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Tuesday, May 1, 1934
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The Headlines
OUR ENVOY INFORMS JAPAN WE DESIRE TREATIES BE KEPT; AFFIRMS OUR RIGHTS IN CHINA; OPEN DOOR POLICY UPHELD Grew's Statement Held to Refer to Nine-Power and Kellogg Pacts. NO PRESSURE IS PLANNED Washington Is Believed to Be Ready to Accept Japan's Assurance on Interests. FRIENDLINESS IS STRESSED Application of Principle of 'Good Neighbor' Is Declared to Be American Goal. U.S. TELLS JAPAN IT BACKS TREATIES
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Blue Moon
Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart
The must-have
Sorry! (Board Game)
You Share a Birthday With
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769)
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852)
- Joseph Addison (1672)
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881)
- Joseph Heller (1923)
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
33,638 days ago
(92 years, 58 days)