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March 23, 1925

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REPUBLICANS CHARGE HYLAN EVADES LAW IN LETTING CITY JOBS; Committee of 130 Says Non-Competitive Contracts Open the Way to Favoritism. FINDS MILLIONS INVOLVED Lists 300 Instances Approved by the Mayor and the Board of Aldermen. CITES A COURT DECISION Director of the Budget Defends City's Action -- Calls Charges Ambiguous. REPUBLICANS SAY HYLAN EVADES LAW

By Unknown Author

Replies to charges of Advisory Com of N Y Co Repub Com that Hylan Administration violates law in letting contracts non-competitively

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GERMANY INSISTS ON SECURITY TREATY; Makes It a Condition for Becoming a Member of League of Nations. FRENCH OPPOSITION WANES See inclusion of Reich in Compact as Only Way to Get British Guarantee. GERMANY INSISTS ON SECURITY TREATY

By Edwin L. James.special Cable To the New York Times.by Edwin L. James

Germany insists on security pact as condition before becoming member of League of Nations; French opposition wanes; German Amb in London, Sthamer, denies frontier proposals to Poland; British doubtful of compact

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Notable Births

1925David Watkin, English cinematographer (died 2008)[†]

David Watkin BSC was an English cinematographer, an innovator who was among the first directors of photography to experiment heavily with the usage of bounce light as a soft light source. He worked with such film directors as Richard Lester, Peter Brook, Tony Richardson, Mike Nichols, Ken Russell, Franco Zeffirelli, Sidney Lumet and Sydney Pollack.