W.C.T.U. Leader Upholds Wets Who Vote Dry in Congress
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Mrs B L Colvin defends legislators who drink but vote dry
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September 13, 1929
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E.T. QUINN, SCULPTOR, IS FOUND DROWNED; Noted Artist in Bronze Had Been Ailing Since He Took Poison Last May. HIS FAMILY IS SILENT But Friend Says His Body Was Taken From Bay Off Governors Island on Monday. Drowning Is Rumored. Many Works in Museums Here. E.T. QUINN, SCULPTOR, IS FOUND DROWNED
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Body found off Governors Island; career
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REYNOLDS AND TRAYLOR CHOSEN AS THE AMERICANS TO HELP FORM WORLD BANK; ACCEPTANCE IS CONFIRMED New York and Chicago Bankers Selected by Young and Morgan. THEY PREPARE TO SAID Service Will Be Unofficial, but They Will Have Full Voting Powers. BOTH ARE SELF-MADE MEN Reynolds Began Career as a Lawyer and Teacher-- Traylor Once a Cowboy. Reported Preparing to Sail. Both Self-Made Men.
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Said to have helped in selection of U S unofficial members of Internatl Bank subcom
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JURY TWICE REFUSES TO INDICT BRODERICK; Declines to Charge Him With Libel for Tale That Macrery Died From a Beating. HE DOES NOT TESTIFY Won't Waive Immunity, but Says He Can 'Prove' Allegation-- Banton Drops Murder Theory. Broderick Reiterates Charge. JURY TWICE REFUSES TO INDICT BRODERICK Banton Scouts Murder Tale.
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Grand jury refuses to indict E V Broderick for implication that Macrery was murdered; Dist Atty Banton scouts story
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SIMMONS ATTACKS TARIFF AS EMBARGO; SMOOT DEFENDS BILL; Leader's Clash on Party Stands as They Fire Opening Guns in General Senate Debate. COMPETITIVE VIEW SCORED Republican Chief Calls Democrats "Internationalists" Undermining Protection.SAYS HOOVER HAS MANDATEAnd Predicts Approval--SimmonsCharges Aid to Monopoly andHardship on Farmers. Rival Leaders in Full Voice. Smoot Warns of People's "Mandate." SIMMONS ATTACKS TARIFF AS EMBARGO Sees Menace of "Internationalists." As to Extent of "Limited Changes." Denies Favoring of "Selected Few." Doubts Rise in Sugar Price. Simmons Contrasts Party Stands. Calls Flexible Plan "Autocratic." Declares Farmer Gets "Gold Brick."
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Charges tariff bill is embargo; demands competitive tariff
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Notable Deaths
1929Jatindra Nath Das, Indian activist (born 1904)[†]
Jatindra Nath Das, better known as Jatin Das, was an Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary who worked to make India independent from the British Raj and was a member of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association. He died in the Lahore Central Jail after a 63-day hunger strike.