Today -100: January 20, 1925: No practical work can be accomplished by yelling

Hans Luther appears before the Reichstag as German chancellor for the first time, to continuous interruptions from Communist deputies. Pissed off, he tells them, “I think I voice the feelings of the entire body when I tell you that no practical work can be accomplished by yelling.” Boy, he doesn’t know his country very well, does he.

The B’nai Sholem Temple Israel of Chicago is bombed, but it’s not anti-semitism: the temple was just sold to a black congregation.

Headline of the Day -100:  

Sadly, that’s actually Sol Bloom and not, as the NYT Index would have it, Sloom, because “Congressman Sloom Has Quinsy” sounds like a lesser Dr. Seuss book (today -100, by the way, Theodor Geisel is still at Dartmouth, a few months from adopting the moniker Dr. Seuss so he could secretly continue publishing in the college humor magazine after being caught hosting a gin party and possibly peeing out the window [he said it was seltzer] and being banned by Dean Craven Laycock – which is more... Dickens? Wodehouse?... than Seuss, really – from extracurriculars).

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