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April 26, 1925

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Daylight Saving Time Here; Clocks Ahead an Hour at 2 A.M.

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VAN BROCKLIN'S HIT BEATS HARVARD NINE; Columbia's Star Pitcher Wins Own Game, 7-6, With Single in the Ninth. ENDS LIONS' LOSING STREAK Twirler Relieves Fitch in Sixth Inning and Crimson Is Unable to Do Much Hitting. VAN BROCKLIN'S HIT BEATS HARVARD, 7-6

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ROME OFFERS "THE THEATRE OF THE TWELVE"

By Ralph Roeder

ROME, April 8. THE Fascist Government in its concern for the national credit has not forgotten the theatre. Shortly before her departure for America Premier Mussolini asked Mme. Duse what he could do for her. The answer came some months later.

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FLEET ATTACKS OAHU IN A MIMIC BATTLE; Battleships Try to Land Forces in Hawaiian Army and Navy Manoeuvres. SINK DEFENSE SEAPLANE " Black" Defenders Seek to Locate the Langley and Prevent Mass Air Onset.

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Notable Births

1925Vladimir Boltyansky, Russian mathematician, educator and author (died 2019)^[†]

Vladimir Grigorevich Boltyansky, also transliterated as Boltyanski, Boltyanskii, or Boltjansky, was a Soviet and Russian mathematician, educator and author of popular mathematical books and articles. He was best known for his books on topology, combinatorial geometry and Hilbert's third problem.

1925Gerard Cafesjian, American businessman and philanthropist (died 2013)^[†]

Gerard Leon Cafesjian was a businessman and philanthropist who founded the Cafesjian Family Foundation (CFF), the Cafesjian Museum Foundation (CMF) and the Cafesjian Center for the Arts.

1925Michele Ferrero, Italian entrepreneur (died 2015)^[†]

Michele Ferrero was an Italian billionaire businessman. He owned the chocolate manufacturer Ferrero SpA, Europe's second-largest confectionery company, which he developed from the small bakery and café of his father in Alba, Piedmont. His first big success was his work with Francesco Rivella in adding vegetable oil to the traditional gianduja paste to make the popular spread Nutella.

1925Frank Hahn, British economist (died 2013)^[†]

Frank Horace Hahn FBA was a British economist whose work focused on general equilibrium theory, monetary theory, Keynesian economics and critique of monetarism. A famous problem of economic theory, the conditions under which money, which is intrinsically worthless, can have a positive value in a general equilibrium, is called "Hahn's problem" after him. One of Hahn's main abiding concerns was the understanding of Keynesian (Non-Walrasian) outcomes in general equilibrium situations.

Historical Events

1925Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.^[†]

Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg was a German military officer and statesman who led the Imperial German Army during World War I and later became President of Germany from 1925 until his death in 1934. He played a key role in the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 through his appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.