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February 9, 1931

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REPUBLICAN CHIEFS PLAN TO SIDETRACK NAVY BUILDING BILL; $74,000,000 Program Based on London Treaty Is Likely to Lie Over Till Next Congress. WOULD AVOID SENATE JAM Denying Economy Aim, Leaders Indicate a Desire to Avert an Extra Session. TO PRESS BATTLESHIP BILL Passage of the $30,000,000 Senate Measure to Modernize Three Warships Will Be Sought in House. Reasons for the Decision. Hope for Modernizing Bill. PLAN TO SIDETRACK NAVY BUILDING BILL Britain May Speed Building.

By Special to The New York Times

Repub House leaders plan to sidetrack administration program

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Thomas Bernhard

1931Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (died 1989)[†]

Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian novelist, playwright, poet and polemicist who is considered one of the most important German-language authors of the postwar era. He explored themes of death, isolation, obsession and illness in controversial literature that was pessimistic about the human condition and highly critical of post-war Austrian and European culture. He developed a distinctive prose style often featuring multiple perspectives on characters and events, idiosyncratic vocabulary and punctuation, and long monologues by protagonists on the verge of insanity.

Josef Masopust

1931Josef Masopust, Czech footballer and coach (died 2015)[†]

Josef Masopust was a Czech football player and coach. He played as midfielder and was a key player for Czechoslovakia, helping them reach the 1962 FIFA World Cup Final. He was capped 63 times, scoring ten goals for his national team.

Robert Morris (artist)

1931Robert Morris, American sculptor and painter (died 2018)[†]

Robert Morris was an American sculptor, conceptual artist and writer. He was regarded as having been one of the most prominent theorists of Minimalism along with Donald Judd, but also made important contributions to the development of performance art, land art, the Process Art movement, and installation art. Morris lived and worked in New York. In 2013 as part of the October Files, MIT Press published a volume on Morris, examining his work and influence, edited by Julia Bryan-Wilson.