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1927Simone Veil, French lawyer and politician, President of the European Parliament (died 2017)[†]
Simone Veil was a French magistrate, Holocaust survivor and politician. Deported as a teenager to Auschwitz-Birkenau and later Bergen-Belsen, she became a prominent advocate for human dignity and European reconciliation. As minister of health, she championed women’s rights and is best remembered for the landmark 1975 law legalising abortion, known as the Veil Act.
1927Ian Reed, Australian discus thrower (died 2020)[†]
Ian Manley Reed was a discus thrower, who represented Australia at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He won the gold medal at the 1950 Commonwealth Games in the men's discus throw event.
1927Mimar Kemaleddin Bey, Turkish architect and academic, designed the Tayyare Apartments (born 1870)[†]
Ahmed Kemaleddin, widely known as Mimar Kemaleddin was a Turkish architect, and one of the leading figures of the First National architectural movement, alongside Vedat Tek.
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Arrested as stowaway on Majestic; spends 30 days in Southampton jail
Plan flight from Clifden, Ireland, to N Y, and return N Y-Vienna
Rescues C Harlowe, in Lake George, N Y
Coster, M
Near accord on cruiser issue; Japanese still adamant for 250,000 tons as cruiser maximum for Gt Britain and U S; French and Italian observers dubious on treaty; Gibson firm on cruiser stand after receiving word from Pres Coolidge; separate accords possible; optimistic view expressed by Adm Okada at Cabinet meeting in Tokio; London press comment
Byrd, R E, views
He and flying mates sail from Cherbourg on Leviathan with C D Chamberlin; s in farewell on boarding liner; events of last day in France; plane taken on ship also; his own story, dealing with airplanes as a means of linking nations in peaceful relations; pictures of him and flying mates in Paris; N Y C plans for welcome with Chamberlin
Plasterers in N Y C strike wherever cement masons affiliated with bricklayers' union are employed in renewal of old membership war between Operative Plasterers and Cement Finishers Union and Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers Union; bricklayers may walk out in retaliation; both charge breach of faith in agreement reached upon advice of E Root
1,000 reported dead; casualties in 20 towns; Nablus half destroyed; damage in Jerusalem; Hadassah reports situation "in hand,"
Welcomed in San Francisco and Oakland upon return from Hawaii; comments
Extent of damage; Amer Jewish Physicians' Com will aid reparation