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April 14, 1931

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COL. FRIEDSAM LEFT MILLIONS TO PUBLIC, HIS ART TO MUSEUM; $10,000,000 Collection Offered to Metropolitan on Condition It Remain Intact. SIX INSTITUTIONS ARE AIDED Niece Gets $250,000 Bequest and $250,000 in Trust and $150,000 Goes to Nephew. 9 EMPLOYES GET $21,000 Entire Residue of Estate Is to Be Devoted to Charity and Education, the Will Provides. Niece Receives $500,000. COL. FRIEDSAM LEFT MILLIONS TO PUBLIC Confidence in Executors. Rare Works of Art.

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CRAIN DENOUNCES ACCUSERS AS POLICE OFFICIAL ADMITS RACKETEERING IS CITY-WIDE; HITS 'ATTACK FROM REAR' Prosecutor Returns to Stand to Pledge "TwoYear" Racket War.INSPECTOR BACKS DEFENSELyons Tells of Futile Moves to Curb Extortion in Nearly All Lines of Business.GRAND JURY PROTEST READMembers Objected to Mass of Irrelevant Data, Clark Shows --Counsel in Heated Clash. CRAIN DEFIANT ON STAND. Scores "Attacks From Rear." Defends Policy on Markets. CRAIN AT HEARING ASSAILS ACCUSERS Grand Juror Is Rebuffed. Other Charges Sifted. Disputes Morgan Testimony. Grand Jury Protest Read. Found "Victims" Satisfied. Counsel in Heated Clash. Seabury Takes Up Questioning. Lauds Police for Aid. Calls Rackets Widespread. Sees New Laws Speeded. Aide Tells of Failures. Clothing Inquiry Futile. Police Inspector Testifies.

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Denies charge of laxity in prosecuting racketeers in Fulton Fish Market; says war on racketeers could be waged more successfully if Dist Atty were not attacked from rear

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Notable Births

1931Geoffrey Dalton, English admiral (died 2020)[†]

Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Thomas James Oliver Dalton was a Royal Navy officer who became Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic.

1931Paul Masnick, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2024)[†]

Paul Andrew Masnick was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played as centre in the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1950 and 1958.

Notable Deaths

Richard Armstedt

1931Richard Armstedt, German philologist, historian, and educator (born 1851)[†]

Richard Armstedt was a German philologist, educator, and historian.

Historical Events

Second Spanish Republic

1931The Second Spanish Republic is proclaimed and King Alfonso XIII goes to exile. Meanwhile, in Barcelona, Francesc Macià proclaims the Catalan Republic.[†]

The Spanish Republic, commonly known as the Second Spanish Republic, was the democratic government of Spain from 1931 to 1939. The Republic was proclaimed on 14 April 1931 after the deposition of King Alfonso XIII. It was dissolved on 1 April 1939 after surrendering in the Spanish Civil War to the Nationalists led by General Francisco Franco.