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Sunday, May 12, 1929
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The Headlines
TARIFF CONCESSIONS MADE TO CORN BELT DISSENTERS; SUGAR TRUST AID CHARGED; COMPROMISES AGREED ON House Leaders Heed the Demands of Objectors to Farm Schedules. CONCEDE ON LOCAL ITEMS Changes in Commodities of National Interest to Be Decided on Floor. RAINEY ATTACKS TAFT Declares Latter, as President, and Wickersham Allowed 'Sugar Trust Thieves' to 'Escape.'
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
- Florence Nightingale (1820)
- Katharine Hepburn (1907)
- Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895)
- Dorothy Hodgkin (1910)
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828)
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
35,454 days ago
(97 years, 49 days)