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March 12, 1928

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Headlines from March 12, 1928

BRIAND SEES HOPE OF MAKING TREATY TO DOOM ALL WAR; He Tells Correspondent of the Times European Nations Want Our Help on It. BELIEVE IT CAN BE DONE Efforts Will Now Be Made to Get Negotiations Down to a Practical Basis. RESERVATIONS ONLY SNAG Recognition of Right to Punish Aggressor, Even Though We Abstain, Is Desired. European Position Outlined. Object of First Briand Proposal. EUROPE WANTS US HELP MAKE TREATY Penalties Held to be Necessary. What the French Want.

By Edwin L. James. Copyright, 1928, By the New York Times Company. Special Cable To the New York Times

Franco-Amer arbitration treaty

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BORAH URGES PARTY REFUND OF 'SINISTER' OIL MONEY; GOT NO BONDS, SAYS BUTLER; SENATOR SEES A 'STIGMA' Wrote Chairman Butler That Sinclair Gifts Had 'Ulterior Purpose.' SUGGESTED 'DOLLAR DRIVE' He Has Reply to Plea, but Withholds It, Indicating It Is Unsatisfactory. WALSH HAS WORD OF BONDS Chairman Telegraphs He Never Received Securities or Gifts From Hays or Sinclair. Pratt Note Bore Name "Butler." Borah's Letter to Chairman. Borah Withholds Reply. Seek More Continental Profits. Butler Silent on Borah Letter. Hays Refuses To Comment.

By Special to The New York Times

Sen Borah, in lr to Chm Butler of Repub Natl Com, urges party refund of "oil" money; Butler, in lr to Walsh, says he never received securities or gifts from Hays or Sinclair

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Trapped Dog Swims 8 Hours in Flooded Cellar After Suspicious Fire at Pocantico Hills

By Special to The New York Times

Conrad, E, home

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MAYOR IN BILL ASKS FULL TRANSIT POWER; Wants State Board Abolished and City Put in Control of Unification Plan. AS A STRIKE WEAPON, TOO Measure to Be Offered at Once Would Aid in the 7-Cent Fare Fight. Members Said to Favor Plan. MAYOR IN BILL ASKS FULL TRANSIT POWER Untermyer Bills Doomed. Mayor Wants More Power. Sees Quackenbush's Influence. Denies Mayor Opposes Bill. Sees Move to Aid Company. Attacks I.R.T. Management.

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Mayor plans bill for abolition and for transfer of powers to Bd of Transportation

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Fords Experimenting on Metal Dirigibles Of Huge Size for Ocean Passenger Service

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E Ford on experiments with metal dirigibles for ocean passenger service

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1928Edward Albee, American director and playwright (died 2016)^[†]

Edward Franklin Albee III was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), A Delicate Balance (1966), and Three Tall Women (1994). Some critics have argued that some of his work constitutes an American variant of what Martin Esslin identified as and named the Theater of the Absurd. Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play.

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1928In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.^[†]

California is a state in the Western United States that lies on the Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California to the south. With almost 40 million residents across an area of 163,696 square miles (423,970 km2), it is the largest state by population, third-largest state by area and the largest state economy.

Headlines from March 12, 1928

Trapped Dog Swims 8 Hours in Flooded Cellar After Suspicious Fire at Pocantico Hills

Fords Experimenting on Metal Dirigibles Of Huge Size for Ocean Passenger Service

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