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Saturday, January 12, 1929
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The Headlines
HOUSE PASSES BILL FOR REAPPORTIONING; Fenn Measure Adopted Without Record Vote, but Test Shows 226 For, 134 Against. BLACK ASSAILS THE DRYS Measure Sets Up Machinery for Shifting Representation of States in 1930. Seven-Year Fight Ended. Foes Near Victory. HOUSE PASSES BILL FOR REAPPORTIONING Black Assails the Drys. 23 Seats to Be Shifted.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Singin' in the Rain
Nacio Herb Brown
The must-have
Duncan Yo-Yo
You Share a Birthday With
- Jack London (1876)
- Swami Vivekananda (1863)
- Edmund Burke (1729)
- Hermann Göring (1893)
- Charles Perrault (1628)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
Tech Check
Car Radio, Sunglasses (Mass Produced) & Coaxial Cable.
Cost of Living (1920)
Loaf of Bread
$0.11
Gallon of Gas
$0.30
Average Home
$6,296
New Car
$575
Time Elapsed
35,573 days ago
(97 years, 168 days)