Walker Wires Fitzmaurice City Awaits Three Fliers
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April 17, 1928
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Bandits Rob Overland Limited Passengers As Train Leaves Chicago; Halt It and Flee
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Northwestern R R Overland Ltd
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PATTEN TO SUCCEED CONNOLLY IN QUEENS; Election of Organization Man Certain Today as Four Democratic Aldermen Agree. CHOICE TOLD TO WALKER But the Mayor Is Said to Be Displeased, Fearing Effect on Fall Elections.
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Patten indicated as successor to Connolly
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$41,445,000 ALLOTTED TO BUILD SCHOOLS AND END 'PART TIME'; Board of Estimate Pushes the Program for a Seat for Every Child by 1929. GRANTS 31 NEW BUILDINGS Twenty-eight Elementary and Three More High Schools to Be Constructed. OTHERS TO BE ENLARGED 126,000 Pupils on Part Time in 1927 Will Be Cared For by Then Under Plan.
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Problem will be ended by Bd of Estimate's approval of $41,445,000 bldg program to relieve congestion
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COOLIDGE STRESSES LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN SPEECH TO D.A.R.; War of Revolution Was Fought for This End, President Tells Society. URGES STRONG STATE RULE Addressing Convention in the Capital, He Warns Against Extending Federal Powers. LAUDS PRIVATE ENTERPRISE National Authority Must Not Trespass on Domain of Business, He Asserts.
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Importance stressed by Pres Coolidge
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Notable Births
1928Victor Lownes, American businessman (died 2017)[†]
Victor Aubrey Lownes III was an executive for HMH Publishing Company Inc., later known as Playboy Enterprises, from 1955 through the early 1980s. Soon after he met Hugh Hefner in 1954, Hefner founded Playboy magazine, and Lownes eventually joined his publishing company, serving as vice president. Lownes was a close confidant of Hefner and gained a reputation for dating Playboy Playmates.
1928Cynthia Ozick, American short story writer, novelist, and essayist[†]
Cynthia Ozick is an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.
1928Heinz Putzl, Austrian fencer[†]
Heinz Putzl is an Austrian former fencer. He competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics.
1928Fabien Roy, Canadian accountant and politician (died 2023)[†]
Fabien Roy was a Canadian politician who was active in Quebec in the 1970s. Roy was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec and the House of Commons of Canada, and advocated social credit theories of monetary reform.