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March 12, 1933

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Notable Births

1933Myrna Fahey, American actress (died 1973)^[†]

Myrna Fahey was an American actress known for her role as Maria Crespo in Walt Disney's Zorro and as Madeline Usher in The Fall of the House of Usher.

1933Barbara Feldon, American actress^[†]

Barbara Feldon is an American actress primarily known for her roles on television. Her most prominent role was that of Agent 99 in the 1965–1970 sitcom Get Smart.

Historical Events

1933Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats".^[†]

The Great Depression was a severe global economic downturn from 1929 to 1939. The period was characterized by high rates of unemployment and poverty, drastic reductions in industrial production and international trade, and widespread bank and business failures around the world. The economic contagion began in 1929 in the United States, the largest economy in the world, with the devastating Wall Street crash of 1929 often considered the beginning of the Depression. Among the countries with the most unemployed were the U.S., the United Kingdom, and Germany.

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BANKS OPEN FIRST IN RESERVE CITIES; Both National and State May Do Business Monday if Licensed as Sound. 250 CITIES ON TUESDAY Clearing House Points Then, and All Others Wednesday -- Roosevelt on Radio Tonight. ROOSEVELT ISSUES BANK OPENING PLAN

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Feature article on paradox of having more money for domestic use than ever before and yet having banks operating on restricted basis and new currency about to be issued; illus

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Plea for a Better Understanding On Redaction of Mortgage Interest; Chairman of Citizens Budget Commission Says if Mortgagor and Mortgagee Cannot Bring the Obligations Into Mesh With Current Conditions, Both Must Go Down to Destruction.

By Unknown Author

"If mortgagor and mortgagee cannot bring the obligation into mesh with current conditions, they must both go down to destruction together," said Peter Grimm, president of Wm. A. White Sons and chairman of the Citizens Budget Commisson, yesterday, in pleading for a better understanding of the ills of real estate and the need for interest rate revision.

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HUNT BODIES IN THE RUINS; Searchers in Danger as Wreckage Sways Under New Tremors. RELIEF WORK IS IN HAND Food and Supplies Donated as Gov. Rolph and Emergency Board Take Charge. ARMY AND NAVY HELP Pneumonia Breaks Out Among Los Angeles Residents Who Spent Night in the Open. CALIFORNIA DEAD IN EARTHQUAKE 130

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Gets reprieve from death sentence from Gov Rolph

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Landlord Aids Tenant in Court.

By Unknown Author

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DRAMA NOTES OF LONDON AND PARIS; VARIED ACTIVITIES IN LONDON AND PARIS

By CHARLES MORGAN

LONDON, Feb. 27. OUTSIDE one of the theatres in London is a placard containing quotations from published criticisms of the entertainment within. Special prominence is given to the words of a critic who has lavished praise upon the acting, and a phrase of his in which he describes it as "Better than in Paris, better than in Berlin" is particularly emphasized.

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THE LIFE OF RICHARD WAGNER; Ernest Newman's Biography of the Composer Is Rich in New Material THE LIFE OF RICHARD WAGNER. By Ernest Newman. Illustrated. Volume I, 1813-1848, xxvii, 512. xxxi pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. $5. Richard Wagner

By Richard Aldrich

THE uninterrupted flux of books about Wagner -- biographies, collections of letters, analyses and all the rest -- has already been increased and doubtless will be further increased this year because it is the fiftieth anniversary of his death Already four new biographies have appeared since November, and the year is still young.

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ALL BANKS HERE SET TO OPEN TOMORROW; Word That Reserve Members Can Resume Is Expected From Treasury Today. BRODERICK ALSO IS READY He Will Act Quickly for State Institutions -- Gold Returned Totals $108,000,000. BANKS HERE SET FOR REOPENING

By Unknown Author

Hoarders rush to Fed Reserve Bank of N Y

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BANKS, MONEY, GOLD: THE TRIANGLE CHARTED; The Fundamentals and the Background of the Present Situation Set Out; How, Despite a Vast Supply of Gold and of Currency, the Emergency Developed and How It Is Proposed to Deal With It

By Charles Merz

Banking crisis

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APARTMENT RENTS BEING STABILIZED; Further Reductions in Assessed Valuations Forecast by C.G. Dailey. EXEMPTIONS ARE OPPOSED Realty Group Hears Suggestion for Diverting Federal Loans to Public Works.

By Unknown Author

The problems of reduced rentals and increased vacancies are being studied intensively by landlords and apartment managers who are seeking to smooth out as quickly as possible the difficulties which have arisen as a part of the general disturbed business situation

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SINS OF BOTH HOUSES; Maxwell Anderson Contributes a Dark Mirror to Life as They Have It Down in Washington

By Brooks Atkinson

WHEN the country is plunged into the midst of a dramatic crisis the stage drama takes second place. The newspapers, the rumors, the office forums, the community of interest, the astonishing good will, the suspense and the expectancy quicken life a good deal; and as Brown and Henderson, the meditative song-smithies, conclude in one of their "Strike Me Pink" tunes, "It's Great to Be Alive" no matter what the alarms may be.

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Camera-Timer in I.C.A.A.A.A. Race Shows Only One of Six Places Decided Correctly

By Unknown Author

Only 1 of 6 places in 70-yd high hurdles at I C A A A A meet decided correctly by human vision, according to Kirby Cameratimer

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Crisis Here Stirs Irish Sympathy; Many Persons Cannot Cash Checks; Bond of Kinship From Emigration Is Especially Marked Now -- Move to End Long-Continued Rail Strike Stirs Hope -- Loss Is Put at u1,500,000. CRISIS HERE STIRS SYMPATHY OF IRISH

By Hugh Smith.wireless To the New York Times.by Hugh Smith

Irish Free State sympathizes deeply in crisis

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