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September 21, 1929

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LA GUARDIA PLEDGES AN END OF WASTE IN CITY BUREAUS; DEMANDS TRANSIT UNITY; HE ACCEPTS NOMINATION Says at Town Hall He Will Abolish 'Useless Jobs' Created by Tammany. ATTACKS SUBWAY POLICY He Serves Notice on I.R.T. and B.M.T. He Will Force All Lines Into One System. ARON APPEALS TO BUSINESS Assails "Political Tribute"-- Candidates Get Warm Greeting at Rally. Attacks Bench Appointments. LA GUARDIA PLEDGES AN END OF WASTE Harbord Dwells on Record. Aron Appeals to Business Men. Coler Attacks Estimate Board.

By Unknown Author

La Guardia accepts nomination; pledges end of waste in city bureaus

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STIMSON REVEALS NAVY PARLEY PLANS TO OTHER POWERS; French Envoy Visits Secretary, and Italy and Japan Are Kept in Touch. LONDON NOW DEFINITE SITE Paris Has Made No Formal Demand for 5-Power Meeting on Neutral Ground. ENVOYS NOT YET CHOSEN Hoover Says He Has Not Even Considered Selection of the American Delegates. Claudel Confers With Stimson. Oil Not to Enter MacDonald Talk. STIMSON REVEALS NAVY PARLEY PLANS No Indication of an Alliance.

By Richard V. Oulahan. Special To the New York Times

Armament Limitation negotiations

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BOY HELD IN THEFT OF $512,000 BONDS; Brokers' Messenger Insists He Was Kidnapped by Men With Auto on Leaving Bank. CAPTIVE 6 HOURS, HE SAYS Discrepancies in Stories Cause Arrest--Disobeyed Order to Wait for Escort. Discrepancies in His Stories. Unable to Describe Kidnappers. BOY HELD IN THEFT OF $512,000 BONDS Boy Calls Up From Brooklyn. Says Captor Took Him to Movies. Father Goes to Police Station. Charges Gang Is Making Thieves. The Missing Securities.

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R V Hiscoe & Co; messenger boy held

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Notable Births

Sándor Kocsis

1929Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer and manager (died 1979)[†]

Sándor Péter Kocsis was a Hungarian footballer who played for Ferencvárosi TC, Budapest Honvéd, Young Fellows Zürich, FC Barcelona and Hungary as a striker. During the 1950s, along with Ferenc Puskás, Zoltán Czibor, József Bozsik and Nándor Hidegkuti, he was a member of the Mighty Magyars. After the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, he moved to Spain where he became a member of the FC Barcelona team of the late 1950s.

Edgar Valter

1929Edgar Valter, Estonian author and illustrator (died 2006)[†]

Edgar Valter was an Estonian graphic artist, caricaturist, writer and illustrator of children's books, with over 250 books to his name, through 55 years of activity (1950–2005). His most famous work is Pokuraamat.

Bernard Williams

1929Bernard Williams, English-Italian philosopher and academic (died 2003)[†]

Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams was an English moral philosopher. His publications include Problems of the Self (1973), Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (1985), Shame and Necessity (1993), and Truth and Truthfulness (2002). He was knighted in 1999.