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Tuesday, March 13, 1928
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The Headlines
SMITH CALLS ON CITY FOR $100,000 TO PAY FOR SEWERS INQUIRY; Acts on Request From Shearn That Large Sum Is Needed to Keep Investigation Going. LAW PLACES COST ON CITY Mayor May Be Asked to Force Queens Engineer, Who Is Missing, to Testify. PHILLIPS IN MIAMI HOSPITAL Telephones to Secretary 'to Tell All' About '$44,000 Dinner Set' That Contractors Gave Him.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Makin' Whoopee
Walter Donaldson
The must-have
Mickey Mouse Doll
You Share a Birthday With
- Giorgos Seferis (1900)
- Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1741)
- Pope Innocent XII (1615)
- John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899)
- Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
Tech Check
Electric Razor, Penicillin & Bubble Gum.
Cost of Living (1920)
Loaf of Bread
$0.11
Gallon of Gas
$0.30
Average Home
$6,296
New Car
$575
Time Elapsed
35,879 days ago
(98 years, 109 days)