If you want to know what was going on in the world back then all you do is watch The Stooges. They covered (spoofed!) it all! Polio, Lindberg baby, The Great Depression, Hitler, Tojo, prohibition, Quack Drs., gangsters, the list goes on...! Oh, and tassels! Didn't the Italian fascists wear tassels on their belts and the Spanish Fascists on their hats?! You had to tickle Curley's feet to bring him out of his rage!