April 22: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
ON THIS DAY IN 1926, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “Elizabeth — II? The birth of a daughter to the Duke and Duchess of York again gives those who like to speculate upon the course of the future plenty to talk about. The Prince of Wales has been credited with frequent declarations that he won’t marry. Although he is annually engaged by the wiseacres to this princess and that, and even occasionally to an American beauty, he goes his way regardless, a bachelor prince if ever there was one. So far he has shown no intention of providing an heir to the throne. And so the daughter of the Duke of York becomes an important person despite the fact that she is not yet a week old.”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1928, Eagle columnist Frederick Boyd Stevenson wrote, “Whether you be a Wet or a Dry, you will have to look at this Prohibition question in a practical manner. If you be a Wet and win at the next national election you may throw up your hat and yell ‘Hoorah!’ till your breath fails you, but you will not have made the United States wet at the polls by yelling. If you be a Dry and win, you will be just where you are now. That is the big crossword puzzle. The Constitution of the United States of America was not built up by article by article and amendment by amendment to be tilted over like a baby’s house of blocks. The gentlemen who constructed that instrument made it to stand. They made it like our builders put up our tall steel buildings today — other stories can be added to it, but under stories cannot be pulled out. In other words: Amendments have been added, but not one of those amendments has been repealed.”