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Wednesday, September 26, 1934

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The Headlines

BANKERS BALK AT CITY LOAN FOR RELIEF, WARNING MAYOR NEW TAXES ARE INADEQUATE; IMPASSE IS REACHED Financiers Will Study Program and Plea to Borrow $10,000,000. MORE MEETINGS LIKELY Civic and Trade Delegations Score Business and Income Levies at Hearing. FAVOR TRANSIT FARE TAX A Speaker Is Ejected by Police -- LaGuardia Agrees His Plan Won't Meet Needs. BANKERS ARE COOL ON LOAN TO CITY

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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

Catchphrases of 1934

  • It happened one night

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

33,490 days ago

(91 years, 275 days)