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Friday, May 16, 1919
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PREDICT GERMANS WILL FIND A WAY TO ACCEPT TREATY; Believed in Paris That Most of the Protests Are Merely Propaganda. WEEK MORE FOR OBJECTION Council of Four Rejects Labor Proposals, Declaring That the Treaty Covers Them. BROCK DORFF MAKES THREAT Tells German Delegation Terms Cannot Be Signed in Their Present Form. Organized to Deal with Protests. Hint Brockdorff Will Resign. ALLIES EXPECT GERMANS TO SIGN See Propaganda in Protests.
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A naval Curtiss NC-4 aircraft commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Henry Fonda (1905)
- Pope Innocent XI (1611)
- Celâl Bayar (1883)
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718)
- William H. Seward (1801)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
lousysnapshotmovies
Soldiers
over the topblightyno man's landcooties
Suffragette
deeds not wordsvotes for women
Tech Check
Pop-Up Toaster, Shortwave Radio & Arc Welding.
Cost of Living (1910)
Loaf of Bread
$0.06
Gallon of Gas
$0.15
Average Home
$3,600
New Car
$950
Time Elapsed
39,103 days ago
(107 years, 48 days)