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August 31, 1933
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Headlines from August 31, 1933
Lads After 31 Hours on 2-Foot Adirondack Niche Are Hauled Up, Little the Worse for Ordeal.; THREE BOYS SAVED ON PERILOUS LEDGE
3 Boy Scouts, R Glenn, T Grey and W Ladue, rescued after spending 31 hrs on ledge
Johnson Returns to Capital.; ROOSEVELT ASKS AUTO CODE STATUS
Roosevelt concerned over failure to join NRA
U.S. Corporal Gets Two Years as Red Spy; $10,000 Fine May Extend Term to 20 Years
he is found guilty of violating Espionage Act and sentenced to 2 yrs' hard labor with fine of $10,000; admits link with Communists
BUSES TO REPLACE TROLLEYS ON LINES COVERING 98 MILES; City Votes Motorization of 128 Route Miles in Manhattan in Eighteen Months.
Estimate Bd reaches agreement with N Y Rys Co, 4th & Madison Aves Co and Comprehensive Omnibus Corp for motorization of 98 miles of trolley routes in Manhattan; details; map
Historical Events
1933The Integral Nationalist Group wins the 1933 Andorran parliamentary election, the first election in Andorra held with universal male suffrage.[โ ]
Parliamentary elections were held in Andorra on 31 August 1933, the first held under universal male suffrage. The extension of the franchise to all men over 21 followed social unrest referred to as the Andorran Revolution. As political parties were not legalised until 1993, all candidates ran as independents.