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Saturday, April 28, 1923

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The Headlines

PRESIDENT DECIDES TO USE NAVY TO WAR ON RUM SMUGGLERS; Awaits Only Formal Opinion by Daugherty as to Right to Employ the Vessels. NAVAL OFFICERS OPPOSE Meanwhile Hughes Has Again Asked Britain to Co-operate to Check Rum Running. PUTS LONDON IN QUANDARY British Officials Want to Help, but They Face Delicate Situa- tion at Home. TO USE NAVY IN WAR ON RUM SMUGGLERS

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Yes! We Have No Bananas

Frank Silver & Irving Cohn

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush

Flapper

bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy

Gangster

big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy

Catchphrases of 1923

  • Yes, We Have No Bananas

Tech Check

Bulldozer, 16mm Film & Hearing Aid (Vacuum Tube).

Cost of Living (1920)

Loaf of Bread

$0.11

Gallon of Gas

$0.30

Average Home

$6,296

New Car

$575

Time Elapsed

37,660 days ago

(103 years, 65 days)