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August 13, 1929

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SNOWDEN EXCEEDED CABINET'S DIRECTION; All Britain Still Backs Him, but Feeling Is Evident He Was Too Aggressive. LONDON RELIEVED BY DELAY MacDonald Believed to Have Advised Him--Lamont Unlikely to Attend Hague. Backed to Limit. SNOWDEN EXCEEDED CABINET'S DIRECTION People Feel Easier. Finds Britain Misunderstood.

By Charles A. Selden. Special Cable To the New York Times.by Charles A. Selden

War debts and reparations

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20,000 Yards of Earth Slide Into Canal at Cucuracha

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Landslide at Cucuracha

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New York City Seismographs Fail to Record Earth Shocks

By Unknown Author

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BAMBERGER TO GIVE EMPLOYES $1,000,000; Donation Marks Farewell of Head of Newark Store, Who Retires Sept. 15. 300 TO SHARE FUNDS Employes of 15 Years to Get Sums as High as $10,000 in Cash or Annuities. Buys Bankrupt Store. Gifts Take Place of Pensions. BAMBERGER TO GIVE EMPLOYES $1,000,000

By N.Y. Times Studio Photo

$1,000,000 gift to employes

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REPUBLICANS PICK F.R. COUDERT JR. TO OPPOSE CRAIN; New York County Committee Designates 31 - Year - Old Lawyer for Prosecutor. FAY UP FOR BOROUGH HEAD Dr. Israel Feinberg Chosen for Sheriff and Mrs. Grace D. Vanamee for Register. C. W. FERRY COUNTY CLERK REPUBLICANS PICK F. R. COUDERT JR. Richmond Picks Fusion Slate. With M. W. Allen as Head of the Ticket. NEW YORK COUNTY REPUBLICAN DESIGNEES.

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Fusion designations; M W Allen, Borough Pres; J F Kavanagh, County Clerk; T F Cosgrove, County Judge and Surrogate; C C Jacobson and E J Lovett, Assembly; W J Roach, W Volkhardt and C A Winant, Aldermen; E V Frerichs, Munic Ct Justice

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Pat Harrington Jr.

1929Pat Harrington, Jr., American actor (died 2016)^[†]

Daniel Patrick Harrington Jr. was an American Emmy Award–winning stage and television actor, best known for his role as building superintendent Dwayne Schneider on the sitcom One Day at a Time (1975–1984). His father Pat Harrington Sr. was also an actor.