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June 20, 1932

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Headlines from June 20, 1932

TROOP TRAIN PLAN FOR BONUS EXODUS EVOLVED AT CAPITAL; Wartime Specials With Cook Cars Would Take Veterans to Homes Over the Country. PROVIDED BY BLACK'S BILL His $125,000 Measure, Backed by Garner and Rainey, May Be Put Through House. ARMY" TURNS TO POLITICS Council Rejects Republicans, Decides to Query Democrats and Talks of Third Party. PLAN TROOP TRAINS FOR BONUS EXODUS

By From a Staff Correspondent.Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Troop-train plan for bonus army exodus evolved by Repr Black; plan supported by Reprs Rainey and Garner

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TRADE LEADERS URGE WORLD PARLEY ACT ON DEBTS AND TARIFF; Majority of Replies to Butler Questionnaire Hold Success Depends on These Issues. APPEAL TO PUBLIC PLANNED League of Nations Association Will Seek to Rouse Opinion to Alter Congress Stand. COLLECTIVE ACTION ASKED Financiers and Business Men Say Consideration of Trade Barriers Is Needed to Aid Recovery. TRADE LEADERS ASK DEBT-TARIFF ACTION

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U S trade leaders urge world parley to aid economic recovery

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Notable Births

Robert Rozhdestvensky

1932Robert Rozhdestvensky, Russian poet and author (died 1994)[†]

Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky was a Soviet-Russian poet and songwriter who broke with socialist realism in the 1950s–1960s during the Khrushchev Thaw and, along with such poets as Andrei Voznesensky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and Bella Akhmadulina, pioneered a newer, fresher, and freer style of poetry in the Soviet Union.