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Sunday, December 30, 1928

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The Headlines

81 SEIZED BY POLICE IN SECOND ROUND-UP; CORDES IS SUSPENDED; Honor Detective Faces Trial for Breaking Rules in Arrest in Rothstein Case. McMANUS RECORD LACKING 11 Gunmen and Murder Suspects Among Prisoners--Brooklyn Combed for Capone Gang. 30 SPEAKEASIES INVADED Doors Are Smashed With Axes When Entrance Is Barred--Raids Made in All Sections. Speakeasies Also Raided. Finds Many Places Closed Up. 81 SEIZED BY POLICE IN SECOND ROUND-UP Cordes Suspended by Whalen. Missing Records Obtained. Won't Favor Cordes on Record. McManus's Counsel Vexed at Move Insists Law Forbade Removal. Cordes Honored Eight Times.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Makin' Whoopee

Walter Donaldson

The must-have

Mickey Mouse Doll

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush

Flapper

bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy

Gangster

big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy

Catchphrases of 1928

  • I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream

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

35,587 days ago

(97 years, 182 days)