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Tuesday, May 31, 1927
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The Headlines
'AMERICAN LOCARNO' TO RENOUNCE WAR OFFERED IN TREATY; Compact Based on Briand Plea, Framed by Shotwell and Chamberlain, Backed by Butler. A MEMORIAL TO OUR DEAD Would Pledge World Powers Not to Take Up Arms Against Each Other. SOVEREIGN RIGHTS INTACT Defensive Warfare Defined and Entanglements of League Covenant Avoided. 'AMERICAN LOCARNO' TO RENOUNCE WAR
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
36,166 days ago
(99 years, 31 days)