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March 15, 1930

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STEEL TAX REFUND STIRS INQUIRY MOVE; Melton Is Assailed in House by Garner for $33,000,000 Grant to Corporation. FAVORITISM IS CHARGED Texan Says the Secretary's "Beneficence" to Own Companies Forces Yielding to Others. Sought $77,000,000 Refund. STEEL TAX REFUND STIRS INQUIRY MOVE Report Voted by Hawley Alone. Cites Admitted Facts. Notes Pennsylvania Refunds. Tells of Oil Refund. Proposed Refunds Listed. Agreement Is Explained. Allowance for Amortization.

By Special to The New York Times

Sec Mellon announces $33,000,000 refund; Repr Garner demands Cong inquiry

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MAYOR'S QUIET GIBES ANSWER RED TIRADE ON UNEMPLOYMENT; Estimate Board Hears Foster and Minor in Long Attack on Capitalism and Whalen. TWO EVADE VIOLENCE TALK But Are Quite Sure Revolution Will Come--Call Nightsticks City Program on Idleness. THOMAS AND WALKER SPAR Socialist Leader Urges Municipal Job and Relief Agencies and Speeding of Public Works. Detectives Mingle With Crowd. MAYOR'S QUIET GIBES ANSWER RED TIRADE Whalen Called "Coward." Waldman Opens Discussion. Calls Situation Serious. Asks Regional Relief Offices. Detectives Try to Oust Reds. Mayor Cuts Him Short. Does Not Know McKee.

By Unknown Author

Spars with J J Walker on unemployment

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'BISHOP OF BOWERY' PRAISES DRY LAW; Recalls the Evils of the Old Street and Tells of Derelicts Reclaimed. SEES GAIN IN PROHIBITION Raymond Robins Tells Committee Country Is Dry and Wet Bills Are Foredoomed. 'BISHOP OF BOWERY' PRAISES DRY LAW Robins Says Country Is Dry. Long Fight Traced. Congress "Becoming Drier." "Wet Press" Criticized. Mission Heads Endorse Law. More Drinking in Fraternities. Says Canada Observes Laws.

By Special to The New York Times

Testifies on prohibition before House Judiciary Com

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Zhores Alferov

1930Zhores Alferov, Belarusian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019)[†]

Zhores Ivanovich Alferov was a Soviet and Russian physicist and academic who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. He shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of the semiconductor heterojunction for optoelectronics. He also became a politician in his later life, serving in the lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, as a member of the Communist Party from 1995.