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Wednesday, August 22, 1934
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The Headlines
Labor Board Rebukes Gen. Johnson, Reinstating NRA Man He Dropped; Recovery Administrator Is Held to Have Violated Section Which He Helped to Write Into Law -- His Course Is Declared 'Unjustified Interference.'
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Blue Moon
Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart
The must-have
Sorry! (Board Game)
On This Day
Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only test cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Deng Xiaoping (1904)
- Claude Debussy (1862)
- Ray Bradbury (1920)
- Leni Riefenstahl (1902)
- Pope Leo XII (1760)
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
33,525 days ago
(91 years, 310 days)