Today -100: November 28, 1925: They’ve scraped Hell with a fine-tooth comb and they’ve found nothing

The German Reichstag ratifies the Locarno treaties, 291 to 174, and authorizes the government to apply for membership in the League of Nations. 

Bells are installed under each seat in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, just in case deputies would like to drown out, say, a Communist deputy.

Aristide Briand manages to form a Cabinet.

Reporters who thought they’d be having a press conference with Texas Gov. Miriam Ferguson are instead presented with her husband, former impeached governor James Ferguson, described as “a tall, lean, hard-bitten man of the shrewd farmer type,” who explains that his wife is too tired from shaking hands at the Thanksgiving football game between the U of Texas and the Aggies. In the two-hour presser, Ferguson doesn’t quite dispel the notion that he’s the person really running the state, repeatedly deploying the pronoun “we,” as in “We haven’t decided whether we will run for governor again,” and even saying “I” came second in the first primary. He says the impeachment talk is from a dastardly coalition of the Klan and supporters of other candidates for governor next year. He denies selling pardons. He admits that road contractors have been making huge profits, but attributes it to the good weather. He says “They’ve scraped Hell with a fine-tooth comb and they’ve found nothing.” Ferguson, who during his own impeachment 12 years ago refused to say who had given him a $156,000 loan, now admits it was 3 brewers supporting his anti-prohibition stance.

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