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September 18, 1929

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Headlines from September 18, 1929

HARVEY DEFEATS KARLE; His Indicated Plurality Over the Organization Candidate 18,000. DEMOCRATIC RACE CLOSE Returns From 450 Districts Show Fight Is Close, With Slight Lead for Cox. BLOW AT DE BRAGGA POWER But Leader Declares He Will Support Borough President for Re-election.

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Harvey defeats Karle by indicated plurality of 18,000; De Bragga says he will support Harvey; returns from 450 dists show Dem fight close with slight lead for Cox; incomplete returns

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GREAT OIL MERGER FORECAST IN LONDON; Col. R.W. Stewart Reported on Way to Join Deterding in War on Rockefellers. SAID TO LINK WITH MORGAN Ousted Head of Standard of Indiana Expected to Aid in New World-Wide Trust.

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Reptd on way to Eng to join Sir H Deterding in fight against Rockefeller interests; reptd that Morgans may join in fight

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King Well Enough to Try Guns If Clear Weather Continues

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

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LOREE PLANS MERGER OF 17 EASTERN ROADS; Proposes That D. & H. Absorb New Haven, D., L. & W., B.& M and N.Y., O. & W. FILES PETITION WITH I.C.C. Gives No Details of Financing of System at Variance With Projects of Other Groups.

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L F Loree, on behalf of D & H, discloses plan for merger of 17 shorter R Rs into belt system connecting all important cities on North Atlantic seaboard; plan at variance with proposals of several other groups; map

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MORGAN PLEDGES AID TO THE STATE TO FIX A POLICY ON POWER; Ready to Confer With Governor and Others to Draft Plan to Benefit All, Lamont Says. GIVES COMPANIES WARNING Asserts They Should Not Try to Sway Decision and Should Accept It When Reached. DENIES STAND BY BANKERS Spokesman Says His Group Has Declared Neither for Private Nor Public Development.

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Niagara Hudson Power Corp officials and T W Lament express willingness to cooperate with State authorities in development of St Lawrence power

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Notable Births

1929Nancy Littlefield, American director and producer (died 2007)^[†]

Nancy Kassell Littlefield was a director and producer of television and documentary programs, who was the director of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting from 1978 until 1983, during the administration of then-Mayor Edward I. Koch. She was born in The Bronx, New York.