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1927Sam Butera, American saxophonist and bandleader (died 2009)[†]
Sam Butera was an American tenor saxophonist and singer best noted for his collaborations with Louis Prima and Keely Smith. Butera is frequently regarded as a crossover artist who performed with equal ease in both R&B and the post-big band pop style of jazz that permeated the early Vegas nightclub scene.
1927F. Ray Keyser Jr., American lawyer and politician, Governor of Vermont (died 2015)[†]
Frank Ray Keyser Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from Vermont. He served as Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1959 to 1961, and the 72nd governor of Vermont from 1961 to 1963.
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Labor motion of no confidence defeated by 1 vote; s in reply to T Johnson and others
Killed, with son, Don, and E Marcum, apparently by moonshiners, near Chauncey, W Va, A Adkins and A F Roberts arrested
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4 planes on way, piloted by Goebel, Pedlar, Frost and Jensen; the El Encanto, piloted by Goddard, and the Pablo Flyer, by Irvington, crash in take-offs, pilots unhurt; Erwin in the Dallas Spirit and B Griffin in the Okla turn back, landing safely; Mrs Erwin's comment; official barred her from accompanying husband; Parkhurst rule out; careers of pilots and description of planes; illus
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McHardy, L; home wrecked by Sacco and Vanzetti sympathizer
Mrs R B Pratt asks Mayor Walker to oust him as result of milk graft expose; Citizens Union issues attack; Kohler calls on McKee
BOSTON, Aug. 16. -- Governor Alvan T. Fuller sent a letter tonight to Lewis McHardy, the Sacco case juror whose home was bombed today. In it he said:
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