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May 12, 1929

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TARIFF CONCESSIONS MADE TO CORN BELT DISSENTERS; SUGAR TRUST AID CHARGED; COMPROMISES AGREED ON House Leaders Heed the Demands of Objectors to Farm Schedules. CONCEDE ON LOCAL ITEMS Changes in Commodities of National Interest to Be Decided on Floor. RAINEY ATTACKS TAFT Declares Latter, as President, and Wickersham Allowed 'Sugar Trust Thieves' to 'Escape.'

By Special to The New York Times

Attempts at westernization

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Wisconsin Judge Denies Right Of Property in Moonshine Hut

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Wis judge denies it as he sets aside jury's verdict in burning of shack where moonshine was manufactured

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A Million Fist Fights a Year In Russia, Says Statistician

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COLUMBIA'S CREWS SCORE CLEAN SWEEP SECOND WEEK IN ROW; Take All Four Races on Carnegie Lake, With PrincetonSecond and Penn Last.VARSITY IN EASY VICTORYWins by 4 Lengths, WithPenn 12 Behind, and Retains the Childs Cup.JUNIORS RALLY TO SCORE Come From Behind, but Lightweights Win by Six Lengths--Freshmen Have Hard Fight.

By Robert F. Kelley. Special To the New York Times

vs Penn

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FOCH TELLS WHY HE FOUGHT CLEMENCEAU; "IN ALL HISTORY THERE WAS NEVER A CAPITULATION LIKE THAT"

By Raymond Recouly. Copyright, 1929, By the New York Times Company

Marshall, A, Simple People

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Notable Births

1929Sam Nujoma, Namibian politician, 1st President of Namibia (died 2025)^[†]

Samuel Shafiishuna Daniel Nujoma was a Namibian revolutionary, anti-apartheid activist and politician who served three terms as the first president of Namibia, from 1990 to 2005. Nujoma was a founding member and the first president of the South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) in 1960.