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On the date
Saturday, December 3, 1927
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The Headlines
LEFKOWITZ GUILTY IN DROWNING OF BOY; Instigator of Insurance Plot Convicted in First Degree -Greenberg Is Freed. JURY DELIBERATES 7 HOURS Death Sentence to Be Imposed Tuesday on Prisoner for Gravesend Bay Crime. LEFKOWITZ GUILTY IN DROWNING OF BOY
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
- Joseph Conrad (1857)
- France Prešeren (1800)
- Rajendra Prasad (1884)
- Charles VI of France (1368)
- Manne Siegbahn (1886)
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
35,980 days ago
(98 years, 210 days)