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August 2, 1927

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Headlines from August 2, 1927

Scarsdale's 'Hot Dog' Dealer Is Convicted Of Violating New Ordinance, but Will Appeal

By Special to The New York Times

Hitalikides convicted of violating law

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Japanese Try Mediation.; PLENARY SESSION SET FOR THURSDAY

By the Associated Press

Plenary session set for Aug 4; conflicting reports of instructions to Gibson from Coolidge; Japanese efforts at mediation; conf of Japanese delegation following meeting between Viscount Ishii and Bridgeman; Amer proposals criticized by British; features difficult of adjustment

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I.R.T. CUTS OFF POWER; Passengers Wade Out When Train Stalls Between Stations. LIGHTNING STRIKES TROLLEY Seven Hurt by Bolt in New Jersey -- Canoeists Save Six Marooned in Another Car. MONUMENT ON DRIVE HIT. Heavy Pieces of Coping Hurled Afar -- Storm Lowers Temperature 14 Degrees.

By Unknown Author

Damage by thunderstorm

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Dornier Builds Huge Airplane To Carry 100 Across Atlantic

By Copyright, 1927, by the New York Times Co

Dornier factory in Geneva is constructing huge airplane, to carry 100 persons

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STANDARD OIL OF N.J. PLANS NEW LINE-UP; To Divide World Interests Into Closely Knit Structure of Subsidiary Companies. DIRECTORS MAY HEAD UNITS First Step Seen in Organization of Vast Marine Service in One Company. STANDARD OIL OF N.J. PLANS NEW LINE-UP

By Unknown Author

Change in world-wide structure planned

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1927Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, English mathematician and academic (died 2018)^[†]

Sir Henry Peter Francis Swinnerton-Dyer, 16th Baronet, was an English mathematician specialising in number theory at the University of Cambridge. As a mathematician he was best known for his part in the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture relating algebraic properties of elliptic curves to special values of L-functions, which was developed with Bryan Birch during the first half of the 1960s with the help of machine computation, and for his work on the Titan operating system.

Headlines from August 2, 1927

Scarsdale's 'Hot Dog' Dealer Is Convicted Of Violating New Ordinance, but Will Appeal

Japanese Try Mediation.; PLENARY SESSION SET FOR THURSDAY

I.R.T. CUTS OFF POWER; Passengers Wade Out When Train Stalls Between Stations. LIGHTNING STRIKES TROLLEY Seven Hurt by Bolt in New Jersey -- Canoeists Save Six Marooned in Another Car. MONUMENT ON DRIVE HIT. Heavy Pieces of Coping Hurled Afar -- Storm Lowers Temperature 14 Degrees.

Dornier Builds Huge Airplane To Carry 100 Across Atlantic

STANDARD OIL OF N.J. PLANS NEW LINE-UP; To Divide World Interests Into Closely Knit Structure of Subsidiary Companies. DIRECTORS MAY HEAD UNITS First Step Seen in Organization of Vast Marine Service in One Company. STANDARD OIL OF N.J. PLANS NEW LINE-UP

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