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March 20, 1929

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JONES LAW VIOLATOR GETS 3 MONTHS HERE; War Veteran Who Got $2.40 by Liquor Sale Is First in City to Feel New Penalties. JUDGE LISTS SENTENCES Holds Half Year Right for Minor Offenders--Picks Coudert to Defend One Suspect. Announcement Stirs Courtroom. JONES LAW VIOLATOR GETS 3 MONTHS HERE Judge Warns of Severer Penalty. Leniency Urged for War Veteran. Gets Credit for Time in Jail. Doom of Liquor Resorts Predicted

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E Dougall, war veteran, 1st convicted in N Y C under act, gets 3 mos; F R Coudert Jr assigned to defense of one suspect

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Notable Births

1929William Andrew MacKay, Canadian lawyer and judge (died 2013)[†]

William Andrew MacKay was a Canadian lawyer and former judge, civil servant, legal academic, and university president.

Germán Robles

1929Germán Robles, Spanish-Mexican actor and director (died 2015)[†]

Germán Horacio Robles San Agustín was a Spanish actor who came to Mexico when he was 17, after the Spanish civil war.

Notable Deaths

Ferdinand Foch

1929Ferdinand Foch, French field marshal (born 1851)[†]

Ferdinand Foch was a French general, Marshal of France and a member of the Académie Française and Académie des Sciences. He distinguished himself as Supreme Allied Commander on the Western Front during the First World War in 1918.