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October 16, 1929

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FOOD TIE-UP FEARED AS GASOLINE STRIKE HITS MARKET TRUCKS; Produce Men Organize to Meet Emergency--Walkout of All Drivers Here Again Looms. 54,000 MAY QUIT POSTS Filling-Station Crews Meet and Formulate Demands for Action on Friday. TANK CAR FIRED IN NEWARK But Violence Here Subsides as All Companies Oust Private Guards at Whalen's Order. 54,000 Threaten to Quit. Two More Companies Settle. FOOD TIE-UP FEARED; MARKET TRUCKS HIT Produce Men Meet Today. Calls Shortage Negligible. Armed Guards Withdrawn. Truck Fired in Newark. Coercion Again Charged. Demand Eight-Hour Day. Two Hold in Bail Here.

By Unknown Author

54,000 garage workers, truck drivers and longshoremen threaten sympathetic strike

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LOBBY INQUIRY AIRS ATTEMPT TO PUNISH TARIFF BOARD AIDE; Pottery Manufacturers Sought Removal of F.L. Koch, an Expert, for Stand on Revision. LETTER WRITTEN TO HOOVER William Burgess, Ex-Commissioner, Testifies to His Activities as Employed Spokesman. REVEALS HIS OTHER JOBS Chairman Marvin of Commission Tells of Purposes of the Home Market Club of Boston. Burgess Demurs to Questions. ATTEMPT TO PUNISH TARIFF BOARD AIDE Denies He Is a Lobbyist. Wylie's Letter to President. Koch Says Advice Was Official. Marvin Tells of Tariff Club. Denies Seeking Koch's Dismissal. Woll Denies Conferring With Grundy

By Special to The New York Times

Denies rept that he dined with J Grundy and conferred with him on tariff bill

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Notable Births

Fernanda Montenegro

1929Fernanda Montenegro, Brazilian actress[†]

Arlette Pinheiro Esteves Torres, known by her stage name Fernanda Montenegro, is a Brazilian actress. Considered by many as the greatest Brazilian actress of all time, she is often referred to as the grande dame of Brazilian theater, cinema, and performing arts. For her work in Central Station (1998), she has become the first Brazilian and first Latin American to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, as well as the first actress nominated for an Academy Award for a performance in a Portuguese language film. Her daughter was also nominated in 2025. In addition, for her performance in Sweet Mother (2014), she has become the first Brazilian to win the Emmy Award for Best Actress.