WEEKLY HUMOR
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1919: Senate Rejects Treaty of Versailles for Having Suspicious Foreign-Sounding Name. 1920: Women Experience Futility of Voting Firsthand. 1921: Humane Loophole in Immigration Quotas Lets Some Foreigners Enter U.S. as Livestock. 1925: Heisenberg Says Uncertainty Principle May or May Not Be Greatest Discovery Ever. 1927: Parisian Hijacker Forces Charles Lindbergh to Make Nonstop Transatlantic Flight at Gunpoint. 1927: Supreme Court Rules Films Do Not Have Right to Remain Silent. 1928: Babe Ruth Seldom Gets to First, Admits Wife. 1929: Stock Market Crash Linked to Jews, Blacks, Catholics, Radicals, Foreigners and Anyone Who Looks Funny. 1929: Al Capone Denies Murder for Profit Allegations, Insists Gangland Slayings "Purely for Fun." 1933: U.S. Goes Off Gold Standard, Adopts Moldy Crust of Bread Standard. 1933: FDR's "The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Eleanor" Speech Calms Nation. 1933: New Deal, Same Deck. 1933: First Woman Cabinet Member, Frances Perkins, Celebrates by Getting Coffee for Other Cabinet Members. 1934: Newborn Ralph Nader Files Suit Against Mother for Ejecting Him Into Hostile, Unsafe Environment. | |||
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