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Sunday, November 11, 1934

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The Headlines

FRANCE'S NEW PREMIER TAKES ON THORNY TASK; Flandin Faces Serious Domestic Job As Well as Difficult Issues in Foreign Relations. POSITION OF FRANC INVOLVED Reduction in Gold Content by Paris Might Easily Affect Standing of Currencies In Many European Countries.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Blue Moon

Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart

The must-have

Sorry! (Board Game)

On This Day

  • The Shrine of Remembrance is opened in Melbourne, Australia.

    Wikipedia →

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

33,445 days ago

(91 years, 230 days)