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Saturday, October 27, 1934

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The Headlines

BANKERS' OFFICERS CALL ON PRESIDENT; PLEDGE TEAM PLAY; Help for Recovery Is Promised by Aggressively Encouraging Loans to Industry. DESIRE TO LEND STRESSED Roosevelt Is Asked to Assign Visitors to Places on His 'All-American' Squad. BANKERS' OFFICERS CALL ON PRESIDENT

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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

33,459 days ago

(91 years, 244 days)