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September 19, 1929

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ENRIGHT NOMINATED; TAMMANY HIS TARGET; In Race for Mayor, Denounces Walker Regime for Graft, Waste and Injustice. TO BARE ROTHSTEIN CASE Calls on Governor for Court Inquiry--Says Story Will Shake Political Circles. 900 Attend Meeting. ENRIGHT NOMINATED; TAMMANY HIS TARGET Criticizes Walker on Prohibition. Enright Announces Platform. Says Party Is Here to Stay. Denies Tammany Is Invincible. Assails Handling of Rothstein Case Other Candidates Announced.

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G Polhemus nominated by Square Deal Party

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GASTONIANS KIDNAP, FLOG UNION LEADER BEYOND STATE LINE; Three Raiders Seize National Textile Organizer in Bed at Kings Mountain, N.C. THREATEN TO HANG VICTIM Union Speakers' Stand in Gov. Gardner's Home County Is Blown Up at Same Time. HE PROMISES SWIFT ACTION Strikers' Counsel Sees In "Interstate" Outrage Cause for Federal Intervention. Sheriffs Without a Clue. Burst Through Victim's Door. GASTONIANS KIDNAP, FLOG UNION LEADER Borrows Clothes of Farmers. Baldwin Outlines Counter-Suits.

By Special to The New York Times

3 raiders seize C Tesenair at King's Mountain, N C, flog him in Cherokee Co, S C; Fed authorities may be asked to investigate "interstate" flogging

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LINDBERGHS START 10,000-MILE FLIGHT; Aviator and Wife Land at Charleston, S.C., for Night on Way to Miami. TO BLAZE NEW AIR LINES Journey Will Take Them to the West Indies and to Central and South America. Stop in Washington. Take Off From Roosevelt Field. LINDBERGHS START 10,000-MILE FLIGHT Havana Reception Arranged. Preparations at Managua.

By Times Wide World Photo

CHARLESTON, S.C., Sept. 18.-- Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh, traveling by plane from Washington to Miami, Fla., landed in Charleston this afternoon about 4:30 o'clock.

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HOOVER ON RADIO TELLS OF PEACE HOPES; SAYS NAVAL ACCORD WOULD SAVE WORLD FROM HATE, RELIEVE TOILERS' BURDENS; WANTS ARMS REDUCTIONS Preparedness, He Says, Must Not Be Threat Against Others. STRESSES WIDE APPROVAL He Declares There Is Almost Universal Prayer for Success of Warship Reduction. SPEAKS IN HISTORIC ROOM President Emphasizes That It Was Scene of Peace Efforts Since John Adams's Day. TEXT OF PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS Peace Problem Always There. Optimistic as to Parley.

By Special to The New York Times

May be given freedom of city as tribute to peace efforts

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Marge Roukema

1929Marge Roukema, American educator and politician (died 2014)[†]

Margaret "Marge" Ellen Roukema was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 to 2003.