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Thursday, May 21, 1925

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The Headlines

Front Page 1 -- No Title; REICHSTAG BACKS UP LUTHER'S PROGRAM; STORM OVER TARIFF Socialist Motion for a Vote of Lack of Confidence Is Defeated, 214 to 129. DUTIES ON FOOD ATTACKED Government's Proposals Condemned by Left Parties as a Proof of Junker Domination. VOTE ON FLAG IS SOUGHT Schiele Also Suggests Abrogation of the Law for the Protection of the Republic. REICHSTAG BACKS UP LUTHER'S PROGRAM

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

Walter Donaldson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

On This Day

  • The opera Doktor Faust, unfinished when composer Ferruccio Busoni died, is premiered in Dresden.

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Slang

Slang of the decade

General

applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush

Flapper

bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy

Gangster

big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy

Catchphrases of 1925

  • The business of America is business

Tech Check

Mechanical Television, The Leica I & Masking Tape.

Cost of Living (1920)

Loaf of Bread

$0.11

Gallon of Gas

$0.30

Average Home

$6,296

New Car

$575

Time Elapsed

36,905 days ago

(101 years, 40 days)