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1926Robert H. Justman, American director, producer, and production manager (died 2008)[†]
Robert Harris "Bob" Justman was an American television producer, director, and production manager. He worked on many American TV series including Lassie, The Life of Riley, Adventures of Superman, The Outer Limits, Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, Search, and Then Came Bronson.
1926T. Loren Christianson, American politician (died 2019)[†]
Theodore Loren Christianson was an American politician in the state of South Dakota. He was a member of the South Dakota House of Representatives from 1977 to 1994. Christianson, a Korean War veteran, was a farmer and insurance agent. He also served on the Astoria School Board, as Deuel County Commissioner, as Chairman of the Deuel County Republican Party, as Director of Brookings-Deuel Rural Water System, Director of South Dakota Association of Rural Water Systems, and as Director of Deuel County Farm Mutual Insurance Company. He died in 2019.
1926Thomas Clark, American politician (died 2020)[†]
Thomas Joseph Clark Jr. was an American politician. He served as mayor of Long Beach, California from 1975 to 1980 and from 1982 to 1984, as elected by the Long Beach City Council.
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Losses in Denmark Lake Arsenal Explosion
Monkey wrecks Berlin restaurant
PARIS, July 12.--Joseph Caillaux, the Finance Minister, has obtained in London, if the accounts of the debt settlement terms current in Paris this evening are correct, the three conditions of payment the absence of which from the Mellon-Berenger agreement has caused such hostility in France.
Delays trip to Plymouth to receive Gov and Mrs Smith as first guests at Summer White House; hooks more fish
DOVER, N.J., July 12. -- After seventeen bodies had been taken from the ruins of the naval ammunition depot at Lake Denmark today, the fire which has raged since Saturday afternoon reached an unexploded magazine.
75 strikers return, service improves; Hedley extends time in which men may return; woman hurt in crash at Van Courtlandt Park terminal, Motorman Odell says he was re-hired without physical test; strike leaders seek jobs in other occupations for strikers; Court postpones hearing on Transit Comm's charges that I R T violated State R R law in employment of W Kelly, alleged inexperienced motorman, who derailed train at So Ferry, because of Kelly's disappearance
Anglo-French accord signed; France gets safeguard and transfer clauses; no marketing of bonds
U S Repr O L Mills says Repubs must name wet candidate for Gov to beat him
Old taxicab of Marne Battle coming to convention in Sept
C A Smith testifies that in 1923-1925 N Y C policemen saw Dwyer boats land liquor at Bellevue Hosp pier and Weehawken, N J, police helped land cargoes there; says he is now in charge of a Treas Dept boat, job given him by A B Bielaski; Judge Mack denies B F Spellman's motion to dismiss indictment on ground that it was not offense against U S