Back 100 years - Tuesday 28 August 1917

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The Day

It was Tuesday, under the sign of Virgo. The US president was Woodrow Wilson (Democratic). Famous people born on this day include Antonio Basurto(Italian singer, who died in Rome on 20 December 2007) and Jayne Rosen(American entertainer, singer and actress, who worked as Lawrence Welk's Champagne Lady from 1940 until 1945.).

A Children

Boris Pasternak said this day: "We are all children, and I am of course no exception. The war is at fault for the four year stagnation in the history of humanity, and that it was seen as the calm before the storm. Special are the military children, for there is a perfect harmony between the righteousness of their actions, and the sin that resides within them.
I think that the production of age and the limits of an individual’s life is a matter of history, or a matter of culture, or however you see it - but it is not the work of a cell, which is not in a position to develop age (mental maturity)."

Pacifists

The NYC magistrates’ Board, looking for a way to crack down on street-corner speeches by pacifists, decides that the laws on disorderly conduct cover them.

Proposals

President Wilson rejects Pope Benedict XV's peace proposals.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=940CEFDC123FE433A2575AC2A96E9C946696D6CF

The War

Examination of suspected spies in Bojan, Bukovina.
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Source: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/9200291/BibliographicResource_3000073493376.html?utm_source=api&utm_medium=api&utm_campaign=api2demo

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