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June 5, 1931

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BARS KRESEL'S VIEWS ON BANK OF U.S.DEAL; Court Blocks Testimony as to Whether He Upheld as Legal $8,000,000 Transaction. LAWYER VAGUE ON DETAILS Testifies Criticism by Aide of Broderick Was Softened After Parleys With Chief. Critized Examiner's Report. BARS KRESEL VIEWS ON BANK OF U.S.DEAL Gives His Views on Conference. Court Bars a Question. Long Story of Conference.

By Unknown Author

Kresel not permitted to testify as to whether he upheld deal as legal at conf on Jan 11, 1930

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COMMISSION URGES CUP IN BRITISH DOLE, LABOR PAYING MORE; MacDonald's Own Board Asks Reduction of $165,000,000 a Year in Benefits. MOST LABORITES ANGERED Left Wing Members Immediately Open War on Plan--Premier Expected to Act Slowly, REPORT TELLS OF ABUSES Proposes Stricter Examination of Applicants as Well as Increased Rates for Employers and State.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Comm apptd by MacDonald Govt asks reduction of $165,000,000 a yr in benefits and increase of $45,000,000 a yr in contributions to fund

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Notable Births

1931Yves Blais, Canadian businessman and politician (died 1998)[†]

Yves Blais was a politician in the Canadian province of Quebec. He served in National Assembly of Quebec from 1981 to 1998 as a member of the Parti Québécois (PQ).

Jacques Demy

1931Jacques Demy, French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1990)[†]

Jacques Demy was a French director, screenwriter and lyricist. He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy's films are celebrated for their visual style, which drew upon diverse sources such as classic Hollywood musicals, the plein-air realism of his French New Wave colleagues, fairy tales, jazz, Japanese manga, and the opera. His films contain overlapping continuity, lush musical scores and motifs like teenage love, labor rights, chance encounters, incest, and the intersection between dreams and reality. He was married to AgnÚs Varda, another prominent director of the French New Wave. Demy is best known for the two musicals he directed in the mid-1960s: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967).

Jerzy Prokopiuk

1931Jerzy Prokopiuk, Polish anthropologist and philosopher (died 2021)[†]

Jerzy Prokopiuk was a Polish anthroposophist, gnostic, philosopher, and translator of literature, born in Warsaw. He translated into Polish works written by Aldous Huxley, Rudolf Steiner, Carl Gustav Jung, Max Weber and many other authors.