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June 28, 1927

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3 BANKERS INDICTED IN JULIAN OIL CASE; Stern, Barber and Flint Are Among 55 Named in Los Angeles Inquiry. MOVIE MAN ALSO ACCUSED L.B. Mayer Faces Charges of Usury -- Total Involved Is Put at $100,000,000.

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C F Stern, J E Barber and M H Flint charged with embezzlement; usury charges against L B Mayer, A Ramisch, J Toplitsky, W I Hollingsworth, W R Hervey, H M Haldeman, A W and E M Haeckel, A Lane, H A Bell, H S Mackay and A H Frank, following revelation that more than 1,000,000 spurious shares of co's stock had been sold to public

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Notable Births

1927Correlli Barnett, English historian and author (died 2022)[โ€ ]

Correlli Douglas Barnett was an English military historian, who also wrote works of economic history, particularly on the United Kingdom's post-war deindustrialization.

F. Sherwood Rowland

1927Frank Sherwood Rowland, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2012)[โ€ ]

Frank Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland was an American Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. His research was on atmospheric chemistry and chemical kinetics. His best-known work was the discovery that chlorofluorocarbons contribute to ozone depletion.