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Bd of Estimate approves recommendations for abolition of 3 city burs
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Foreign Min Uchida, in s on foreign policy to House of Peers, warns China to end preparations for war; also says Japan would regard increase of Communist activities along Yangtse as "serious menace"; urges League to allow elasticity in operation of League covenant
Sinks in mid-Atlantic in hurricane; 22 of crew rescued by S S American Merchant; Capt and 3 others drowned; story of rescue; illus of American Merchant and por of capt
De Valera promises to abolish Sen or cut its membership, to curb opposition
1933Tony Marchi, English footballer (died 2022)[†]
Anthony Marchi was an English football player and manager.
1933Habib Thiam, Senegalese politician (died 2017)[†]
Habib Thiam was a Senegalese politician. He served as Prime Minister of Senegal on two occasions, from 1 January 1981 to 3 April 1983, and again from 8 April 1991 until 3 July 1998.
1933George Moore, Irish author, poet, and critic (born 1852)[†]
George Augustus Moore was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Moore came from a landed family of Catholics who lived at Moore Hall in Carra, County Mayo. He originally wanted to be a painter, and studied art in Paris during the 1870s. There, he befriended many of the leading French artists and writers of the day.