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November 19, 1925

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WILBUR SENT FOLEY TO MRS. LANSDOWNE, DR. MASON CHARGES; Uncle of Widow Says Secretary of Navy Sought to Sway Shenandoah Testimony.

By Special to The New York Times

Dr W B Mason and wife testify to opinion that Sec Wilbur was responsible for Capt Foley's call upon Mrs Lansdowne to influence her testimony on wreck; Mrs G W Steele Jr, Mrs J Klein, Mrs W R Gherardi and Mrs Foley aid Capt Foley as witnesses; Maj Kennedy attributes wreck to reduction in valves which caused gas cells to burst

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MUSSOLINI SEEKS ARBITRARY POWER; ASSAILS PARLIAMENT; Bills of Revolutionary Character Presented as He Lauds Fascism, Winning Ovation. TO RULE ALL LEGISLATION Premier Would Be Responsible to King Only and Punish All Speaking III of Himself. CURB ON ITALIANS ABROAD Severe Penalties Are Provided for "Damaging the National Prestige." MUSSOLINI SEEKS ARBITRARY POWER

By Wireless To the New York Times

Introduction of bill in Chamber of Deputies designed to make him responsible to King alone; another bill provides for loss of citizenship and confiscation of property for Italians abroad offending the Fascist govt

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Notable Births

Zygmunt Bauman

1925Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-English sociologist, historian, and academic (died 2017)[†]

Zygmunt Bauman was a Polish–British sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship. He emigrated to Israel; three years later he moved to the United Kingdom. He resided in England from 1971, where he studied at the London School of Economics and became Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds, later emeritus. Bauman was a social theorist, writing on issues as diverse as modernity and the Holocaust, postmodern consumerism and liquid modernity.