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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

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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

Catchphrases of 1927

  • You ain't heard nothin' yet!

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)