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November 7, 1929

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CITY REPUBLICANS DEMAND NEW LEADERSHIP TO CHECK DEMOCRATS IN STATE IN 1930; DEFEAT AROUSES THEM Hoover's Friends Said to Be Concerned Over Tammany Sweep. VOTE ESTABLISHES CURRY McCooey Also Strengthened-- Democrats See Re-election of Roosevelt Assured. McKEE AND MILLER IN FORE Pushed for Mayor in 1933-- Socialists Encouraged--Harvey Is Ready to Take Lead. Republicans Analyze Vote. CITY REPUBLICANS WANT NEW LEADERS Seen as Aid to Roosevelt. La Guardia Promises Statement. Socialists Are Encouraged. Enright Vote Small. Untermyer Total Large.

By Unknown Author

Better leadership demanded to check Dems in 1930 State campaign

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HOOVER PONDERS BAN ON SHEARER BACKERS; He Seriously Considers Refusing Further Warship Contracts to Three Ship Concerns. WORK UNDER WAY TO GO ON Action Would Apply to Ten Cruisers Yet to Be Laid Down in Private Yards. HOOVER PONDERSBAN ON SHEARER BACKERS Called Shearer Merely Observer. Committee to Ask Shearer's Status. Rumor Mitchell Made Report.

By Special to The New York Times

Hoover said to be considering ban on Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp, Amer Brown-Boveri Elec Corp and Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co; action would apply to 10 cruisers still to be laid down in private yards

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Notable Births

Jesús de Polanco

1929Jesús de Polanco, Spanish publisher and businessman (died 2007)[†]

Jesús Polanco Gutiérrez, also known as Jesús de Polanco, was a businessman from Spain who built one of the largest media empires in the world. In 2005, he was ranked 3rd richest person in Spain and at number 210 in Forbes World's Richest People list, and was number 258 in 2006.

Eric Kandel

1929Eric Kandel, Austrian-American neuroscientist and psychiatrist, Nobel Prize laureate[†]

Eric Richard Kandel is an Austrian-born American medical doctor who specialized in psychiatry. He was also a neuroscientist and a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. He was a recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons. He shared the prize with Arvid Carlsson and Paul Greengard.

Lila Kaye

1929Lila Kaye, English actress (died 2012)[†]

Lila Kaye was an English actress. She spent a number of years working in the United States, on Broadway and in television, before returning to England.

Historical Events

Museum of Modern Art

1929In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.[†]

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, and includes over 200,000 works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated and artist's books, film, as well as electronic media.