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Credited with 463 votes in 1928 Natl Convention by McAdoo backer; estimate by States
M E Church receives anonymous gift of $1,000,000
Midtown telephone service cut off 3 hrs by blaze from short-circuit in 8th Av subway excavation at 36th St, illus
Likenesses of notables and characters in books are popular in Paris
1927Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist, author, and academic (died 2008)[†]
Samuel Phillips Huntington was an American political scientist, adviser, and academic. He spent more than half a century at Harvard University, where he was director of Harvard's Center for International Affairs and the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor.
1927Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (died 2013)[†]
Tadeusz Mazowiecki was a Polish author, journalist, philanthropist and politician, formerly one of the leaders of the Solidarity movement, and the first non-communist Polish prime minister since 1946, having held the post from 1989 to 1991.