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Saturday, September 5, 1931
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The Headlines
20 DIE IN BARCELONA AS STRIKE IS BROKEN IN ALL-DAY BATTLE; Syndicalists Are Routed by Machine Guns and Hand-toHand Fights in Streets.10,000 TROOPS IN ACTIONMany Rioters Yield and SomeAre Shot Trying to Escape--Cavalry Charges Mob. WOMEN AID BOTH SIDES A Few Join In Shooting and Many Wives Start Counter-Strikes toSend Husbands Back to Work. Extremists Refuse to Quit. Roads Still Entrenched. Twenty or More Slain. BARCELONA STRIKE CRUSHED IN BATTLE Ship Parties Landed. Shout for Soviet. President Macia Criticized. One Killed at Cordoba.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Louis XIV (1638)
- Caspar David Friedrich (1774)
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888)
- Tommaso Campanella (1568)
- John Cage (1912)
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
34,607 days ago
(94 years, 297 days)