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Saturday, February 26, 1927
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The Headlines
FARM LEADERS WILL FIGHT; Will Make Coolidge Veto an Issue in Electing Party Delegates. OPPOSE ANY CONSERVATIVE Threaten an Alliance With Low Tariff Advocates to Demand Farm Plank in Platform. CHANCE FOR DAWES IS SEEN Longworth Also Discussed as a Compromise Nominee in Contest Between West and East. FIGHT ON THE VETO BY FARM LEADERS
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
- Victor Hugo (1802)
- Christopher Marlowe (1564)
- Nadezhda Krupskaya (1861)
- François Arago (1786)
- Giulio Natta (1903)
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
36,259 days ago
(99 years, 124 days)