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January 20, 1927

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URGES LEGISLATURE TO KILL $300,000,00 TRANSIT MEASURE; Citizens Union Declares Walker Proposal Is Entering Wedge to Ending Debt Limit. REPUBLICANS COLD TO BILL Want a Definite Exposition of City's Plans and Will Hold Hearing Before Acting. MAYOR HOPES TO GET ISSUE Believes That He Can Convince Legislators Big Fund Is Vital to Subways. URGES LEGISLATURE TO KILL TRANSIT BILL

By Special to The New York Times

Expects to be able to convince legislators of need to amend N Y State Constitution to permit N Y City to increase borrowing capacity to obtain funds for subway construction

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Qurratulain Hyder

1927Qurratulain Hyder, Indian-Pakistani journalist and academic (died 2007)[†]

Qurratulain Hyder was an Indian Urdu novelist and short story writer, academic, and journalist. One of the most outstanding and influential literary names in Urdu literature, she is best known for her magnum opus, Aag Ka Darya, a novel first published in Urdu in 1959, from Lahore, Pakistan, that stretches from the fourth century BC to post partition of India.