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Tuesday, July 7, 1931
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The Headlines
ROOSEVELT ASSAILS '10-LAYER' TAX LOAD AS OUTWORN RELIC; Governor, in Virginia Institute Speech, Lays Excess to 'Too Much Local Government.' URGES MODERN REMOLDING He Calls for Reducing and Simplifying Forms of 'Ox-Cart Age' to Meet Changed Conditions. FOR PLANNING BY STATES Opposing Any "Federal Yardstick," He Advocates "Jeffersonian" Way to Readjust Country for Future. Multiplicity of Government Units. ROOSEVELT ASSAILS '10-LAYER' TAX LOAD Looks to "Rural Industrialists." His "Future" Hailed By Pollard.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Minnie the Moocher
Cab Calloway
The must-have
Charlotte Clark Mickey Mouse
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
34,667 days ago
(94 years, 357 days)