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March 16, 1930

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FLOODS INTENSIFY FRENCH DEPRESSION; Disaster in Rich Valleys of the Southwest Comes in Midst of Feeling All Is Not Well. BLAME PUT ON HIGH TAXES Merchants Wonder if They Would Not Have Better Market With Reparations Abolished. Floods Enhance Gloom. Stories of the Disaster. Taxes Called Excessive. Reparations as Handicap. FLOODS INTENSIFY FRENCH DEPRESSION Ford and His Ambition.

By P.j. Philip. Wireless To the New York Times

PARIS, March 13.--Like every other country, France is just now moving through a period of partial crisis, There is, however, this difference, that France's crisis is less acute and more complicated than most of the others. It is not just financial or ...

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MISSOURI WETS SEE DRY OPINION WANING; St. Louis Aldermen Favor the Dyer Resolution to Legalize 2.75 Per Cent Beer. BAR MEMBERS FOR REPEAL Leaders of Both Political Parties Regard Prohibition as Leading Campaign issue. Dyer Plan Favored. Bar Association for Repeal. MISSOURI WETS SEE DAY OPINION WANING

By Louis la Coss. Editorial Correspondence of the New York Times

ST. LOUIS, March 12.--Coincident with the debate in Congress over prohibition enforcement and The Literary Digest's poll on the Eighteenth Amendment, public expresston of sentiment over the liquor situation in Missouri has been unusually vehement lately, and if one may

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MOVE FOR 5-POWER TREATY GOES ON WITH TARDIEU'S AID; HE BIDS FOR BRITISH HELP; LEADERS WILL MEET TODAY Premiers of Britain and France, With Stimson, to Discuss Vital Issues. PARITY FOR ITALY BARRED France is Expected to Propose End of Political Talk and Action on Tonnages. JAPANESE ADMIT ACCORD Agreement With America, Now Before Emperor, Calls for 70% Cruiser Ratio. Tardieu's Probable Stand. Franco-British Proposals. Italian Demand for Colony. Japanese-American Accord. Depends on British Totals. Accomplishments of Conference.

By Edwin L. James. Special Cable To the New York Times

Returns to London; outline of probable stand with relations to Italy and Great Britain

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Notable Births

Tommy Flanagan (musician)

1930Tommy Flanagan, American pianist and composer (died 2001)[†]

Thomas Lee Flanagan was an American jazz pianist and composer. He grew up in Detroit, initially influenced by such pianists as Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, and Nat King Cole, and then by bebop musicians. Within months of moving to New York in 1956, he had recorded with Miles Davis and on Sonny Rollins' album Saxophone Colossus. Recordings under various leaders, including Giant Steps of John Coltrane, continued well into 1962, when he became vocalist Ella Fitzgerald's full-time accompanist. He worked with Fitzgerald for three years until 1965, and then in 1968 returned to be her pianist and musical director, this time for a decade.

1930Minoru Miki, Japanese composer (died 2011)[†]

Minoru Miki was a Japanese composer and Artistic director. He was known for promoting Japanese, Chinese and Korean traditional instruments as well as some of their performers.

Notable Deaths

Miguel Primo de Rivera

1930Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (born 1870)[†]

Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, 2nd Marquis of Estella, GE, was a Spanish dictator and military officer who ruled as prime minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930 during the last years of the Bourbon Restoration.