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December 8, 1927
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Headlines from December 8, 1927
SAYS PARIS EMBASSY SHADOWED WALKER; Gallivan Charges in Debate That Whitehouse Put Detectives on Mayor's Trail. HE SAYS HOUGHTON "FLED" And Only Diplomat Who Didn't Ignore Walker Was Sterling, Minister at Dublin. SAYS PARIS EMBASSY SHADOWED WALKER
Denies Mayor Walker was shadowed by detectives during his visit to Paris
KANSAS CITY CHOSEN BY THE REPUBLICANS; Deadlock on Convention City Ended on Twentieth Ballot by Vermont and Connecticut. JUNE 12 FIXED AS DATE Combination of San Francisco and Detroit to Beat Butler's Choice Is Defeated. WHERE REPUBLICANS WILL HOLD THEIR CONVENTION. KANSAS CITY CHOSEN BY THE REPUBLICANS
Wins fight for Kansas City for natl convention
SENATE, BY 50 TO 32, DENIES SMITH SEAT; Sends Illinois Senator-Elect's Case to Reed Committee for Investigation. GRANTS FLOOR PRIVILEGE Case of Vare Is Taken Up and Pursuance of Same Course Is Expected. SENATE BY 50 TO 32 DENIES SMITH SEAT
Sen defeats his resolutions that Smith be seated pending inquiry and that the case go to Com on Privileges and Elections
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Notable Births
1927Niklas Luhmann, German thinker and social theorist (died 1998)[โ ]
Niklas Luhmann was a German sociologist, philosopher of social science, and systems theorist.

1927Vladimir Shatalov, Kazakhstani general, pilot, and astronaut (died 2021)[โ ]
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew three space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 4 (1969), Soyuz 8 (1969), and Soyuz 10 (1971). From 1987 to 1991, he headed the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. Lieutenant General, Soviet Air Force (1975).