Hoover Gives Up Regular Vacation This Year, Expecting Congress to Sit Until October
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Gives up idea of taking regular Summer vacation; expects Cong to sit until Oct
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May 13, 1929
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1928 PULITZER PRIZE FOR PETERKIN NOVEL; Award Goes to "Scarlet Sister Mary"--Elmer Rice's "Street Scene" Adjudged Best Play. STEPHEN V. BENET HONORED For Poem "John Brown's Body" --Rollin Kirby and B.J. Hendrick Win Third Time. Two Win for Third Time. List of the Awards. 1928 PULITZER PRIZE FOR PETERKIN NOVEL PRIZES IN LETTERS. TRAVELING SCHOLARSHIPS.
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Awarded Pulitzer prize for best editorial of 1928; por
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ALL PARIS TURNS OUT TO HONOR ST. JOAN AS 50,000 PARADE; Royalists and Republicans Mingle in Colorful Observation of 500th Anniversary. CANNON ROAR, BELLS RING Churchmen in Bright Robes March With Cabinet Ministers to Heroine's Statues. CITY HAS REVERENT AIR Police Disperse Women Demanding the Vote and Group That Shouted, "Long Live the King!" Parading Feminists Halted. Impressive Religious Services. ALL PARIS TURNS OUT TO HONOR ST. JOAN End Week of Celebrations.
By Lansing Warren. Special Cable To the New York Times.by Lansing Warren
Ponce disperse group that shouts, "Long live the King," at parade for Joan of Arc
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WARDER'S WIFE DIES; FACED STAND TODAY IN CITY TRUST CASE; Daughter Says Strain of the Inquiry Involving Ex-Banking Head Caused Heart Attack. MOSES POSTPONES HEARING Moreland Commissioner Will Start Taking of Testimony Next Monday. WITNESSES WANTED TODAY Preliminary State Investigation and Federal Bankruptcy Hearing Will Go Forward. Inquiry Distressed Mrs. Warder. Witnesses Must Appear Today. WARDER'S WIFE DIES; FACED STAND TODAY Two Witnesses Face Court.
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Mrs Warder dies on eve of scheduled appearance as witness in Moreland act investigation; public hearings postponed
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BIG MEDICAL CENTRE PLANNED IN BROOKLYN; Long Island College Hospital and Four Other Institutions in Negotiations. SITE REPORTED OFFERED An Affiliation of Columbia University With Medical School Being Considered. Medical Society in Plan. BIG MEDICAL CENTRE LIKELY IN BROOKLYN
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Big medical centre planned in Bklyn through assn of L I Col Hosp and 4 other hosps
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1929Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer, invented the Enigma machine (born 1878)[†]
Arthur Scherbius was a German electrical engineer who invented the mechanical cipher Enigma machine. He patented the invention and later sold the machine under the brand name Enigma.