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EXIT--with appropriate ceremonies or otherwise--the theatrical season of 1929-30. There is no definite date, of course, for the official ending of a season, but after tomorrow night there will be no more productions until the week of June 2, so this is as good a time as any to claim that the season is over.
Changing under Soviet rule
ON the eve of the May primaries which will determine who are to be the nominees for Governor and United States Senator, the Republican party in Pennsylvania finds itself in a state of violent confusion compared with which the activities of the famous Kilkenny cats were ridiculously mild.
Breach closed between his adherents and those of ex-King Manuel II in monarchist movement
1930Warren Rudman, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (died 2012)[†]
Warren Bruce Rudman was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States Senator from New Hampshire from 1980 to 1993. A member of the Republican Party, he was known as a moderate centrist, to such an extent that President Clinton approached him in 1994 about replacing departing Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen in Clinton's cabinet, an offer that Rudman declined.
1930Fred Saberhagen, American soldier and author (died 2007)[†]
Fred Thomas Saberhagen was an American science fiction and fantasy author most famous for his Berserker series of science fiction short stories and novels.