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Friday, July 13, 1934
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The Headlines
LEGISLATORS GIVE MACK FREE HAND IN POWER INQUIRY; Committee Counsel Follows This Action by a Pledge to Spare No Official. STERN BAN ON POLITICS Light and Power Companies Will Be Investigated First -Public Hearings Deferred. FREE HAND PLEDGED MACK POWER HUNT
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
- 1841 (1851)
- Wole Soyinka (1934)
- Pope Clement X (1590)
- Isaac Babel (1894)
- Simone Veil (1927)
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
33,565 days ago
(91 years, 350 days)