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April 15, 1931

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GOVERNOR REQUESTS MINUTES ON CRAIN; QUICK DECISION SEEN; Critics of Prosecutor Predict Early Action--Albany Denies Move Is Significant. PATHE HEARING ON MONDAY Seabury Moves to Wind Up the Inquiry May 1--Rothstein Case Is Taken Up. KLEIN DATA TO PROSECUTOR Harvey Rebuffed In Plea for Bribe Evidence--Hofstadter Summons Legislative Committee. GOVERNOR ACTS ON CRAIN. Text of Governor's Letter. Crain Had Attacked Governor. GOVERNOR REQUESTS MINUTES ON CRAIN Queried on Rothstein Case. Johnstone Studying Evidence.

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Comptroller Berry refuses Harvey's request for minutes of investigation of Klein bribery charge

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Kenneth Bloomfield

1931Kenneth Bloomfield, Northern Irish civil servant (died 2025)[†]

Sir Kenneth Percy Bloomfield, KCB was a Northern Irish civil servant who was Head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS) and was later a member of the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains. For a time, he was also Northern Ireland Victims Commissioner.

Tomas Tranströmer

1931Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet, translator, and psychologist Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)[†]

Tomas Gösta Tranströmer was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems captured the long winters in Sweden, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature. Tranströmer's work is also characterized by a sense of mystery and wonder underlying the routine of everyday life, a quality which often gives his poems a religious dimension. He has been described as a Christian poet.