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Saturday, April 28, 1934
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The Headlines
TAX UPON BUSINESS HELD SURE AS CITY CUTS OFF PROTESTS; Tammany and Fusion Forces Agree in Ending Hearing After 32 Opponents Speak. TRADE LEADERS BAITED Cunningham Backs Alderman in Attack on High Pay of Insurance Executives. LEFKOWITZ FOR IMPOST Challenges Good Faith of Foes -- Harvey Leads Merchants in Plea for Fare Rise. BUSINESS TAX FOES CUT OFF AT HEARING
Read in The New York Times →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
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
33,641 days ago
(92 years, 61 days)