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Thursday, September 27, 1934

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The Headlines

BANKERS PROPOSE CITY TAX ON SALES AND ON SALARIES; Hold Program Would Furnish Sufficient Funds for the Financing of Relief. REJECT PRESENT PROGRAM Report Business and Income Plans Are Inadequate and Others Legally Unsound. $37,000,000 REVENUE SEEN Letter Warns Against Unhinging Credit -- Employers Would Share in Pay Levy. BANKERS URGE TAX ON SALES AND PAY

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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

33,489 days ago

(91 years, 274 days)