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LaGuardia pledges no cut in civil-service salaries
Apptmt of J F Sullivan as McKee's campaign mgr for Queens rescinded following publication of old indictment
R O Hayward testifies that Sen McAdoo, as counsel, aided firm in removing legal bar to floating Rio de Janeiro issue; C Dillon testifies most of losses of U S & Foreign Securities Corp and U S & Internatl Securities Corp came from investments in cos in which directors were interested
4th Liberties called; bond issue, exchangeable for 4th Liberties, announced; statement by Sec Woodin
1933Guido Molinari, Canadian painter and art collector (died 2004)[†]
Guido Molinari L.L. D. was a Canadian artist, known nationally and internationally for his serial abstract paintings and their dynamic interplay of colours and focus on modular shapes. His Stripe series is especially celebrated. Molinari himself described their effect - and the effect of all his paintings - as creating a new kind of fictional space "because it happens in the mind and yet also involves the totality of perception".
1933John Lister, English philanthropist and politician (born 1847)[†]
John Lister was an English philanthropist and politician.
1933The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.[†]
Fort Alcatraz was a United States Army coastal fortification on Alcatraz Island near the mouth of San Francisco Bay in California, part of the Third System of fixed fortifications, although very different from most other Third System works. Initially completed in 1859, it was also used for mustering and training recruits and new units for the Civil War from 1861 and began secondary use as a long-term military prison in 1868.