Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tale that he had lost in transit the $100,000 certified check which was to have cinched his city's bid. This yarn fizzled when the folk back home revealed that the check was for only $26,650, that it was never lost, that the episode was "a joke which somebody took seriously." More creditable was Denver's stunt of exporting a bevy of beauties to distribute gratis 46,000 Colorado peaches...
...even after the company had the Crempa land condemned and posted the awarded $800 with the court, Crempa refused to take it, raised his price to $150,000. He began a one-man revolution, enthusiastically aided by all his neighbors (TIME, Feb. 11). For eight years it remained a joke on Public Service. Last week the joke twisted into tragedy...
...Insider was Robert Maestri, Louisiana Conservation Commissioner. Between him and the Kingfish existed complete understanding and a private joke. When Long was elected Governor in 1928 a New Orleans publisher collected a fund to buy him a set of table silver. Mr. Maestri's check, however, was righteously returned because nice people looked askance at the source of his family's fortune. Thereupon Mr. Maestri purchased a $2,500 emerald & diamond scarf pin for the Governor which the Governor wore and laughed about all over the State...
...Carrel is a great scientist, an avid mystic who knows no intellectual bonds. He is, besides, a sly mocker who delights in wild rant. Whether his thesis of iatrocracy was meant to be a colossal joke with which to fool members of his profession or whether he offered it in all earnestness with the idea that it would add to his stature as a world thinker he alone knew last week...
...Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. gave his chauffeur a $20 bill to buy groceries, was surprised when the local bank declared it counterfeit, sent it back. In Washington he handed the same bogus bill to his chief clerk, asked for change, got it. Declared Secretary Morgenthau: "The joke's really on the chief clerk...