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Thursday, October 7, 1926
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The Headlines
LABOR DENOUNCES DETROIT CHURCHES; REJECTS NEW OFFER; Torrents of Denunciation Also Hit the Y.M.C.A. and Auto Makers in Convention. ACCUSATIONS ARE RESENTED Union Chiefs Charge Employers Are Slackers and Profiteers and Assert Plot to Cut Wages. GREEN IS AGAIN INVITED But He Declines to Speak t Meeting Arranged by the Federal Council of Churches. LABOR DENOUNCES DETROIT CHURCHES
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
- Niels Bohr (1885)
- Heinrich Himmler (1900)
- Henry A. Wallace (1888)
- Charles XIII (1748)
- June Allyson (1917)
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
36,401 days ago
(99 years, 266 days)