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January 28, 1925

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AWARD CONTRACT FOR ST. JOHN NAVE; LABOR PLEDGES AID; Trustees' Action Means Work Will Begin on $5,900,000 Building in the Spring. MARKS RED LETTER DAY Union Leaders Promise Perfect Work and Contributions for Memorial. $250,386 IN NEW GIFTS This Is a Campaign Record -- One for $50,000 From a Woman Who Wishes Her Name Withheld.

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On drive for completion of Cathedral of St John the Divine

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STONE WILL ANSWER SENATORS' QUESTIONS IN COMMITTEE TODAY; He Is Expected to Explain New Action on Wheeler and Charges of Colonel 0wnbey.

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Lr to Atty Gen Stone read by Sen Sterling in open session

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Stokers Strike at Buckingham Palace; Leave Houses of Parliament Without Heat

By Wireless To the New York Times

Engineers and stokers strike, leave Buckingham Palace, Houses of Parliament and Govt offices without heat

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Leaves $50,000 to Employe For His Faithful Services

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Stiles, J H, leaves $50,000 to E S Geesey in reward of faithful services

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Notable Births

Raja Ramanna

1925Raja Ramanna, Indian physicist and politician (died 2004)^[†]

Raja Ramanna was an Indian nuclear physicist. He was the director of India's nuclear program in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which culminated in Smiling Buddha, India's first successful nuclear weapon test on 18 May 1974.