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Tuesday, May 3, 1927
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The Headlines
SHANGHAI AMERICANS ARE URGED TO ASK US TO JOIN ULTIMATUM; Proposed Petition Calls Upon Coolidge to Exact Reparation for Outrages and Looting. PARLEYS HELD FRUITLESS Facts Are Known, It Is Said, and Appeal Is Made to 'Keep Faith in Our Hour of Need.' NO NEW NOTE IS IN SIGHT State Department Says Early Action Will Not Be Taken on Eugene Chen's Unsatisfactory Reply. WANT US TO JOIN POWERS' ULTIMATUM
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
- Niccolò Machiavelli (1469)
- Golda Meir (1898)
- Bing Crosby (1903)
- Pete Seeger (1919)
- George Paget Thomson (1892)
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
36,193 days ago
(99 years, 58 days)