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July 7, 1926

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Anti-Parking Regulation May Help Traffic Today

By Unknown Author

Issue anti-parking regulation to relieve traffic congestion due to use of private automobiles

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ROCKEFELLERS LEAD IN DRY LEAGUE GIFTS; WOMAN HEADS WETS; Former Donated $20,000 Since Jan. 1, 1925; Mrs. Van Gerbig $5,200 in Five Years. SENATORS REVEAL NAMES Wheeler Wins Partial Victory in Withholding All Lists for Years Prior to 1925. GOFF AND STAYTON CLASH Dry Member of Committee and Wet Association Leader Engage in Day-Long Tilt. ROCKEFELLERS LEAD IN DRY LEAGUE GIFTS

By Special to The New York Times

W B Wheeler succeeds in having names of givers to league before 1925 kept secret; Rockefellers head contributors since then; list given at Sen Com's hearing

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EVERYBODY GETS TO WORK; 150,000 Private Cars Bear the Burden of Strike Traffic. TRUCKS HAVE LITTLE TO DO Cruising Buses and Cabs Find Business Poor -- Emergency Lines Neglected. STEAM TRAINS CARRY LOAD Thousands Transfer to B.M.T. -- Relief From Confusion Promised Today. DELAY TO TRAFFIC SLIGHT BY STRIKE

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CAILLAUX DEMANDS ENTIRE AUTHORITY TO SAVE THE FRANC; Finance Minister Tells Deputies Cabinet Will Ask for Power to Proceed by Decree.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Caillaux urges payment

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600 MEN ARE ON STRIKE; Company Reports It Has Adequate Force and Will Hire No More Help. WOULD TAKE ITS MEN BACK Strike Dead Unless It Spreads, Quackenbush Declares -- Won't Accept Mediation. LITTLE DISORDER DEVELOPS Campaign to Disrupt Service by Tampering With Fuses and Cords Is Reported.

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statements by Hedley, Quackenbush and strike leaders

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1926Nuon Chea, Cambodian politician (died 2019)^[†]

Nuon Chea, also known as Long Bunruot or Rungloet Laodi, was a Cambodian politician and revolutionary who was the chief ideologist of the Khmer Rouge. He also briefly served as acting Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea. He was commonly known as "Brother Number Two", as he was second-in-command to Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot, General Secretary of the Party, during the Cambodian genocide of 1975–1979. In 2014, Nuon Chea received a life sentence for crimes against humanity, alongside another top-tier Khmer Rouge leader, Khieu Samphan, and a further trial convicted him of genocide in 2018. These life sentences were merged into a single life sentence by the Trial Chamber on 16 November 2018. He died while serving his sentence in 2019.

1926Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlvi, Urdu poet (died 2020)^[†]

Anand Mohan Zutshi Gulzar Dehlavi was an Indian Urdu poet, scholar, and journalist. Born in old Delhi's Gali Kashmeerian.

Headlines from July 7, 1926

Anti-Parking Regulation May Help Traffic Today

CAILLAUX DEMANDS ENTIRE AUTHORITY TO SAVE THE FRANC; Finance Minister Tells Deputies Cabinet Will Ask for Power to Proceed by Decree.

600 MEN ARE ON STRIKE; Company Reports It Has Adequate Force and Will Hire No More Help. WOULD TAKE ITS MEN BACK Strike Dead Unless It Spreads, Quackenbush Declares -- Won't Accept Mediation. LITTLE DISORDER DEVELOPS Campaign to Disrupt Service by Tampering With Fuses and Cords Is Reported.

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