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November 3, 1933

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Headlines from November 3, 1933

M'KEE LISTS 'DEADLY SINS'; Says Tammany Is Ally of Crime, Corruption and Inhumanity. LAGUARDIA A 'DEMAGOGUE' Election Would Mean Era of 'Confusion and Theatrics,' Recovery Candidate Says. FARLEY PLEDGES SUPPORT Speaks as Voter in the Best Interests of City -- Straus Lists 12-Point Program. M'KEE WINDS UP DRIVE IN BROOKLYN

By Unknown Author

Waste, greed, corruption, crime, inhumanity, demagogy and confusion were named last night by Joseph V. McKee, Recovery party nominee for Mayor, as the "seven deadly, vicious enemies of good government."

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SINCLAIR IS CALLED WITH A.W. CUTTEN ON OIL STOCK POOL; $30,000,000 Group Trading in Sinclair Common Made $11,702,056 in 1929. WIGGIN FAMILY PROFITED Banker Tells How He and Dahl 'Unloaded' B.M.T. Stock Before Dividend Was Passed. SINCLAIR IS CALLED ON OIL STOCK POOL

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Wiggin continues testimony; reference to Sinclair Consol Oil Corp syndicate causes H F Sinclair and A W Cutten to be subpoenaed; Wiggin describes "unloading" of B M T Stock by himself and G M Dahl; gives data on income of himself and family and taxes paid by them, 1928-32

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Notable Births

John Barry (composer)

1933John Barry, English-American composer and conductor (died 2011)[†]

John Barry Prendergast was an English composer and conductor of film music. Born in York, Barry spent his early years working in cinemas owned by his father. During his national service with the British Army in Cyprus, Barry began performing as a musician after learning to play the trumpet. Upon completing his national service, he formed a band in 1957, the John Barry Seven. He later developed an interest in composing and arranging music, making his début for television in 1958. He came to the notice of the filmmakers of the first James Bond film Dr. No, who were dissatisfied with a theme for James Bond given to them by Monty Norman. Noel Rogers, the head of music at United Artists, approached Barry. This started a successful association between Barry and the Bond series that lasted for 25 years.

Ken Berry

1933Ken Berry, American actor, singer, and dancer (died 2018)[†]

Kenneth Ronald Berry was an American actor, comedian, dancer, and singer. Berry starred on the television series F Troop (1965–1967), Mayberry R.F.D. (1968–1971) and Mama's Family (1983–1990). He also appeared on Broadway in The Billy Barnes Revue, headlined as George M. Cohan in the musical George M! and provided comic relief for the medical drama Dr. Kildare with Richard Chamberlain in the 1960s.

Jeremy Brett

1933Jeremy Brett, English actor (died 1995)[†]

Peter Jeremy William Huggins, known professionally as Jeremy Brett, was an English actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes from 1984 to 1994 in 41 episodes of a Granada TV series. He also played the smitten Freddy Eynsford-Hill in the 1964 Warner Bros. production of My Fair Lady. His career spanned stage, television and film, to Shakespeare and musical theatre.

Aneta Corsaut

1933Aneta Corsaut, American actress (died 1995)[†]

Aneta Louise Corsaut was an American actress and writer. She is best known for playing Helen Crump on The Andy Griffith Show (1963–1968), Judge Cynthia Justin on Matlock (1991–1992), and Jane in The Blob (1958).

Michael Dukakis

1933Michael Dukakis, American lawyer, academic, and politician, 65th Governor of Massachusetts[†]

Michael Stanley Dukakis is an American politician and lawyer who was governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1991. He is the longest-serving governor in Massachusetts history and only the second Greek-American governor in U.S. history, after Spiro Agnew. He was nominated by the Democratic Party for president in the 1988 election, losing to the Republican nominee, Vice President George H. W. Bush.

Amartya Sen

1933Amartya Sen, Indian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[†]

Amartya Kumar Sen is an Indian economist and philosopher. Sen has taught and worked in England and the United States since 1972. In 1998, Sen received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics. He has also made major scholarly contributions to social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, decision theory, development economics, public health, and the measures of well-being of countries.

Notable Deaths

Émile Roux

1933Pierre Paul Émile Roux, French physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist (born 1853)[†]

Pierre Paul Émile Roux FRS was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist. Roux was one of the closest collaborators of Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), a co-founder of the Pasteur Institute, and responsible for the institute's production of the anti-diphtheria serum, the first effective therapy for this disease. Additionally, he investigated cholera, chicken-cholera, rabies, and tuberculosis. Roux is regarded as a founder of the field of immunology.