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Bill for 2 more judges for Eastern N Y signed
Introduces bill in Legis incorporating Gov Roosevelt's ideas on welfare legislation
60 arrested as Communist conspirators
The Stock Market celebrated yesterday the approach of Inauguration Day with a brisk advance in shares which already had been swept to high levels by the recent "Hoover Market." Gains ranged from fractions up to 60 points, with the copper groups clearly in the lead, spurted by a further increase in the...
1929Georgi Markov, Bulgarian journalist and author (died 1978)[†]
Georgi Ivanov Markov was a Bulgarian dissident writer. He worked as a novelist, screenwriter and playwright in his native country, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, until his defection in 1969. After relocating to London, he worked as a broadcaster and journalist for the BBC World Service, the Radio Free Europe and West Germany's Deutsche Welle. Markov used such forums to conduct a campaign of sarcastic criticism against the incumbent Bulgarian-Soviet regime.