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1932Danny McDevitt, American baseball player (died 2010)[†]
Daniel Eugene McDevitt was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1957 through 1962 for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, Minnesota Twins and Kansas City Athletics. The left-hander was listed at 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall and 170 pounds (77 kg).
R G Tugwell, L Rogers and others
McKee becomes leader of unorganized anti-Tammany fusion; S S Koenig pledges support; N Y Com of 1,000 decides to cooperate in formation of independent party
Finance Com of Bd of Aldermen meets; considers reductions; T J Watson, for Merchants Assn of N Y, and P Grimm, for Citizens Budget Comm, plead for reductions
Min of Justice Renoult asks raising of Parliamentary immunity of Sens Schrameck, Vieillard and P Jourdain
On expenditures for Hoover campaign
stops at Benguela and Mossamedes; continues flight; map
LONDON, Nov. 17 (AP). -- Captain Mollison received a message tonight saying that Miss Johnson had taken off from Mossamedes, continuing her England-to-Cape Town flight.
both to have advisers
New tax bill at "lame-duck" session of Cong appears inevitable; Repr Collier, chmn of Ways and Means Com, estimates $700,000,000 necessary to balance budget; convinced beer taxation alone will not meet demand; believes passage of general mfrs' sales tax would be difficult; protests against excises continue
Plans for projected ship and plane service, London-N Y; liners to run between Galway and Halifax, N S, to connect with planes; airport to be built at Galway