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Monday, August 30, 1926
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The Headlines
BAKER URGES ALLIES AND UNITED STATES TO ERASE WAR DEBTS; Ex-Secretary Proposes Mutual Cancellation Around Table at International Conference. ATTACKS AMERICAN STAND Asserts We Should Reconsider British Settlement and French Terms. WOULD EASE GERMAN LOAD Declares Public Has Been Shackled as Lloyd George and Clemenceau Were at Versailles.
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
- Ernest Rutherford (1871)
- Mary Shelley (1797)
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852)
- Jacques-Louis David (1748)
- Edward Mills Purcell (1912)
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
36,440 days ago
(99 years, 305 days)