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VIENNA, June 13.--Lower quotations in the Chicago wheat pit and the expectation of bumper crops this year in America have caused a crisis among Central European farmers.
1929Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (died 2020)[†]
Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah was the Emir of Kuwait from 24 January 2006 until his death in 2020.
1929Bramwell Booth, English 2nd General of The Salvation Army (born 1856)[†]
William Bramwell Booth, CH was a British church and charity leader who was the first Chief of Staff (1881–1912) and the second General of The Salvation Army (1912–1929), succeeding his father, William Booth.
1929Vernon Louis Parrington, American historian and scholar (born 1871)[†]
Vernon Louis Parrington was an American literary historian, scholar, and college football coach. The first two volumne's of his is three-volume history of American letters, Main Currents in American Thought, won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1928 and was one of the most influential books for American historians of its time. The third volume approximately half completed was completed by his associates and students after his sudden death in 1929 []. Parrington taught at the College of Emporia, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Washington. He was also the head football coach at the College of Emporia from 1893 to 1896 and Oklahoma from 1897 to 1900. Parrington founded the American studies movement in 1927.