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December 31, 1929

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Headlines from December 31, 1929

The Times's Financial Review.

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MOVE TO PUT TEETH IN PEACE PACT SEEN IN PRE-PARLEY TALKS; Paris Forecasts a New Clause Providing for Conference of Signers in Time of Peril. TARDIEU TO SEE STIMSON Likely to Confer Just Before Naval Sessions--Will Meet MacDonald Jan. 11 or 12. WHITE PAPER INTERPRETED Stimson Says British Thesis That Neutrality Is Ended Refers Only to League Members. Likely to Meet at Chequers. Stimson's View of "White Paper." MOVE TO PUT TEETH IN THE PEACE PACT

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Sec Stimson says Brit White Paper refers to League members only in matter of neutrality; Paris foresees new clause which would provide for conf of signers in time of trouble

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New Lands Found by Wilkins In Antarctic Aerial Quest

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Radio rept says expedition has found new lands in Antarctic regions

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BITTER DRY FIGHT LOOMS IN CONGRESS WITH BORAH AND PRESIDENT AT ODDS; PRESENT CONFLICT WIDENS Drys Will Press Radical Penalties and Changes an Enforcement. WETS PUSH MODIFICATION Hoover and Borah Exchange Letters, Which White House Terms Confidential. TWO DRY RAIDERS SLAIN Die After Ambush in Virginia-- Others Shot in Kansas and California. Comment on Letters Refused. Nearly Ready With Board's Report Upholds the President's Course. BITTER DRY FIGHT LOOMS IN CONGRESS Concerned Over Radical Action.

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DR. GREEFF IS NAMED CITY HOSPITAL HEAD; Mayor Selects Him to Succeed Dr. Schroeder--L.C.L. Smith on Sanitation Board. MRS. REESE KEEPS POST Redesignated to Parole Board --C.C. Mollenhauer Placed on Teachers' Retirement Body. Seen as Fostering Harmony. Greeff Studied in Germany. DR. GREEFF IS NAMED CITY HOSPITAL HEAD Son to Take Up Smith's Work.

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L C L Smith named member

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1929Mies Bouwman, Dutch television host (died 2018)^[†]

Maria Antoinette "Mies" Bouwman was a Dutch television presenter.

1929Peter May, English cricketer (died 1994)^[†]

Peter Barker Howard May was an English cricketer who played for Surrey County Cricket Club, Cambridge University and England as an amateur. He was described as a "tall and handsome with a batting style that was close to classical, and... the hero of a generation of school boys" and by Wisden as a "schoolboy prodigy" who went on to become "one of England’s finest batsmen". He was made a CBE in 1981 and posthumously inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in 2009

Headlines from December 31, 1929

The Times's Financial Review.

New Lands Found by Wilkins In Antarctic Aerial Quest

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