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Motormen and switchmen employed by I R T form Consolidated R R Workers of Greater N Y, vote to strike to enforce demands for wage increase
Defies robbers at Roosevelt Hosp, N Y C
Denies report he would resign; Asst Sec of Treas Andrews says he would not let him after conf
L J Murphy elected Pres of G L Miller and Co of N Y, now controlled by labor leaders
Not to be presented at Court of St James because of ill health
1926Octavian Paler, Romanian journalist and politician (died 2007)[â ]
Octavian Paler was a Romanian writer, journalist, politician in Communist Romania, and civil society activist in post-1989 Romania.
1926Ămile CouĂ©, French psychologist and pharmacist (born 1857)[â ]
Ămile CouĂ© de la ChĂątaigneraie was a French psychologist, pharmacist, and hypnotist who introduced a popular method of psychotherapy and self-improvement based on optimistic autosuggestion.It was in no small measure [CouĂ©'s] wholehearted devotion to a self-imposed task that enabled him, in less than a quarter of a century, to rise from obscurity to the position of the worldâs most famous psychological exponent. Indeed, one might truly say that CouĂ© sidetracked inefficient hypnotism [mistakenly based upon supposed operator dominance over a subject], and paved the way for the efficient, and truly scientific.