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Makes pub correspondence between himself and Untermyer dealing with permanent reforms in city fiscal system
Gets loan from Pub Works Administration for low-cost housing project
Roosevelt will write code unless agreement is reached
1933Just Fontaine, Moroccan-French footballer and manager (died 2023)[â ]
Just Louis Fontaine was a French professional footballer who played as a striker. He scored the most goals ever in a single edition of the FIFA World Cup, with thirteen in six matches in the 1958 tournament. In March 2004, Pelé named him one of his 125 Greatest Living Footballers at a FIFA Awards Ceremony.
1933Roman Polanski, French-Polish director, producer, screenwriter, and actor[â ]
Raymond Roman Thierry PolaĆski is a Polish and French filmmaker and actor. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, three British Academy Film Awards, ten CĂ©sar Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, as well as the Golden Bear and a Palme d'Or.
1933Frank Salemme, American gangster and hitman (died 2022)[â ]
Francis Patrick Salemme, sometimes spelled Salemmi, also known as "Cadillac Frank" and "the General", was an American mobster from Boston, Massachusetts who became a hitman and eventually the boss of the Patriarca crime family of New England before turning government witness.
1933The VolksempfĂ€nger is first presented to the German public at a radio exhibition; the presiding Nazi Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, delivers an accompanying speech heralding the radio as the 'eighth great power'.[â ]
The VolksempfÀnger was a range of low-cost vacuum tube radio receivers produced in Germany during the 1930s. It was developed by engineer Otto Griessing at the request of Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda of the Nazi government.