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Friday, August 28, 1936
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The Headlines
POPE WORN DOWN BY GRIEF FOR SPAIN; Associates Fear Pontiff, Now in His 80th Year, May Soon Be Unable to Walk.
Read in The New York Times →The must-have
Monopoly (Parker Brothers)
On This Day
Nazi Germany begins its mass arrests of Jehovah's Witnesses, who are interned in concentration camps.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749)
- Jack Kirby (1917)
- Godfrey Hounsfield (1919)
- C. Wright Mills (1916)
- George Whipple (1878)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
damefellaswelllousy
Hardboiled
clip jointgriftershamusgunsel
Swing Era
alligatorjitterbugkiller dillerin the groove
Tech Check
Voice Recorder, Helicopter (Focke-Wulf) & Sunscreen.
Cost of Living (1930)
Loaf of Bread
$0.09
Gallon of Gas
$0.20
Average Home
$3,900
New Car
$640
Time Elapsed
32,788 days ago
(89 years, 303 days)