support the unprovoked U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Franklin Roosevelt/New York Democratic Convention/Syracuse/September 29 1936: Let me warn you and let me warn the nation against the smooth evasion which says, „Of course we believe all these things. We believe in social security; we believe in work for the unemployed; we believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die, we believe in all these things. But we do not like the way the present administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them, we will do more of them, we will do them better, and most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything.
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September 28
On this date in 48, Ptolemy of Egypt had Pompey of Rome, who had invaded Egypt while fleeing Julius Caesar‚s forces, assassinated at Pelusium; in 1863 Union generals Thomas Crittenden and Alexander M. McCook were stripped of their commands and ordered to face a court of inquiry for losing at Chickamauga; in 1904 heavyweight champion James Jeffries appeared in Reno‚s McKissick Opera House in the title role in a performance of the „idyl backwoods drama‰ Davy Crockett by Frank Mayo; in 1909 the fading boom town of Goldfield saw a short renaissance as the American Mining Congress met, with U.S. Senator Francis Newlands declaring the silver issue that had long fueled the Democratic Party dead, the Congress calling for the establishment of a federal bureau of mines, and former Comstock editor C.C. Goodwin presenting a paper on „Some Suggestions For the Settlement of the Silver Question‰ (Goodwin‚s paper was actually read by George Dern of Utah, later governor of that state, FDR‚s secretary of war, grandfather of actor Bruce Dern and great grandfather of actor Laura Dern); in 1912 W.C. Handy‚s influential „Memphis Blues or (Mister Crump)‰ was published; in 1932 radio stations in Portland picked up distress calls from the freighter S.S. Nevada, and a Japanese ship wirelessed a message that it had arrived at the site given in the distress calls (about a hundred miles south of the Aleutians) and found nothing; in 1941 in a game against the Philadelphia Athletics, Boston‚s Ted Williams got 4 hits in 5 at bats to put his average at .404, the last player to hit .400 (see also 1960); in 1944 in a House of Commons speech lasting more than an hour and a half, Winston Churchill gave voice to a concern that preoccupied many allied leaders in the late stages of the European war, that die hard Nazis would establish a redoubt in German forests and mountains and keep fighting as guerrillas after the end of the war (no such thing came to pass); in 1944 U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull warned neutral nations that their relations with the U.S. would be „adversely affected‰ for years if they sheltered axis leaders after the war (he didn't address the eventuality that ultimately came to pass-- the U.S. sheltering axis scientists); in 1955 a sidewalk series˜the Dodgers versus the Yankees˜began in New York (Brooklyn won in seven games); in 1956 Elvis‚s „Love Me Tender‰, taken from the 19th century ballad „Aura Lee‰ with new words by Ken Darby (though the song was falsely credited to Darby‚s wife Vera Mattson and Elvis), was released; in 1957 the annual Orvis Ring Elementary School pet parade in Reno featured the Reno High School band and little Edith Raggio as Miss Nevada of 1970, Angelina Birks‚ fourth grade class won first display prize and fourth grader Valentine Olds won first individual prize; in 1958 olympian Jesse Owens crowned Ruby Roberts of Oakland as the first keno queen of Reno‚s New China Club; in 1960 Ted Williams played his final game and hit a home run in his last turn at bat; in 1963 President Kennedy spoke at the municipal convention center in Las Vegas, endorsing national park status for Hoover Dam/Lake Mead, importation of more water to feed Las Vegas growth, preservation of Lake Tahoe, and creation of Great Basin National Park; in 1964 Mike Goldwater, son of the Republican presidential nominee, spoke at Reno‚s Riverside Hotel (with Michael Graham and Dennis Myers in the audience).; in 1966 Nevada Governor Grant Sawyer said the FBI‚s rampant use of electronic eavesdropping in Nevada „reminds me of all I have read and heard about Nazism‰; in 1967 President Johnson used a medal of honor ceremony to defend the war on Vietnam from growing criticism (the medal recipience was 1st Cav Sgt. David Dolby); in 1968 the seven minute „Hey Jude‰ hit number one, the longest song ever to achieve the feat; in 2002 Father Mychal Judge, who died on September 11 while ministering to firefighters, was posthumously awarded the Thomas A. Dooley Award by the Gay and Lesbian Alumni of Notre Dame and St. Mary‚s College; in 2007 seventh grader Graeme Frost of Baltimore, a victim of a brain stem injury, gave the Democratic Party's national weekly radio address on children's health care legislation, with the result that he and his family came under attack by John Boehner, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, the National Review and the Weekly Standard.
September 27
On this date in 1826, Margaret Lindsay and James Webster were married in Kirriemuir parish of county Forfar (now Angus) in Scotland (fifty years later they celebrated what the Nevada State Journal said was the first known Truckee Meadows golden wedding anniversary˜among whites, anyway˜with a party at Steamboat Springs); in 1904 William Jennings Bryan, campaigning for the Democratic ticket, began the day in Reno, traveled to Virginia City and Carson City on the Virginia and Truckee, then returned and spoke in Sparks; in 1924 with a corporate-oriented Democratic candidate for president in John W. Davis and progressives drifting to Progressive candidate Robert La Follette, California denied La Follette‚s party ballot status, so the California Socialist Party turned its ballot line over to him; in 1924 a meeting held at George Wingfield‚s house in Reno was held to organize women in a campaign organization to support President Coolidge (Coolidge came in last in Nevada, behind the Democrats, Progressives, and Socialists); in 1924 U.S.Senator Tasker Oddie of Nevada asked the U.S. Interior Department for an opinion on whether, in view of the recent grant of U.S. citizenship to Native Americans, there was any reason to continue Indian schools such as the one at Stewart, Nevada; in 1939 the Von Trapp family, having departed Austria by rail (not on foot over the alps) for Italy (not Switzerland; Captain Georg Von Trapp was Italian, not Austrian) and then Sweden to undertake a concert tour in the United States, departed from Oslo for New York on the SS Bergensfjord; in 1949 Nevada Governor Vail Pittman said he would meet with the Las Vegas Rent Control Advisory Board before acting on a recommendation that he lift rent control in the city; in 1953 Nevada‚s second television station, KZTV (later KOLO) in Reno, went on the air; in 1954 Steve Allen‚s Tonight show debuted on the full NBC network after several months on WNBC (it would produce stars like Tom Poston, Don Knotts, Louis Nye, Eydie Gorme, Andy Williams, Gene Rayburn, Skitch Henderson, and Steve Lawrence and enduring routines like the Question Man [later revived by Johnny Carson as Karnac] and Stump the Band); in 1962 Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published by Houghton Mifflin, helping to spark the environmental movement and prompting a vigorous counterattack by the chemical industry and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (it was named by a jury of journalists and journalism faculty convened by New York University as number two on a list of the 100 best works of journalism of the 1900s, by Discover magazine as one of the 25 greatest science books of all time, and by William F. Buckley‚s National Review as number 78 on a list of the 100 best nonfiction books of the 1900s); in 1964 the report of the Warren Commission was released (a nonfiction version was not made available); in 1992 60 Minutes on CBS and, the next day, the Los Angeles Times reported that the U.S. Agency for International Development was using taxpayer money to convince U.S. corporations to take jobs to other nations, providing sweetheart loans and tax breaks to companies that would relocate to Central America; in 1995 the U.S. government introduced its new „Mattel money‰ with the release of a hundred dollar bill that featured an enlarged, off center picture of Benjamin Franklin.September 26
Ferdinand LaSalle/September 26 1863: Nothing is more sacred than the publishers‚ capital! Ýit was now argued that it was the actual duty of the of the newspapers to do nothing that might incur a monetary lossÝIt is as if a soldier˜and the newspapers ought to be soldiers, champions of liberty, and claim to be such˜should regard it as his first duty under no circumstances to expose himself to the danger of being hit by a bullet.On this date in 1787, the U.S. Congress began a two day debate on whether to censure the delegates to the federal constitutional convention for exceeding their authority and drafting a new form of government instead of amending the Articles of Confederation; in 1876 Margaret and James Webster celebrated what the Nevada State Journal said was the first known golden wedding anniversary in the Truckee Meadows with a party at Steamboat Springs; in 1904 former and future Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan spoke at the University of Nevada in Reno, with U.S. Senator Francis Newlands and Governor John Sparks in attendance; in 1909 Willie Boy and Carlota, Chemehuevi lovers who had been kept apart by her family, fled Banning, California and headed for the Morongo Pass at night after he fatally shot her father, setting off a famed manhunt that was dramatized in the Katherine Ross/Robert Blake film Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (the Chemehuevi were a tribe that overlapped with the Shoshone and Paiute and possibly the Numu); in 1916 Mildred Clark Myers was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania; in 1820 Daniel Boone died in Missouri; in 1945 U.S. Army Lt. Col. Peter Dewey was shot and killed in Saigon, believed to be the first U.S. casualty in Vietnam; in 1956 the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and two AEC contractors were exploring the possibility of taking over Las Vegas‚s Moulin Rouge Casino building; in 1957 West Side Story opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway, producing rhapsodic reviews; in 1960 the first Kennedy/Nixon debate was broadcast from WBBM in Chicago, moderated by Howard K. Smith and produced by Don Hewitt; in 1966 after settlement of a 79-day sheet metal strike, opening of the Park Lane Centre in Reno was set for February 1, 1967, though openings for some stores in the shopping center were set for November; in 1969 Abbey Road was released in England (on October 1 in the U.S.); in 1977 Georgetown University physicians, in a letter to the American Medical Association, drew attention to four deaths of patients who were taking laetrile, the alleged „cancer cure‰ that was made legal by the Nevada Legislature; in 1981 Nolan Ryan pitched his fifth no-hitter, prompting a round of commentaries about how people can still perform when they get older (Ryan was 34); in 1983 the members of the Australian yacht team became world wide heroes by breaking the 132-year U.S. winning stream to win the Royal Yacht Squadron Cup, informally known as the America‚s Cup; in 1986 Jody Marie Olsen was born in Portland, Oregon; in 2005 the U.S. Department of Transportation designated the new 101-mile Native American Scenic Byway in South Dakota.
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21:00-23:00 GMT/CUT/SUTThe Dean of Reno Bloggers could very well be Andrew Barbano, self-described "fighter of public demons," who started putting his "Barbwire" columns online in 1996 and now runs 10 sites.
September 25
Donald Rumsfeld on Iraq/September 25 2002: We do have a saying in America. If you‚re in a hole, stop digging. Uh˜I‚m not sure I should have said that. Let‚s pretend I never said that.
On this date in 1889, it was reported that Nevada lumber and railroad tycoon Duane L. Bliss had purchased San Francisco‚s Church of the Advent for $50,000; in 1906 in Chilcoot, a tiny town just over the Nevada border in California north of Reno, a saloon owner stood off a mob to protect a man accused of molesting a four year old; in 1924 federal officials ordered that, unless it rained, the water in Lahontan reservoir should be conserved for irrigation instead of used to generate electricity; in 1935 Joseph „Fatso‰ Negri, witness for the government in the trial of Frank Cochran and Tex Hall for harboring Baby Face Nelson in Reno, was seriously burned and injured in a car wreck at Galt, California; in 1942 with Norwegian resistance records in the hands of the Germans but not yet examined, the British sent a Mosquito bomber to Oslo to bomb Gestapo headquarters (it missed the headquarters building but landed in and around a Nazi rally, killing four people and scattering Gestapo agents around the country); in 1953 at the Sub-Treasury Building in New York City, the Wall Street post of the American Legion presented a „Bill of Rights award‰ to U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin; in 1965 in the first episode of the animated Saturday morning cartoon program The Beatles, „A Hard Day‚s Night‰, the fab four tried to escape overenthusiastic fans by going to a haunted castle to rehearse and encounter monsters who were also fans (real Beatles songs were used in the series, though not the real voices for the characters); in 1970 Ringo‚s Beaucoups of Blues album was released; in 1977 at King William‚s Town, the funeral of Steven Biko attracted 20,000 people including ambassadors from western Europe and the U.S. (Biko died of massive head injuries while in South African police custody); in 2000 U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbit ruled that the remains of Kennewick Man are „culturally affiliated‰ with Native Americans and ordered them turned over to five tribes in eastern Washington (federal courts later overruled Babbitt and ordered that scientists be permitted to examine the remains).UPDATE TUESDAY 9-24-2008, 9:59 a.m. PDT, 16:59 GMT/CUT/SUT — On this date in 622, Mohammed arrived in Medina with Abu Bekr after they had fled persecution in Mecca, and they were met at the city gates by a large crowd of followers; in 1864, mine owner and Nevada governor James Nye requested and received two companies of U.S. Army cavalry troops from Fort Churchill to break a miners' labor union in Virginia City; in 1890, faced with federal confiscation of church property and revocation of Mormon civil rights, Latter Day Saints Church President Wilford Woodruff announced "And I now publicly declare that my advice to the Latter-day Saints is to refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land" (Woodruff's language was so indirect that in succeeding days other church spokespeople rushed to assure the public that he had indeed outlawed polygamy); in 1924, William Jennings Bryan arrived in Reno to campaign for the Democratic ticket and found an editorial by the town's Republican Gazette that is a reminder of how much presidential campaigning has changed: "Few are left of those who twenty eight years ago gave the virtually unanimous vote of Nevada to...Bryan for president of the United States but the memory still lives. Without a suspicion of partisan bitterness remaining, Nevadans, Republicans as well as Democrats, always will give him a kindly welcome."; in 1935, after eight year-old Carleton Nichols, Jr., refused to salute the flag in his school in Lynn, Massachusetts, and after the city solicitor said students were not legally required either to salute or to sing the national anthem, the principal nevertheless said he would expel the student unless he complied (the newspapers called the child the "baby pacifist", but religion, not pacifism, was at issue; he was expelled in October and his father fined, and the boy was home schooled thereafter); in 1931, civil engineer J.T. McWilliams made a survey of the site for the new federal building in Las Vegas, then under construction, and reported that the excavation for the structure was 32 feet off; in 1953, at a time when the U.S. government was plotting the overthrow of the peaceful democratic governments of Guatemala and Iran, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles made a speech in St. Louis about "communist leaders who openly repudiate the restraints of moral law"; in 1953, the Gallup Poll reported that those surveyed opposed, by 85 to 8 percent, sending U.S. troops to aid France in its war against the Vietnamese (which was already being paid for by the U.S.); in 1961, after ten years of repetitive formula scripts, I Love Lucy ended its run; in 2002, Prime Minister Tony Blair released a US/British dossier purporting to prove the existence of "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq.
UPDATE TUESDAY 9-23-2008, 7:45 a.m. PDT, 14:45 GMT/CUT/SUT — On this date in 1800, a powerful letter to Benjamin Rush, Thomas Jefferson denounced the influence of religious leaders and vowed "opposition to their schemes" against the public "for I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."; in 1886, the Nevada Press Association's second annual meeting adopted a resolution pledging members not to mention any lawyer's name in news stories unless the lawyer advertised; in 1924 on his campaign swing through the west for the Democratic ticket of John W. Davis for president and his brother Nebraska Governor Charles Bryan for vice-president, William Jennings Bryan spoke in the Nixon Opera House in Winnemucca ("Wonder if Bill Bryan thinks he is his brother's keeper?" asked a newspaper columnist in the Republican Reno Evening Gazette); in 1924, before joining Bryan in Winnemucca, Governor James Scrugham, Senator Tasker Oddie, and several others visited the Lehman caverns; in 1931, a Las Vegas grocery store owner started an effort to get rid of the recently adopted parallel parking favored by the city and reinstate vertical parking; in 1937, a new Greyhound bus, named the Carson City, was dedicated in Nevada's capital with the Stewart Indian School band taking part in the ceremony; in 1944 in a speech at a Teamsters dinner in D.C., President Franklin Roosevelt defended himself, sort of, against false Republican charges that he had accidentally left his pet dog behind on the Aleutians and then sent a U.S. Navy destroyer to retrieve him (see below); in 1950, the Internal Security Act of 1950, sponsored by U.S. Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada, was enacted, providing under Title II, Section 104 (c) for concentration camps in the U.S., which were subsequently set up by the Justice Department on a "stand-by basis" at Allenwood, Pennsylvania; Avon Park, Florida; El Reno, Oklahoma; Florence and Wickenburg, Arizona; and Tule Lake, California (Tule Lake had been the site of a Japanese American internment camp), and contingency lists of names of politically suspect persons to be rounded up for the camps were compiled by J. Edgar Hoover — including that of one of McCarran's cosponsors of the bill, U.S. Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois; in 1951, historian Guy Louis Rocha, administrator of the Nevada state archives and records management programs, was born in Long Beach; in 1952 on the anniversary of FDR's "Fala" speech, U.S. Senator Richard Nixon, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, gave a nationally televised speech about his dog — the "Checkers" speech, defending his acceptance of money from wealthy supporters; in 1955 in the mutilation lynching of Emmett Till, an all white jury acquitted J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, who later sold their confessions to Look magazine for $4,000; in 1967, the cover of Time magazine (cover date September 29) carried a photo of U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk's daughter Margaret and her new husband Guy Smith leaving the church after being married, an interracial marriage in a period when they were still news (Rusk offered his resignation to President Johnson, who refused it); in 1970, Ani DiFranco, Grammy winning singer/songwriter who started her own label (at age 18!), Righteous Babe Records, was born in Buffalo.
Franklin Roosevelt / September 23d 1944: These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog Fala. Well, of course, I don't resent attacks, and my family doesn't resent attacks, but Fala does resent them. You know, Fala is Scotch, and being a Scottie, as soon as he learned that the Republican fiction writers in Congress and out had concocted a story that I had left him behind on the Aleutian Islands and had sent a destroyer back to find him — at a cost to the taxpayers of two or three, or eight or 20 million dollars — his Scotch soul was furious. He has not been the same dog since! I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself — such as that old, worm-eaten chestnut that I have represented myself as indispensable. But I think I have a right to resent, to object to libelous statements about my dog.
UPDATE MONDAY 9-22-2008, 12:06 a.m. PDT, 07:06 GMT/CUT/SUT — On this date in 1892, the Nevada State Journal wrote "There are three parties in Nevada to-day contending for supremacy. Two of them, the Republican and Democratic, represent Wall street ideas, which, as is too well known, bode no good to the State."; in 1908, construction began on the Nevada governors mansion; in 1919, defying a year of corporate terrorism designed to discourage a strike, 365,000 steel workers led by communist William Z Foster went on strike in fifty cities; in 1932, the U.S. Forest Service was doing a survey of the road between Truckee, California, and Lake Tahoe with an eye to straightening and leveling it; in 1935, actress Dorothy Lee, whose Warner Brothers musical short In the Spotlight was playing at Reno's Granada Theatre, arrived in Reno to establish residency for a divorce; in 1939, Sarah Levering, who was reportedly an eyewitness to all three U.S. presidential assassinations, died in Turlock, California; in 1939, about half of the 700 residents of the Comstock pitched in to fight a fire that caused $30,000 in damage and destroyed the physical plants of the California and the Consolidated Virginia mines; in 1941, Eleanor Roosevelt was appointed assistant director of the Office of Civilian Defense but soon stepped down to protect President Roosevelt from critics' attacks over the appointment; in 1944, Maurice Chevalier's secretary received a post card from him in hiding, where he went to escape "cleansing" committees that sprang up in France after D-Day, the post card dispelling rumors that he had been shot as an alleged collaborator: "Telling the truth about me, you will silence the backbiters. I eagerly wish to return to Paris as soon as I can get transportation and to contact again my beloved public. I hope they will be glad to hear the news songs I learned during my temporary seclusion."; in 1944, Franklin Albiston of Elko and Wells serving as crew engineer on a B-24 received the Silver Star for action over Romania and Wallace Lima of Fallon received the Combat Infantryman's Badge for service with the Third Marine division in Italy; in 1945, Lt. General George Patton, the military governor of Bavaria, trivialized the necessity of "this denazification thing", prompting Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower to order an investigation of Patton's administration and summon Patton to Frankfurt for a trip to the woodshed (the investigation found that Patton had left 20 prominent Nazis in office, and Patton finally removed them while retaining his governorship); in 1948, President Truman campaigned in Reno, riding in a parade and then speaking at Powning Park, the first of two presidents to speak in the park (Lyndon Johnson appeared there in 1964); in 1950, Ralph Bunche, grandson of a U.S. slave, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for stepping in after the assassination of his boss Count Bernadotte and negotiating a settlement between Israel and the Arab states; in 1955, it was announced that a U.S. Navy oil tanker would be named the U.S.S. Truckee; in 1956, attorney George Franklin was awarded $190,000 in his libel suit against Las Vegas Sun publisher Hank Greenspun; in 1966, with 500 people in attendance, St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Fallon was dedicated; in 2004, a London to Washington flight was diverted when it was learned that Yusuf Islam, AKA Cat Stevens, was on board and Bush administration officials later said he was barred from flying into the U.S. because they claimed he had an association with terrorists — even though he had met in Washington the previous May with White House officials seeking his help with "faith based" efforts (in 1989 Islam/Stevens had endorsed Iran's death sentence against author Salman Rushdie).
UPDATE SUNDAY 9-21-2008, 12:05 a.m. PDT, 07:05 GMT/CUT/SUT — On this date in 1784, the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser, the first daily U.S. newspaper, began publication; in 1890, Nevada Governor Charles Stevenson died, the first Nevada governor to die in office; in 1894, the Washoe County convention of the People's Party began in Reno, reportedly the largest assemblage in county history (the party was affiliated with Nevada's Silver Party and People's Party presidential nominee James Weaver carried Nevada in 1892); in 1897, the Marysville Appeal reported that two conductors in charge of trains that collided in August near Marysville, California, had been blacklisted from railroad employment throughout the nation; in 1904, Nez Perce Chief Joseph died in Washington; in 1916, Republican presidential nominee Charles Evans Hughes attacked President Wilson for trying to overthrown the Mexican government; in 1937, The Hobbit was published; in 1953, Lowell Landrum, restaurateur and investor in gambling properties (the North Shore Club at Lake Tahoe, the Sahara in Las Vegas, the Palace Club in Reno) whose name endures on tiny cafes in Virginia City and Sparks, died at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles; in 1955, four lesbian couples in San Francisco (including Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin) founded the Daughters of Bilitis, the first homophile organization for women (five decades later, Lyon and Martin became the first same sex couple to legally marry in the United States; Martin is author of Battered Wives, which was enormously influential in fueling the movement against domestic violence and spreading shelter programs in the United States); in 1961, President Kennedy nominated Eva Adams of Nevada to be director of the U.S. Mint; in 1965, Lightnin' Hopkins performed at the Matrix on Fillmore Street in San Francisco, with Jefferson Airplane as the opening act; in 1969, the Nixon administration inadvertently provided compelling evidence that marijuana is a barrier rather than a gateway to harder drugs when it mounted "Operation Intercept" — a massive effort (organized by Gordon Liddy) to stop the flow of marijuana over the border, causing supply in southern California to dry up and the use of smack to skyrocket (physician David Smith said "The fact is that the lack of marijuana leads to more dangerous drugs"); in 1974, Walter Brennan, the only three-time Academy Award winning male actor, died in Oxnard, California [EDITOR'S NOTE: Jack Nicholson has since won three]; in 1983, Reagan Interior Secretary James Watt described the diversity of his staff appointments to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in terms that led to his resignation: "I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple"; in 2001, amid an array of patriotic and belligerent anthems on America/A Tribute to Heroes simulcast on four networks in the U.S. and Britain, was a Neil Young performance of John Lennon's Imagine, which had just been placed on Clear Channel's airplay blacklist; in 2004, Arthur Miller's last play, Finishing the Picture, debuted at Chicago's Goodman Theatre with Heather Prete, Matthew Modine, Harris Yulin, Linda Lavin and Stacy Keach in the cast (the play dealt with Miller's experience with Marilyn Monroe during the filming in Nevada of The Misfits, with Prete playing Monroe and Modine playing Miller).
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UPDATE SATURDAY 9-20-2008, 11:07 a.m. PDT, 18:07 GMT/CUT/SUT — On this date in 1793, Dr. John Mason gave a sermon complaining about the secular nature of the United States Constitution and its failure to endorse or even mention God —"that very Constitution which the singular goodness of God enabled us to establish does not so much as recognize His being! Yes, my brethren, it is a lamentable truth; a truth at the mention of which, shame should crimson our faces." (the lecture helped fuel a new movement to try to amend the Constitution to make it into a Christian document); in 1873, Reno Congregational minister F.R. Girard was directed by the American Home Missionary Society to go to San Bernardino and Rev. W.J. Clark of Iowa City, Iowa was named pastor of Reno's Congregational Church; in 1879, Storey County, normally known for mining and the Comstock Lode, was experiencing a farming boom — four acres of onions and six of wheat and "a whole raft of small patches devoted to other kinds of products"; in 1904, "State of Nevada Day" was held at the World's Fair in St. Louis; in 1911, a work camp for Nevada prison inmates was being set up at the Haff ranch south of Reno in preparation for a crew that would begin building a Reno-to-Carson boulevard; in 1924, George Talbot, federal court master who was hearing a Truckee River water rights case, entered a finding that the water rights of Reno and Sparks were junior to those of the Fallon reclamation project; in 1932, ghost dance prophet Wovoka died on the Walker Lake Reservation; in 1949, Superintendent of Schools Walter Johnson said Las Vegas schools were facing double sessions — and the baby boom had not even hit the schools yet; in 1964, The Beatles played their last concert of their Canadian/U.S. tour, a charity event at New York's Paramount theatre (and that night Ed Sullivan reran their third appearance on his show); in 1968, as Republican vice-presidential candidate Spiro Agnew's plane lifted out of Carson City, Nevada, he wandered down the aisle and — upon spotting sleeping reporter Gene Oishi sleeping in his seat — asked reporters "What's the matter with the fat Jap?" — a comment that became a major campaign issue; in 1972, at the AFL/CIO convention in Las Vegas, (AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer) George Meany and Steelworkers president I.W. Abel quashed a movement to endorse George McGovern's presidential candidacy by throwing their personal prestige into the fight with slashing attacks on McGovern; in 1978, the television series Vegas debuted, lasting three years; in 2006, as part of an ABC interview to promote his latest book, Bill O'Reilly said "the FBI came in and warned me and a few other people at Fox News that al Qaeda had us on a death list", which turned out to be news to both the FBI and the other Fox people.
Kicking Bear (quoting Wovoka): The earth is getting old, and I will make it new for my chosen people, the Indians, who are to inhabit it, and among them will be all those of their ancestors who have died...I will cover the earth with new soil to a depth of five times the height of a man, and under this new soil will be buried the whites...The new lands will be covered with sweet-grass and running water and trees, and herds of buffalo and ponies will stray over it, that my red children may eat and drink, hunt and rejoice.
UPDATE FRIDAY 9-19-2008, 7:36 a.m. PDT, 14:36 GMT/CUT/SUT — On this date in 1819, John Keats wrote To Autumn (see below); in 1857, U.S. merchant Peter Duncan, finding guano deposits on Haiti's Navassa Island, claimed it for the United States (without asking Haiti's permission, naturally), which made it the first U.S. colony (it is still held by the dog-in-the-manger U.S. as an unincorporated, unorganized territory administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service); in 1868, two months after Georgia was readmitted to the union and two weeks after the Georgia Legislature expelled 33 African-American legislators, a group of several hundred Republicans traveling to a meeting in Camilla when whites hidden around the Camilla courthouse square opened fire, killing a dozen and driving the rest out of town where they were repeatedly ambushed along their line of retreat, a massacre that enraged the north, resulting in military rule being reimposed on the state; in 1908, Carson City's Appeal reported rumors that Washoe County deputy sheriff William Maxwell had been selected as the new warden of the Nevada State Prison; in 1911, two hundred and fifty men were employed by Stone and Webster Construction at Verdi building a power plant for the Truckee River General Electric Company; in 1927, Charles Lindbergh visited Reno for three and a half hours on a flying national tour sponsored by millionaire Harry Guggenheim; in 1945, President Truman appointed Harold Burton to be a justice of the United States Supreme Court and the Senate confirmed Burton without any scrutiny the same day; in 1957, the Eisenhower administration detonated an underground atomic bomb at Area 12 in Nevada, then lied about the worldwide detectability of the test in order to avoid a nuclear test ban treaty, a lie later exposed by journalist I.F. Stone in his legendary I.F. Stone's Weekly; in 1992 at a ceremony in New York City, Mayor David Dinkins restored the original Lenape tribe name of Shorakapkok to the area occupied by Inwood Hill Park; in 1995, Talk Like A Pirate Day was observed for the first time (this year, there is an Ayephone available to "talk like a pirate so you don't have to"); in 1997, New York City police officer Lawrence Johnston was suspended without pay when, after he was presented with a medal of valor by the mayor and police commissioner on behalf of the Gay Officers Action League, he returned the medal to the president of the League and made several vulgar homophobic remarks; in 2000, the 1914 Fernley/Lassen Railroad Depot on Fernley's Main Street was placed on the Nevada Register of Historic Places.
To Autumn
by John KeatsSEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies
UPDATE THURSDAY 9-18-2008, 12:41 p.m. PDT, 19:41 GMT/CUT/SUT — On this date in 1851, The New York Times began publication; in 1878, 130 delegates were eligible to attend the Nevada Republican nominating convention at Eureka that nominated Comstock editor Rollin Daggett for the U.S. House of Representatives, John Kinkead for governor, and numerous other candidates; in 1908, the Independence Party of Nevada, arm of William Randolph Hearst's Independent League, filed its petition as a new political party and its slate of candidates at the Nevada secretary of state's office; in 1911 in an editorial, the Reno Evening Gazette expressed approval of lynching; in 1918, Eugene Debs was convicted of violating the Espionage Act by criticizing the Wilson administration and its war (see below) and was later imprisoned from where he was nominated for president by the Socialist Party; in 1924, actress Edna Purviance, the Lovelock woman who was Charlie Chaplin's leading lady in all his early films, testified at the arraignment of Horace Greer, accused of shooting Denver oil man Courtland Dines at a late night Hollywood party attended by Purviance and actress Mabel Normand, a crime that damaged Purviance's public image and plagued her career; in 1939, a ten-foot high marker made of stones from every state in the union and commemorating white settlers who built the Las Vegas fort was dedicated; in 1940, Thomas Wolfe's You Can't Go Home Again was published; in 1948, there was a milk shortage in Reno, leading to speculation that dairy cattle were being butchered because of skyrocketing beef prices; in 1957, the California Labor Federation raised the spectre of pushing for impeachment of President Eisenhower if he failed to resolve the Little Rock integration crisis quickly; in 1978, WKRP in Cincinnati premiered on CBS and lasted until September 20, 1982 (in spite of the network's constant efforts to kill it with repeated preemptions, schedule changes, and one "hiatus"), twice winning the Emmy for outstanding comedy and after cancellation becoming in syndication the biggest hit in the history of MTM Productions; in 1986, Crime Story, a television series set in Las Vegas, debuted on NBC, lasting 43 episodes until May 10, 1988 (the last episode ended in a season-ending cliffhanger that was never resolved because the series was cancelled before the next season started); in 2004 in downtown Reno, a street fair celebrated the centennial of the Nevada Historical Society and the city's first public library.
Eugene V. Debs / September 18, 1918: Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
I listened to all that was said in this court in support and justification of this prosecution, but my mind remains unchanged. I look upon the Espionage Law as a despotic enactment in flagrant conflict with democratic principles and with the spirit of free institutions
Your Honor, I have stated in this court that I am opposed to the social system in which we live; that I believe in a fundamental change — but if possible by peaceable and orderly means.
Standing here this morning, I recall my boyhood. At fourteen I went to work in a railroad shop; at sixteen I was firing a freight engine on a railroad. I remember all the hardships and privations of that earlier day, and from that time until now my heart has been with the working class. I could have been in Congress long ago. I have preferred to go to prison.
I am thinking this morning of the men in the mills and the factories; of the men in the mines and on the railroads. I am thinking of the women who for a paltry wage are compelled to work out their barren lives; of the little children who in this system are robbed of their childhood and in their tender years are seized in the remorseless grasp of Mammon and forced into the industrial dungeons, there to feed the monster machines while they themselves are being starved and stunted, body and soul. I see them dwarfed and diseased and their little lives broken and blasted because in this high noon of Christian civilization money is still so much more important than the flesh and blood of childhood. In very truth gold is god today and rules with pitiless sway in the affairs of men.
In this country — the most favored beneath the bending skies — we have vast areas of the richest and most fertile soil, material resources in inexhaustible abundance, the most marvelous productive machinery on earth, and millions of eager workers ready to apply their labor to that machinery to produce in abundance for every man, woman, and child˜and if there are still vast numbers of our people who are the victims of poverty and whose lives are an unceasing struggle all the way from youth to old age, until at last death comes to their rescue and lulls these hapless victims to dreamless sleep, it is not the fault of the Almighty: it cannot be charged to nature, but it is due entirely to the outgrown social system in which we live that ought to be abolished not only in the interest of the toiling masses but in the higher interest of all humanity.
I believe, Your Honor, in common with all Socialists, that this nation ought to own and control its own industries. I believe, as all Socialists do, that all things that are jointly needed and used ought to be jointly owned — that industry, the basis of our social life, instead of being the private property of a few and operated for their enrichment, ought to be the common property of all, democratically administered in the interest of all.
I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.
This order of things cannot always endure. I have registered my protest against it. I recognize the feebleness of my effort, but, fortunately, I am not alone. There are multiplied thousands of others who, like myself, have come to realize that before we may truly enjoy the blessings of civilized life, we must reorganize society upon a mutual and cooperative basis; and to this end we have organized a great economic and political movement that spreads over the face of all the earth.
There are today upwards of sixty millions of Socialists, loyal, devoted adherents to this cause, regardless of nationality, race, creed, color, or sex. They are all making common cause. They are spreading with tireless energy the propaganda of the new social order. They are waiting, watching, and working hopefully through all the hours of the day and the night. They are still in a minority. But they have learned how to be patient and to bide their time. They feel — they know, indeed — that the time is coming, in spite of all opposition, all persecution, when this emancipating gospel will spread among all the peoples, and when this minority will become the triumphant majority and, sweeping into power, inaugurate the greates social and economic change in history.
In that day we shall have the universal commonwealth — the harmonious cooperation of every nation with every other nation on earth.
Your Honor, I ask no mercy and I plead for no immunity. I realize that finally the right must prevail. I never so clearly comprehended as now the great struggle between the powers of greed and exploitation on the one hand and upon the other the rising hosts of industrial freedom and social justice.
I can see the dawn of the better day for humanity. The people are awakening. In due time they will and must come to their own.
When the mariner, sailing over tropic seas, looks for relief from his weary watch, he turns his eyes toward the southern cross, burning luridly above the tempest-vexed ocean. As the midnight approaches, the southern cross begins to bend, the whirling worlds change their places, and with starry finger-points the Almighty marks the passage of time upon the dial of the universe, and though no bell may beat the glad tidings, the lookout knows that the midnight is passing and that relief and rest are close at hand. Let the people everywhere take heart of hope, for the cross is bending, the midnight is passing, and joy cometh with the morning.
I am now prepared to receive your sentence.
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UPDATE WEDNESDAY 9-17-2008, 8:50 a.m. PDT, 15:50 GMT/CUT/SUT — On this date in 1862 in the battle of Sharpsburg at Antietam Creek in Maryland, 23,100 men died in a single day, the bloodiest day in U.S. military history; in 1871, twenty nine prisoners broke out of the Nevada State Prison in Carson City; in 1874, Orvis Ring was nominated for Washoe County school superintendent by the county Republican convention; in 1911, Reno's new amusement park on Belle Isle ended its first season; in 1923, Hank Williams was born; in 1948, as the postwar red baiting period warmed up, a group called the Committee on Zeal for American Democracy was formed at Reno's State Building, part of an effort promoted across the nation by the National Security Agency; in 1967, after being instructed by Ed Sullivan not to include the word "higher" when singing Light My Fire on the Ed Sullivan Show (the band agreed), The Doors sang it anyway — with emphasis — and were told by a show producer that they would never do the Sullivan show again ("Hey, man, we just did the Sullivan show," Jim Morrison replied); in 1983, Vanessa Williams became the first African-American woman named Miss America; in 1985 at a news conference five years into his presidency, President Reagan finally spoke the acronym AIDS in public: "[I]ncluding what we have in the budget for '86, it will amount to over a half a billion dollars that we have provided for research on AIDS in addition to what I'm sure other medical groups are doing. And we have $100 million in the budget this year; it'll be 126 million next year. So, this is a top priority with us. Yes, there's no question about the seriousness of this and the need to find an answer."; in 1990, during the effort to rev the U.S. public up for war, the Los Angeles Times reported, falsely, that Iraqi soldiers had removed Kuwaiti babies from incubators and left them on the floor to die, a tale repeated by The Washington Post, President Bush the Elder (at least ten times), USA Today, the Associated Press, and a 15 year-old Kuwaiti girl testifying at a congressional hearing who was actually a member of the Kuwait royal family; in 1992, Las Vegas City Life published for the first time; in 1993, Nevada Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa released an analysis of the Nevada Plan For Public Land (an argument that Nevada owned all federally managed land in the state) that concluded the federal government had "firm control on the management of public lands".
