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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
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Blue Moon
Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart
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Sorry! (Board Game)
You Share a Birthday With
- T. S. Eliot (1888)
- Martin Heidegger (1889)
- Pope Paul VI (1897)
- Ivan Pavlov (1849)
- Manmohan Singh (1932)
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
33,490 days ago
(91 years, 275 days)