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September 20, 1933
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Headlines from September 20, 1933
New Mexico Votes on Four Issues.
Local option and repeal of bone-dry section of State Constitution voted
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REBUFFS RECEIVED BY INFLATIONISTS; Cotton Men Fail to See Wallace -- Pittman Finds Roosevelt Cool to Free Silver. PROCESS TAX FOES CHIDED Peek Tells a Delegation That They Strike at Heart of Farm Price Raising. REBUFFS RECEIVED BY INFLATIONISTS
Roosevelt cool to Pittman proposal for free silver; cotton men feel rebuffed
M'ANENY IS NAMED TO CONTROLLERSHIP; Gets Leave as Sanitation Head to Direct City's Finances Until January 1. WILL NOT CHANGE FORCE Promises to Open Records to Public -- Joins in Parley With Gov. Lehman. M'ANENY IS NAMED CITY FINANCE HEAD
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Notable Births
1933Dennis Viollet, English footballer and manager (died 1999)[โ ]
Dennis Sydney Viollet was an English footballer who played for Manchester United and Stoke City as well as the England national team. He was famous as one of the Busby Babes and survived the Munich air disaster. After his retirement as player, he became a coach and spent most of his managerial career in the United States for various professional and school teams.
Notable Deaths
1933Annie Besant, English theosophist and activist (born 1847)[โ ]
Annie Besant was an English socialist, theosophist, freemason, women's rights and Home Rule activist, educationist and campaigner for Indian nationalism. She was an ardent supporter of both Irish and Indian self-rule. She became the first female president of the Indian National Congress in 1917.