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Thursday, December 13, 1934

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The Headlines

CUMMINGS TO PUSH FEDERAL CRIME WAR EVEN IF STATES ACT; Keenan Tells Conference That Interstate Pacts Would Not Solve the Problem. SEES JURISDICTION TANGLE Bar Association, at the Capital Meeting, Pledges Its Help to Tighten Laws. COMPACT MOVE IS GAINING Ehringhaus Says States Resist 'Outside Solutions' -- Hard Work in All Prisons, Is Urged. CUMMINGS TO PUSH OWN WAR ON CRIME

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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

33,412 days ago

(91 years, 197 days)