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Signs accord on French debt, submits it to Cong
Negotiations for settlement fail; Cabinet prepares for emergencies; review of controversy
Dispatches on Byrd Arctic Expedition
1926Peter Lax, Hungarian-American mathematician and academic (died 2025)[†]
Peter David Lax was a Hungarian-born American mathematician and Abel Prize laureate working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics.