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Thursday, June 24, 1926
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The Headlines
CAILLAUX ENTERS BRIAND'S CABINET AS FINANCE CHIEF; Economy Is His Policy and He Gets Restricted Decree Powers Over Expenditures. MINISTRY LEANS TO LEFT Poincare, Painleve and Doumer Are Dropped by Briand in Forming It. CHAMBER SUPPORT IN DOUBT Majority for New Government Is Said to Depend on the Kind of Program Presented. CAILLAUX ENTERS BRIAND'S CABINET
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Black Bottom
Ray Henderson
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
You Share a Birthday With
- Ambrose Bierce (1842)
- Victor Hess (1883)
- Juan Manuel Fangio (1911)
- Ernesto Sabato (1911)
- Fred Hoyle (1915)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
Tech Check
Liquid Fuel Rocket, Talking Movies (Vitaphone) & Aerosol Spray Can.
Cost of Living (1920)
Loaf of Bread
$0.11
Gallon of Gas
$0.30
Average Home
$6,296
New Car
$575
Time Elapsed
36,507 days ago
(100 years, 7 days)