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Friday, November 23, 1923

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The Headlines

GROWING PROTEST AGAINST LETTING CRAIG GO TO JAIL; Justice Ford Talks of Judicial Tyranny and Amos Pinchot Calls Sentence 'Monstrous.' DARES MAYER TO JAIL HIM Controller's Friends See Pardon by Coolidge as Only Hope to Avert Prison Term. REPUBLICANS ARE WORRIED Fear Political Effect of Imprisonment -- Movement to Have Congress Curb Bench's Power. PROTEST IS GROWING ON GRAIG SENTENCE

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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

37,451 days ago

(102 years, 221 days)