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March 22, 1931

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STAMFORD SHOWS REALTY ACTIVITY; Revival of Home Buying and Building Starts--New Areas Opened. STREET WIDENING PLANNED Merritt Highway Project Supported by Civic Bodies--Ample Water Supply Provided. Highway Plan Creates Activity. Predicts New Home Areas. STAMFORD SHOWS REALTY ACTIVITY

By Unknown Author

Although well-informed real estate dealers look for no boom of Stamford, Conn., real estate during 1931 they do expect a steady increase in volume of sales and a marked improvement over 1930. There is little hope that the figures of 1928-29, a banner year, will be equaled.

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GERMANY AND AUSTRIA JOIN IN A FULL CUSTOMS UNION; EVASION OF TREATIES SEEN; TARIFF WAIL IS ABOLISHED Two Nations Will Pool Receipts Under Accord to Run Three Years. THEY CITE BRIAND'S PLAN Both Deny Their Sovereignty Is Affected and Invite Other Countries to Act With Them. VIENNA SEES 'ANSCHLUSS' Initial Step Is Regarded as Circumventing at Least Spirit of Peace Treaties. Differs From Other Projects. Decide on Practical Start. Political Union Forbidden.

By Kendall Foss. Special Cable To the New York Times

Austro-German customs union seen as evasion of Section VI, Article 80; text

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MEDICAN OPINION; Stimson Statement Comes in for Sharp Comment. The Monroe Doctrine. Merely an Opinion. The Hughes Statement. Aid to Latin America The Pan American Union. Divergent Facts Seen. Sees No Improvement.

By Pedro Merla, Former President Mexican House of Representatives

MEXICO CITY. Having just finished the task of perus ing the "carefully worked out statement made by Secretary Stimson in reply to criticisms of State Department decisions in the series of crises during the past two

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Notable Births

Burton Richter

1931Burton Richter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)[โ€ ]

Burton Richter was an American physicist. He led the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) team which co-discovered the J/ฯˆ meson in 1974, alongside the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) team led by Samuel Ting for which they won Nobel Prize for Physics in 1976. This discovery was part of the November Revolution of particle physics. He was the SLAC director from 1984 to 1999.

William Shatner

1931William Shatner, Canadian actor[โ€ ]

William Shatner is a Canadian actor. In a career spanning seven decades, he is best known for his portrayal of Captain James T. Kirk in the Star Trek franchise, from his 1966 debut as the captain of the starship Enterprise in the second pilot of the first Star Trek television series to his final appearance as Captain Kirk in the seventh Star Trek feature film, Star Trek Generations (1994).

Ann Shulgin

1931Ann Shulgin, psychedelic researcher and author (died 2022)[โ€ ]

Laura Ann Shulgin was an American author and the wife of chemist Alexander Shulgin, with whom she wrote PiHKAL and TiHKAL.

Leslie Thomas

1931Leslie Thomas, Welsh journalist and author (died 2014)[โ€ ]

Leslie Thomas, OBE was a Welsh author best known for his comic novel The Virgin Soldiers.

Notable Deaths

James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy

1931James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, Irish lawyer and politician (born 1851)[โ€ ]

James Henry Mussen Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy,, was an Irish lawyer, politician in the British Parliament and later in the Oireachtas of the Irish Free State. He was also Lord Chancellor of Ireland.