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I R T seeks injunction in Federal Court, and Transit Comm one in N Y S courts as fight opens by Comm's denial of increase; question of Jurisdiction an issue; I R T names Transit Comm, W A Prendergast and Manhattan Elevated Co as defendants; Quackenbush's statement
Turnstiles closed during rush from rain
Haskell gets $8,000,000
Assembly passes budget with cuts; Assemblyman Wallace charges "millionaire lobby" fights L I plans
1928Joseph Willcox Jenkins, American composer, conductor, and educator (died 2014)[†]
Joseph Willcox Jenkins was an American composer, professor of music, and musician. During his military service in the Korean War, he became the first arranger for the United States Army Chorus. He ended his teaching career as Professor Emeritus at the Mary Pappert School of Music, Duquesne University, where he had been a professor since 1961, and composed over 200 works.
1928H. H. Asquith, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1852)[†]
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, known professionally as H. H. Asquith, was a British statesman and Liberal politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. He was the last prime minister from the Liberal Party to command a majority government, and the most recent Liberal to have served as Leader of the Opposition. He played a major role in the design and passage of major liberal legislation and a reduction of the power of the House of Lords. In August 1914 Asquith took the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Empire into the First World War. During 1915 his government was vigorously attacked for a shortage of munitions and the failure of the Gallipoli Campaign. He formed a coalition government with other parties, but failed to satisfy critics, was forced to resign in December 1916 and never regained power.