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Gets black eye at Sands Point Bath Club; leaves N Y for Milwaukee
Johnson announces agreement on principal points at issue between United Mine Workers and operators in Appalachian field; $4.60 a day wage compromise; Roosevelt pleased
Gets rept on gold bootlegging
Cabinet shifts foreseen
U S Dept of Agr issues statement on London agreement; Argentina silent on policy
1933Sorel Etrog, Romanian-Canadian sculptor, painter, and illustrator (died 2014)[†]
Sorel Etrog, was a Romanian-born Israeli-Canadian artist, writer, and primarily, a sculptor. He specialized in modern art works and contemporary sculpture. Etrog's works explore his first-hand experience of the Second World War, the renewal of sculptural traditions in modern art, such as the use of bronze as a medium, and the opposition between the mechanical and the organic. One of Canada's leading artists in the 1960s, Etrog contributed to the country's growing interest in sculpture.
1933Arnold Koller, Swiss politician[†]
Arnold Koller is a Swiss professor and politician. He served as a member of the Federal Council from 1987 to 1999 for the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP). Koller previously served as a member of the National Council from 1971 to 1986. He did also serve two terms of the as President of the Swiss Confederation in 1990 and 1997. He is primarily known for Lex Koller, a Swiss Federal Act on Acquisitions of Real Estate by Persons Abroad, which he initiated.