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October 8, 1929

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END OF TRUCK STRIKE IS PREDICTED TODAY; FOOD EMBARGO IS ON; Lehman Withdraws Offer to Mediate When Both Sides Say Peace Is Near. EMPLOYERS MEET DEALERS Say Demands of Men Are Just, but That the Cartage Rates Must Be Increased. ALL PRODUCE DIVERTED Six Lines Refuse to Bring Food Into City--Brooklyn Hospitals Send Ambulances After Supplies. Roads Declare Embargo. Drivers Right, Employers Say. END OF TRUCK STRIKE IS PREDICTED TODAY Lehman Offers Aid. Produce Sent Elsewhere. Policemen Ride on Trucks.

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M'DONALD TELLS SENATE WARS ARE OVER IF KELLOGG PACT IS MADE EFFECTIVE; PARITY FOR US IN ALL WARSHIPS BY 1936; WORDS IMPRESS SENATE War 'Impossible if You and We Do Our Duty,' Says the Premier. PARITY 'WITHOUT RESERVE' Only Condition Under Which Competitive Armaments Can Be Stopped, He Says. ALL DIFFERENCES TAKEN UP President and Premier, in Joint Statement, Say Gratifying Progress Has Been Made. Certain Subjects Tabooed. Speech Impresses Listeners. Senators Approve Views on Parity. Speaks to House Members. Further Talks With President. Hoover Still for Reduction. Ways of Reduction Discussed. Consideration of Battleships. Freedom of the Seas. The Arbitration Treaty. Liquor Ship Seizures. London Invitation Received.

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

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Notable Births

Betty Boothroyd

1929Betty Boothroyd, English politician, British Speaker of the House of Commons (died 2023)[†]

Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd, was a British politician who served as a member of Parliament (MP) for West Bromwich and West Bromwich West from 1973 to 2000. A member of the Labour Party, she served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1992 to 2000. She was previously a Deputy Speaker from 1987 to 1992. She was the first and as of 2025, the only woman to serve as Speaker. Boothroyd later sat in the House of Lords as, in accordance with tradition, a crossbench peer.