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August 27, 1932

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Headlines from August 27, 1932

SHERWOOD'S FUNDS KEPT FROM SHERIFF BY WALKER WITNESS; Employe in Law Firm Admits Putting Checks in Her Own Account in New Jersey. STANTON DISPUTES HERRICK Denies Any Part in Purchase or Stock Linked to Mayor and Equitable Backers. STORY STIRS THE GOVERNOR Curtin Rebuked for Trying to Curb Roosevelt's Questions -- Walker Home for Week-End Rest. SHERWOOD FUNDS KEPT FROM SHERIFF

By F. Raymond Daniell.special To the New York Times.by F. Raymond Daniell

Miss M T Day, testifying Sherwood managed affairs for several clients, reveals she deposited checks for Sherwood to her own account; E G Stanton and Miss E Wagner testify on Interstate Trust Co stock deal

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CHALLENGES CRITICS OF LOANS BY R.F.C.; Pomerene Directs Fire at Those Who Have Alleged Favoritism to "Big Business." SAYS FIGURES DISPROVE IT 69.3% of Loans Made to Small Banks, 37% of Nation's Depositors Aided. CHALLENGES CRITICS OF LOANS BY R.F.C.

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

A Pomerene reviews 6-mos' work; shows distribution of funds and aid to depositors in closed banks

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HOUSE OWNERS GET RESPITE; Controller Pole Orders a 60-Day Suspension by All Receivers. STATES ARE ASKED TO JOIN Chairman Fort of Home Loan Board Cites "Portia's" Plea in an Appeal for Cooperation. WIDE RELIEF IS EXPECTED Industrial Conference Delegates Are Told That Move May Extend to All Foreclosures. BARS FORECLOSURES BY CLOSED BANKS

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Comptroller Pole speaks on work of Fed Home Loan Banks in stopping foreclosures on first mortgages

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Bretons Cheer "Death Song," Calling for Break With France

By the Associated Press

autonomists sing and applaud as fragments of statue are removed

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Fuel Supply Exhausted.

By Unknown Author

OSLO, Saturday, Aug. 27 (AP). -- Airdrome officials here calculated this morning that if Clyde A. Lee and John Bochkon had remained aloft their gasoline supply must by this time have been exhausted. But lights were kept burning for them and great projectors swept the darkened sky.

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1932Cor Brom, Dutch footballer and manager (died 2008)^[†]

Cor Brom was a Dutch football player and manager.

1932Antonia Fraser, English historian and author^[†]

Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction. She is the widow of the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Harold Pinter (1930–2008), and prior to his death was also known as Lady Antonia Pinter.

Headlines from August 27, 1932

CHALLENGES CRITICS OF LOANS BY R.F.C.; Pomerene Directs Fire at Those Who Have Alleged Favoritism to "Big Business." SAYS FIGURES DISPROVE IT 69.3% of Loans Made to Small Banks, 37% of Nation's Depositors Aided. CHALLENGES CRITICS OF LOANS BY R.F.C.

Bretons Cheer "Death Song," Calling for Break With France

Fuel Supply Exhausted.

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