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December 13, 1928

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KING DOING WELL AFTER OPERATIONS; FLUID TWICE DRAINED FROM CHEST; DOCTORS HOPEFUL, PUBLIC LESS ANXIOUS; TWO NEW DOCTORS ON CASE Patient Under Anesthetic as Tube Is Placed to Drain Lung. PART OF RIB REPORTED OUT 'Almost Miraculous' Improvement as Prince Returned Allowed Use of Surgery.INFECTION AGAIN LOCALIZEDQueen Unveils War Memorial--Prince George Starts HomeFrom Bermuda. Pleural Fluid Caused Operation. Text of Three Bulletins. 4Cheers Greet the Heir. Prince Thanks Railway Men. Knife Used in Operation. Public Is Less Anxious. Subdued Optimism at Palace.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Repts by Sir H Rigby, Sir S Hewett, Dawson of Penn and others; visitors to palace; prayers offered, &c

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Ken Strong, Football Star, Secretly Married; N.Y.U. Man Weds Actress at the Little Church

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Marries A Hunneman

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New Treasury Issue Is Oversubscribed; Books Are Closed Despite Orders in Mails

By Special to The New York Times

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.--The offering of $500,000,000 of treasury certificates of indebtedness carrying 4 per cent interest, has been oversubscribed and the books were closed tonight without awaiting, as has been the custom, the arrival of subscriptions which were mailed late today and will be received here tomorrow.

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GUNMEN GET $104,500 IN RAID ON PAY AUTO; Seen Let Loose Fusillade in Yonkers Business District, Wounding Two in Truck. GUNS MENACE PASSERS-BY Gang Uses Three Cars in Bold Foray, Abandoning Two in Escape With Currency. Escape in Two Autos. Policeman Goes With Truck. GUNMEN GET $104,500 IN RAID ON PAY AUTO Cars Speed in Pursuit.

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First Natl Bank; gang raids pay auto and get $104,500

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Front Page 1 -- No Title; Oppose Three Major Programs.

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1928Solomon Feferman, American philosopher and mathematician (died 2016)^[†]

Solomon Feferman was an American philosopher and mathematician who worked in mathematical logic. In addition to his prolific technical work in proof theory, computability theory, and set theory, he was known for his contributions to the history of logic and as a vocal proponent of the philosophy of mathematics known as predicativism, notably from an anti-platonist stance.

Headlines from December 13, 1928

Ken Strong, Football Star, Secretly Married; N.Y.U. Man Weds Actress at the Little Church

New Treasury Issue Is Oversubscribed; Books Are Closed Despite Orders in Mails

Front Page 1 -- No Title; Oppose Three Major Programs.

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