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Wednesday, March 16, 1927
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The Headlines
FORD WILL TESTIFY AS SAPIRO WITNESS; SIX WOMEN ON JURY; Auto Maker Agrees to Take the Stand Monday in $1,000,000 Libel Suit Against Him. JURORS QUICKLY CHOSEN Plaintiff Rejects Ex-Klansman and Defense Declines to Accept Two Jews. SAPIRO LOSES TWO MOTIONS ' Truth' Plea Stays In -- Gallagher in Opening Says Weekly Paper Is Ford's Mouthpiece. FORD WILL TESTIFY AS SAPIRO WITNESS
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
My Blue Heaven
Walter Donaldson
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
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
36,241 days ago
(99 years, 106 days)