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Wednesday, December 12, 1928
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The Headlines
WHALEN IS EXPECTED TO HEAD THE POLICE; Mayor Talks With Warren, Who Refuses to Quit, but Action Is Looked For This Week. SPLIT ON ROTHSTEIN CASE Commissioner Backs Aides, but Walker Holds That Bungling Forced Banton to Act. Banton and Tuttle Elicit Facts. WHALEN IS EXPECTED TO HEAD THE POLICE Warren and Mayor Again Confer. Urged Warren to Take Post.
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
- Gustave Flaubert (1821)
- Frank Sinatra (1915)
- Edvard Munch (1863)
- Alfred Werner (1866)
- Edward G. Robinson (1893)
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
35,604 days ago
(97 years, 199 days)