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Tuesday, June 28, 1921
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The Headlines
REFORMERS FAIL TO STOP BIG FIGHT; No Injunction Asked for Yet, but Bureau May Act Later. OFFICIALS SUPPORT BOUT Governor Edwards, Chairman Doherty and Others Say It Is Legal. Sees No Reason for Injunction. REFORMERS FAIL TO STOP BIG FIGHT Governor Sees No Obstacle. Doherty Defends Bout. Jack Kearns Not Worried.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
The Sheik of Araby
Harry B. Smith & Ted Snyder
The must-have
Raggedy Andy
On This Day
Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712)
- Peter Paul Rubens (1577)
- Luigi Pirandello (1867)
- Henry VIII (1491)
- Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
Tech Check
Robots (The Term 'Robot'), Polygraph (Modern) & Insulin (Medical Tech).
Cost of Living (1920)
Loaf of Bread
$0.11
Gallon of Gas
$0.30
Average Home
$6,296
New Car
$575
Meanwhile
- Post-WWI Recession — Severe deflation and collapse of agricultural prices.
Time Elapsed
38,328 days ago
(105 years, 3 days)