Wednesday, May 23, 1934

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The Headlines

PRESIDENT ASKS SILVER BASE BE 'ULTIMATELY' 1 TO 3 GOLD; WANTS 50% SPECULATION TAX; BILL LINKED TO MESSAGE Buying of Metal Would Be Directed at 50c for Domestic Stocks. NATIONALIZATION AT WILL Steps Have Been Taken to Sound Out Other Powers on World Monetary Values. PITTMAN HAILS MEASURE But Thomas, Borah and Other Senators See No Change in the Status of Currency. PRESIDENT ASKS ACTION ON SILVER

Best-selling Sheet Music

Blue Moon

Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart

The must-have

Sorry! (Board Game)

On This Day

• American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.

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• The Auto-Lite strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo", a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Carl Linnaeus (1707)
• Pär Lagerkvist (1891)
• John Bardeen (1908)
• Hans Frank (1900)
• Otto Lilienthal (1848)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1930)