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July 25, 1931

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FLETCHER WILL QUIT TARIFF COMMISSION; Chairman Says He Will Retire in September as He Stipulated When He Took Post. HIS TASK ENDED, HE HOLDS Board Reorganized and Work Before It Nearly Finished in His Year of Service. Developed Foreign Work. Reports All Unanimous. FLETCHER WILL QUIT TARIFF COMMISSION Served With Rough Riders.

By Special to The New York Times.Times Wide World Photo

Announces resignation as chmn of Tariff Comm on or about Sept 15; resume of work on comm

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30 DEAD, 20 MISSING IN PITTSBURGH FIRE AT HOME FOR AGED; Flames Swiftly Envelop Old Building of Little Sisters of the Poor, Housing 250. INMATES LEAP INTO NETS Rescue Squads, Aided by Nuns, Carry Out Others as Ladders Burn at Windows. TAXIS MOBILIZED TO AID More Than 100 Victims in Hospitals --Confusion Prevents Complete Check-Up of Tragedy. Spreads From Infirmary. Taxicabs Used as Ambulances. 30 PERISH IN FIRE IN HOME FOR AGED Ladders Burn at Window-Sills Mother Superior Carried Out. To Search Ruins for More Dead. Woman Rescued as She Prays. Scale Walls and Smash Gates.

By Special to The New York Times

Home for Aged; 30 dead, 20 missing and 100 or more in hosps

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1931James Butler, English sculptor and educator (died 2022)[†]

James Walter Butler MBE RA was a British sculptor most famous for his 1980 statue of Richard III in Leicester.