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December 26, 1931

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REVISION WILL BE SOUGHT; Governments to Attempt to Garry Out Suggestion of Young Plan Experts. FRENCH SEE OUR AID VITAL Paris Observers Expect Only Temporary Solution Because Two Issues Are Linked. ACTION DUE TO CONGRESS Britain and France Decided to Try to Act Together When Out Attitude Became Evident. All Look to United States. Our Attitude Brought Accord. REPARATION PARLEY IS SET FOR JAN. 18 Dawes and Young Plans.

By Lansing Warren. Special Cable To the York Times

French and Brit Govts agree on Jan 18 as time and Hague as place for debts and reparations conf suggested in Basle rept

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ROOSEVELT TO URGE NEW TAXES BY FEB.1 TO SPREAD BURDEN; If Leaders Favor Policy He Will Give Emergency Program to the Assembly on Jan. 6. HEWITT ENDORSES THE IDEA State Would Thus Have l7 Months Instead of a Year to Pay, the Governor Reasons. SPENDS DAY WITH FAMILY After Week-End at Hyde Park Home He Will Return to Albany to Work on Annual Message. Extra Week for Assembly Study. Spends Christmas With Family. ROOSEVELT TO URGE NEW TAXES BY FEB.1

By Special to The New York Times

Approves Gov Roosevelt's plan for new taxes to be applied Feb 1

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Melvil Dewey

1931Melvil Dewey, American librarian and educator, created the Dewey Decimal Classification (born 1851)[†]

Melville Louis Kossuth "Melvil" Dewey was an American librarian and educator who invented the Dewey Decimal system of library classification. He was a founder of the Lake Placid Club, a chief librarian at Columbia College, founder of what would later become the Columbia University School of Library Service, and a founding member of the American Library Association. Although Dewey's contributions to the modern library are widely recognized, his legacy is marred by his sexual harassment of female colleagues, as well as his racism and antisemitism.