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Tuesday, March 6, 1934

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The Headlines

LEHMAN MESSAGE URGES EXEMPTIONS IN GROSS TAX LEVY; He Also Attacks Republican Effort to Impose 2 Per Cent Sales Impost. CONDEMNS MONEY BILLS Governor Denounces Effort to Unbalance Budget as Means of Forcing Sales Plan. 30 GROUPS JOIN IN FIGHT Grange and Doctors Aid Foes of Measure -- Whalen Sees Recovery Hampered. LEHMAN URGES CUT IN GROSS TAX LEVY

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Blue Moon

Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart

The must-have

Sorry! (Board Game)

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

damefellaswelllousy

Hardboiled

clip jointgriftershamusgunsel

Swing Era

alligatorjitterbugkiller dillerin the groove

Catchphrases of 1934

  • It happened one night

Tech Check

Cat's Eye Road Studs, Telex & Hammond Organ.

Cost of Living (1930)

Loaf of Bread

$0.09

Gallon of Gas

$0.20

Average Home

$3,900

New Car

$640

Time Elapsed

33,694 days ago

(92 years, 114 days)