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May 22, 1932

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CLUB WINS BACKING ON BOLT FOR SMITH; Omaha Group Is Swamped by Pledges for Hoover Unless the Ex-Governor Is Nominated. LETTERS COME BY BUSHEL New Yorkers and Pennsylvanians Acclaim Idea, Some Urging an Independent Candidacy.

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

OMAHA, May 21 -- The "Smith-or-Hoover" Democratic Club, formed in Omaha several weeks ago with the object of bringing together Democrats who if they are not given a chance to vote for former Governor Smith, intend to support President Hoover in the election this Fall, is attracting attention all over the country.

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DO-X FORCED DOWN AT SEA NEAR AZORES; Fuel Shortage Compels Flying Boat to Taxi Nearly Seven Miles to Horta. HAD BIG GASOLINE LOAD But 12-Engined Craft Is Not Designed for Long Flights -- Rest of Hops Shorter. FLYING BOAT DO-X ARRIVES AT AZORES

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

HORTA, Azores, May 21 -- The flying boat Do-X arrived off this harbor at 10:55 P.M. tonight [8:55 P. M. New York Daylight Time] after having been forced to land on the sea six and two-thirds miles out because of a shortage of fuel.

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Notable Births

1932Robert Spitzer, American psychiatrist and academic (died 2015)[†]

Robert Leopold Spitzer was a psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at Columbia University in New York City. He was a major force in the development of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).

Notable Deaths

Lady Gregory

1932Augusta, Lady Gregory, Anglo-Irish activist, landlord, and playwright, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (born 1852)[†]

Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory was an Anglo-Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies. Lady Gregory produced a number of books of retellings of stories taken from Irish mythology. Born into a class that identified closely with British rule, she turned against it. Her conversion to cultural nationalism, as evidenced by her writings, was emblematic of many of the political struggles that occurred in Ireland during her lifetime.