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August 21, 1930

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WICKERSHAM SCORES PETTY DRY FELONIES; LAWYERS BACK POLL; Hoover Commission Head Says America Lacks LawMindedness.OBSERVANCE IS ESSENTIALIn Bar Association Address, HeDefends Board's Study ofAll Legal Codes.BIG VOTE FOR REFERENDUMCommittee Reports 15,000 Countedon Wet-Dry Issue--Farm Board Attack Is Quashed. Stress on Law Observance. Wickersham Scores Making Petty Offenders Felons Executive Committee Report. Referendum Is Supported. Wickersham Explains Investigation Sees Confusion in Jones Law. Full Scope of Investigation Rule by Commissions. He Discounts the View. General Work of Commission.

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S on work of Comm on Law Observance and Enforcement, before Amer Bar Assn

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SMITH SEES RETURN OF DEMOCRATIC RULE ON PROSPERITY ISSUE; Turns Back the Slogan Used by Republicans to Defeat Him for Presidency In 1928. UPHOLDS SHOUSE VIEWS Expected to Stress in Campaign That Hoover Regime Must Bear Onus for Depression. DEFINES PARTY PRINCIPLES In Telegram to New Jersey Group 'He Restates Opposition to Oppressive and Sumptuary Laws. In Line With Shouse Views. Outlines Party Principles. SMITH FORECASTS DEMOCRATIC RULE See Attack on 1928 Issues.

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Defined by A E Smith in alleged telegram to J Parker Assn

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Notable Births

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

1930Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (died 2002)[†]

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. She was the younger sister and only sibling of Queen Elizabeth II.

Frank Perry

1930Frank Perry, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1995)[†]

Frank Joseph Perry Jr. was an American stage director and filmmaker. His 1962 independent film David and Lisa earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. The couple collaborated on five more films, including The Swimmer, Diary of a Mad Housewife, and the Emmy Award–nominated A Christmas Memory, based on a short story by Truman Capote. Perry went on to form Corsair Pictures, privately financed by United Artists Theatres, which produced Miss Firecracker and A Shock to the System, then folded. His later films include Mommie Dearest and the documentary On the Bridge, about his battle with prostate cancer.