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Tuesday, November 10, 1931
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The Headlines
GOVERNOR REFUSES TO AID HIS BOOM; Western Friends Feel if He Put Hat in Ring Now It Might Halt a Counter-Drive. PLEDGES OF VOTES ARRIVE He Is 'Too Busy' to Think of a Campaign--Cost of Pension for Aged Up $1,500,000. Assurances From the West. GOVERNOR REFUSES TO AID HIS BOOM Old-Age Pensions to Cost More. To Leave for South Next Week.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Minnie the Moocher
Cab Calloway
The must-have
Charlotte Clark Mickey Mouse
You Share a Birthday With
- Martin Luther (1483)
- Friedrich Schiller (1759)
- Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919)
- Ennio Morricone (1928)
- Richard Burton (1925)
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
34,542 days ago
(94 years, 232 days)