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April 27, 1932
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Headlines from April 27, 1932
HOUSE SET FOR TEST ON ECONOMY TODAY; Foes Boast Strength to Defeat Special Rule to Make a Rider of Measure. FIGHT CENTRES ON PAY CUT Sponsors Say the Bill Will Be Wrecked if Their Plan of Procedure Loses. HOUSE AWAITS TEST ON ECONOMY TODAY
Foes of economy bill prepare to fight rule to attach it as rider to legis appropriation bill
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STATE SENATOR ON PAYROLL; Got $1,000 a Month as a Political Contact Man, Witness Declares. TIME LIMIT SET ON GIFT Former Fageol Aide Says Money "Probably" Went to "Society Called Tammany." DEMOCRATS STRIKE BACK Minority, Taken by Surprise, Halts Hearing in Fight to Get Seabury's Secret Data. Equitable Bus Line Backers Bared at Hearing
C B Rose testifies that Hastings demanded contribution to Mayor Walker's campaign in 1925 as step toward obtaining franchise for Equitable Coach Co
Lindley Maps Trail for Mount McKinley Climb; 8,000 Feet Up, He Writes of His Prospects; LINDLEY IN CAMP ON ALASKA GLACIER
Liek-Lindley Expedition
Notable Births
1932Anouk Aimée, French actress (died 2024)[†]
Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus, known professionally as Anouk Aimée or Anouk, was a French film actress who appeared in 70 films from 1947 until 2019. Having begun her film career at age 14, she studied acting and dance in her early years, besides her regular education. Although the majority of her films were French, she also made films in Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy and Germany, along with some American productions.

1932Pik Botha, South African lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 8th South African Ambassador to the United States (died 2018)[†]
Roelof Frederik "Pik" Botha, was a South African politician who served as the country's foreign minister in the last years of the apartheid era, the longest-serving in South African history. Known as a liberal within the party, Botha served to present a friendly, conciliatory face on the regime, while criticised internally. He was a leading contender for the leadership of the National Party upon John Vorster's resignation in 1978, but was ultimately not chosen. Staying in the government after the first non-racial general election in 1994, he served under Mandela as Minister of Mineral and Energy Affairs from 1994 to 1996.

1932Casey Kasem, American disc jockey, radio celebrity, and voice actor; co-created American Top 40 (died 2014)[†]
Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem was an American disc jockey, actor, and radio presenter who created and hosted several radio countdown programs, notably American Top 40, as well as the weekly syndicated television series America's Top 10. He was the first actor to voice Shaggy Rogers in the Scooby-Doo franchise and Dick Grayson/Robin in Super Friends (1973–1985).
1932Chuck Knox, American football coach (died 2018)[†]
Charles Robert Knox was an American football coach at the high school, collegiate and professional levels. He served as head coach of three National Football League (NFL) teams, the Los Angeles Rams, Buffalo Bills (1978–1982), and Seattle Seahawks (1983–1991). He was a three-time AP NFL Coach of the Year and is a member of the Seahawks Ring of Honor.
1932Derek Minter, English motorcycle racer (died 2015)[†]
Derek Minter was an English Grand Prix motorcycle and short-circuit road racer. Born in Ickham, Kent, with education starting in nearby Littlebourne, he was versatile rider who rode a variety of machinery between 1955 and 1967 at increasing levels of expertise and in varying capacities and classes.

1932Gian-Carlo Rota, Italian-American mathematician and philosopher (died 1999)[†]
Gian-Carlo Rota was an Italian-American mathematician and philosopher. He spent most of his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked in combinatorics, functional analysis, probability theory, and phenomenology.
Notable Deaths

1932Hart Crane, American poet (born 1899)[†]
Harold Hart Crane was an American poet. Inspired by the Romantics and his fellow Modernists, Crane wrote highly stylized poetry, often noted for its complexity. His collection White Buildings (1926), featuring "Chaplinesque", "At Melville's Tomb", "Repose of Rivers" and "Voyages", helped to cement his place in the avant-garde literary scene of the time. The long poem The Bridge (1930) is an epic inspired by the Brooklyn Bridge.