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Monday, February 23, 1931
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The Headlines
POLICE OPEN DRIVE ON ALCOHOL GANGS TO HALT KILLINGS; Detectives Search Speakeasies and All Underworld Haunts in City for Gunmen. INSPECTOR LEADS MAN HUNT No Trace Found of Abe Wagner as Mother Prepares for His Brother's Funeral. GUN BATTLE IN DANCE HALL One Gangster Killed, Another Is Wounded in Shooting in Crowded Brooklyn Resort. Sullivan Loads Man-Hunt. Plea for Truce Answered. Three Shot Here in Day. KILLED IN DANCE-HALL ROW. Brooklyn Man Shot Dead and Another Is Wounded in Gang Feud.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Minnie the Moocher
Cab Calloway
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Charlotte Clark Mickey Mouse
You Share a Birthday With
- George Frideric Handel (1685)
- Karl Jaspers (1883)
- Kazimir Malevich (1878)
- Pope Paul II (1417)
- Erich Kästner (1899)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
damefellaswelllousy
Hardboiled
clip jointgriftershamusgunsel
Swing Era
alligatorjitterbugkiller dillerin the groove
Tech Check
Electric Guitar, Electron Microscope & Radio Telescope.
Cost of Living (1930)
Loaf of Bread
$0.09
Gallon of Gas
$0.20
Average Home
$3,900
New Car
$640
Meanwhile
- The Great Depression — GDP fell 30%; triggered by Black Tuesday (1929-10-29).
Time Elapsed
34,801 days ago
(95 years, 126 days)