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July 19, 1929

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WALKER WILL RUN AGAIN; 'WHO CAN SAY NO?' HIS REPLY TO THE COMMITTEE OF 682; GETS OVATION AT CITY HALL Reviews Four Years' Work and Calls It Great Adventure. DEFENDS RISE IN OUTLAYS Measures Budget by What It Gives the People, Not in Dollars and Cents. HECKSCHER LAUDS HIM Says It Would Be a Calamity if He Did Not Stay to Finish Improvement Program. Cheers Greet Declaration. Smith Not at Meeting. Mayor 20 Minutes Late. WALKER TO RUN, ASKS 'WHO CAN SAY NO?' Cites Forty Projects. Major Reviews Work. LISTS WALKER'S FEATS. Heckscher Credits Forty Achievements to His Administration.

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A Heckscher lists 40 achievements

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RUSSIA AND CHINA MASS BORDER FORCES; MARTIAL LAW IN HARBIN, CIVILIANS FLEE; NANKING LEADERS MEET, SHOW NO CONCERN; HEAVY MOVEMENT OF TROOPS Great Concentrations Are Reported in Siberia and Manchuria. NANKING GETS SOVIET NOTE Chinese Leader Declares the Government Is Ready for Any Emergency. PEACE HOPES STILL PERSIST Japan Ready to Offer Services to Avert Clash--Will Remain Neutral.Yesterday's Developments in theRusso-Chinese Crisis. Great Military Activity Reported. Martial Law Grips Harbin. Emergency Parley in Nanking. Sea and Rail Service Stop.

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Massing of Russian and Chinese troops along Siberian-Manchurian border

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ROOSEVELT ACCEPTS BAR AID ON MANCUSO; Requests Two Associations to Submit Recommendations as to City Trust Chairman. PROMPT ACTION PROMISED Committees to Meet Next Week --Lack Power to Inquire Into Judge's Conduct. Mancuso Censored by Moses. ROOSEVELT ACCEPTS BAR AID ON MANCUSO Role of Associations Explained. Beyerle and Cohn Arraigned.

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Roosevelt accepts aid of Assn of Bar of City of N Y and N Y County Lawyers' Assn in regard to action to be taken in case of Mancuso; hearings continue

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Notable Births

Gaston Glock

1929Gaston Glock, Austrian engineer and businessman, co-founded Glock Ges.m.b.H. (died 2023)[†]

Gaston Glock was an Austrian engineer and businessman. He founded the company Glock in 1963. When he entered the 1980 competition for a new Austrian service pistol, he hired two engineers who had worked on the development of HK's first two polymer-frame pistols, the VP70 and P9 models. The first Glock pistol, chambered in 9x19mm and named the Glock 17 because it was Glock's 17th patent, entered Austrian military and police service in 1982. It became one of the most influential and popular handguns of the 20th century, leading to a succession of other models in a variety of sizes and chamberings as well as an industry-wide trend toward polymer-frame, striker-fired pistols.

Orville Turnquest

1929Orville Turnquest, Bahamian politician[†]

Sir Orville Alton Turnquest is a Bahamian politician who was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of External Relations of the Bahamas from 1992 to 1994, and the sixth governor-general of the Bahamas from 3 January 1995 until his retirement on 13 November 2001.