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May 25, 1926

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Headlines from May 25, 1926

DICTATOR THREAT IS MADE IN POLAND TO OBTAIN REFORMS; If the National Assembly Does Not Give Pilsudski Power, He Will Take It. SEEKS LAW FOR EMERGENCY This Would Enable the New President to Govern for One Year Without the Diet. POSEN TO KEEP HANDS OFF Leaders There Determine to Await Events, but Will "Not Accept Rebel." PILSUDSKI SETS UP DICTATORSHIP RULE

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Pronouncement on program interpreted as dictatorship threat; enactment of emergency legislation and reforms sought

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His Record in St. Louis.; SEIZED AS SWINDLER OF HIS FIFTY WIVES

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ST. LOUIS, May 24 (AP). -- "Lord Beaverbrook," alleged international swindler arrested today in Philadelphia, skipped a $10,000 bond here after his arrest at Union Station on Oct. 12 last with Mrs. Margaretta Hoffman, pretty wife of a Chicago fur dealer, whom he had lured away by promising her a career in the movies.

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Notable Births

Claude Akins

1926Claude Akins, American actor (died 1994)[†]

Claude Aubrey Akins was an American character actor. He played Sonny Pruit in Movin' On, a 1974–1976 American drama series about a trucking team; Sheriff Lobo on The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, a 1979–1981 American action comedy television series; and in a variety of other roles on television as well as in feature films.

William Bowyer (artist)

1926William Bowyer, English painter and academic (died 2015)[†]

William Bowyer was a British portrait and landscape painter, who worked in a traditional manner.

Phyllis Gotlieb

1926Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian author and poet (died 2009)[†]

Phyllis Fay Gotlieb was a Canadian science fiction novelist and poet.

Bill Sharman

1926Bill Sharman, American basketball player and coach (died 2013)[†]

William Walton Sharman was an American professional basketball player and coach. He is mostly known for his time with the Boston Celtics in the 1950s, partnering with Bob Cousy in what was then considered the greatest backcourt duo of all time. As a coach, Sharman won titles in the ABL, ABA, and NBA, and is credited with introducing the now-ubiquitous morning shootaround.

1926David Wynne, English sculptor and painter (died 2014)[†]

David Wynne was a British sculptor of figures, animals, and portraits.

Notable Deaths

Symon Petliura

1926Symon Petliura, Ukrainian journalist and politician (born 1879)[†]

Symon Vasyliovych Petliura was a Ukrainian politician and journalist. He was the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian People's Army (UNA) and led the Ukrainian People's Republic during the Ukrainian War of Independence, a part of the wider Russian Civil War.

Historical Events

Sholem Schwarzbard

1926Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris.[†]

Samuel "Sholem" Schwarzbard was a Bessarabian-born Russian-French Yiddish poet. He served in the French and Soviet military, was a communist and anarchist, and is known for organising Jewish community defense against pogroms in the pre-First World War era and the Russian Civil War era in Ukraine, and for the assassination of Ukrainian nationalist leader Symon Petliura in 1926. He wrote poetry in Yiddish under the pen name of Baal-Khaloymes.