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Friday, September 2, 1927
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The Headlines
CALLES SEES RIFT DUE TO 'INDECISION' BY UNITED STATES; Mexican President in Message to Congress Calls Relations Regrettable. ASKS CONCRETE COMPLAINT He Says Accepting Mexico's Right to Own Laws Would End Disagreement. UPHOLDS RELIGIOUS ACTS Expelling of Foreigners Was Step to "Cleanse" Country of Harmful Elements, He Declares. CALLES SEES RIFT DUE TO 'INDECISION'
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
- Wilhelm Ostwald (1853)
- Frederick Soddy (1877)
- Liliʻuokalani (1838)
- Bill Shankly (1913)
- Arthur Ashkin (1922)
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
36,071 days ago
(98 years, 301 days)