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Monday, January 31, 1927
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The Headlines
STATE REPUBLICANS WILL TRY TO BALK SMITH'S CANDIDACY; Strategists at Albany Plan to Hamper His Growth as National Figure. FEAR LOSS OF STATE IN 1928 This Would Fill Albany Offices With Democrats for Four Years, They Fear. BOTH SIDES ARE CAUTIOUS Governor's Law Enforcement Stand Foils Efforts to Fan Dry Anger Against Him. WILL TRY TO BALK SMITH'S CANDIDACY
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
My Blue Heaven
Walter Donaldson
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
You Share a Birthday With
- Franz Schubert (1797)
- Norman Mailer (1923)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Alva Myrdal (1902)
- Irving Langmuir (1881)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
Tech Check
Electronic TV (Philo Farnsworth), Jukebox (Automatic) & Iron Lung.
Cost of Living (1920)
Loaf of Bread
$0.11
Gallon of Gas
$0.30
Average Home
$6,296
New Car
$575
Time Elapsed
36,286 days ago
(99 years, 151 days)