My mother makes synthetic gin
My sister makes love for a dollar
My god how the money rolls in.
My brother's a young missionary
Who saves young people from sin.
He'll save you a blonde for ten dollars
My god how the money rolls in . . .
— Vance Randolph, Unprintable:
Ozark Folksongs & Folklore
Edited with an introduction by Gershon Legman
Majestic Web version, in full, about 91 entries:
http://www.recollectionbooks.
Excerpts:
MAY 9
JOHN BROWN
Radical abolitionist. "His truth goes marchin' on."
ASTRONOMY DAY. Look up. (after de sun goes down is best)
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1432 -- Charges of Witchcraft dismissed against Margery
Jourdemain, John Virley, & John Ashwell, in England. They're
executed for littering instead.
1785 -- Pumpin' Iron? Joseph Bramah receives British patent
for beer pump handles.
1800 -- US: John Brown, anti-slavery freedom fighter, who attempted
a guerilla war in the very heart of the south, lives.
There's a flutter in the Southland, a tremor in the air;
For the rice-plains are invaded, the cotton fields laid bare;
And the cry of "Help" and "Treason" rings aloud from tongue
and pen John Brown has crossed the border with a host of
fifteen men.
— "A Plea for Captain John Brown"
by Henry David Thoreau
1878 -- Neno Vasco (1878-1920) lives.
Portuguese lawyer, journalist & libertarian.
Vasco was part of a group of students of the University of
Coimbra who became anarchists at the start of the century.
Active in both Brazil & Portugal, & one of the most influential
militant libertarians in those countries.
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1883 -- Philosopher José Ortega y Gasset lives, Madrid, Spain.
Wrote The Revolt of the Masses, characterizing 20th-century
society as dominated by masses of mediocre & indistinguishable
individuals. His ideas converged with other 'mass society'
theorists such as Karl Mannheim, Erich Fromm & Hannah Arendt.
In exile during the Spanish Revolution, refusing to support either
side or hold academic office under Franco.
1897 -- U.S. cruiser ordered to Honduras to "protect U.S. interests".
1898 - Marcel Wullens lives (1898-1928). French
militant libertarian & syndicalist who participated, with his
brother Maurice, in the review "Les humbles," the journal
"L'insurgé," & helped found "La révolution prolétarienne"
& later became an organizer, with Andre Breton & Leon
Trotsky, of the F.I.A.R.I.
1921 -- Radical priest, anti-war activist & christian anarchist
Daniel Berrigan lives. Loves to burn draft records.
J. Edgar Hoover & his elegant crew of FBI guys have the same
affinity for Berrigan as for Martin Luther King, Jr. — trying to
smear & destroy him & also his brother Philip (a then Josephite
priest also doing God's work as a christian anarchist).
J. Edgar, now best-known for his peculiar interpretation of
"dress code," went so far as to publicly call Howard Zinn &
Berrigan "traitors" for going to North Vietnam & securing the
first release of American POWs.
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1927 -- Debut of Felix the Cat in daily comic strip.
Felix the Cat is God.
1932 -- US: Real Class Act? Rockefeller boards up Diego Rivera's
mural at Rockefeller Center, NYC.
1933 -- First Nazi-inspired mass public book-burning, Germany.
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1961 -- FCC chairman Newton Minow decries,
"If you were tune in one channel & watch it from sign-on to
sign-off, what you would find is a vast electronic wasteland."
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1962 -- Beatles sign their first contract with EMI Pstlophone,
after being turned down at Decca with the infamous
"Guitar bands are on the way out."
1967 -- Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) stripped of his
heavyweight boxing title after being indicted for refusing
to accept induction into the army.
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1970 -- Five days after the Kent State killings, 100,000 march in
Washington, D.C. against Vietnam War. About 600 Canadian
protesters deface the Peace Arch at the U.S.-Canadian border at
Blaine, Washington.
1973 -- End of American Indian Movement occupation of Wounded
Knee, South Dakota. Protesters & US sign agreement in which the
government agrees to examine Lakota treaty rights; due to
government inaction, surprisingly, the treaty never takes effect.
1974 -- Impeachment hearings against Beloved & Respected
Comrade Leader Richard "Tricky Dick" m Nixon begin.
"The American people deserve to know
whether or not their President is a crook."
(What? Was there a question?)
1977 -- James Jones dies. Wrote From Here to Eternity. Sounds
like a lot of writing.
"[I]ts largely a matter of luck that decided whether or not you get killed.
It doesn't make any difference who you are, how tough you
are, how nice a guy you might be, or how much you may
know, if you happen to be at a certain spot at a certain time,
you get it.
— James Jones, letter to his brother, Jeff Jones, from
Guadalcanal, January 28, 1943
1999 -- Protests at US embassies in Beijing & around the
world after the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade is hit in a bungled
NATO air strike.
1999 -- US: Karl Yoneda, aged 92, dies.
As a student Yoneda read the works of Marx & the Russian anarchist
Vasily Eroshenko. He studied with Eroshenko & took dictation.
Yoneda later became an organizer for the Communist Party in Los
Angeles.
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2000 -- US: Belly Up To The Bar? Fire destroys a Wild Turkey distillery near
Frankfort, Kentucky; bourbon runoff into the Kentucky River subsequently
causes a massive fish kill.
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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids both
rich & poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the
streets, & to steal bread."
— Anatole France
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— Auntie Majestic 2010 or so, most probably
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