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November 5, 1933

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GOERING AND A RED EXCHANGE TAUNTS IN REICH FIRE CASE; Battle of Invective Terminates With Dimitroff's Forcible Removal From Court. NAZI LASHES COMMUNISTS Says They Set Blaze After He Planned to Annihilate Them -- Would Hang Leaders. GOERING QUARRELS WITH RED AT TRIAL

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Dimitroff readmitted to avoid charges he had been excluded to save Goering from questioning; Goering denies he ordered burning; clashes with Dimitroff

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WOODCOCK TRACES DRY LAW FAILURE; Director Says Most of Trouble Was in the East, Especially in This City and New Jersey. HAMPERED BY POLITICS Tells of Shock of Being Invited Into a Cordial Shop by New York Proprietor. WOODCOCK TRACES DRY LAW FAILURE

By Amos W. W. Woodcock

If I am asked why prohibition failed I can best answer not categorically but by pointing first to outstanding difficulties encountered in enforcing the law. Since most of our trouble was in the East, with New York City and New Jersey the glaring examples, it was natural for that section to provide notable reasons for our failure there as well as elsewhere.

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Sitamore Is Recaptured.

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H Sitamore, who escaped from farm, recaptured

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THE BARD PAYS A VISIT TO LONDON

By A. V. COOKMAN

LONDON, Oct. 20. TO re-create the creator of Hamlet, to draw from the fragmentary story of Stratford and London the sort of man Shakespeare's contemporaries might be supposed to recognize and yet a man not unfitted to wear the glorious garments woven for him by posterity -- this is the very ecstasy of ambition in a dramatist.

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65-Cent Hair-Cut Causes San Francisco Revolt; Special Correspondence, THE NEW YORK TIMES.

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1933Herb Edelman, American actor (died 1996)^[†]

Herbert "Herb" Edelman was an American comedian, and actor of stage, film and television. He was twice nominated for an Emmy Award for his television work. His best-known role was as Stanley Zbornak, the ex-husband of Dorothy Zbornak on The Golden Girls. He also had a recurring role on the 1980s medical drama St. Elsewhere.

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1933Texas Guinan, American actress and businesswoman (born 1884)^[†]

Mary Louise Cecilia "Texas" Guinan was an American actress, producer, and entrepreneur. Born in Texas to Canadian immigrant parents, Guinan decided at an early age to become an entertainer. After becoming a star on the New York stage, the repercussions of her involvement in a weight loss scam motivated her to switch careers to the film business. Spending several years in California appearing in numerous productions, she eventually formed her own company.

1933Walther von Dyck, German mathematician and academic (born 1856)^[†]

Walther Franz Anton von Dyck, born Dyck and later ennobled, was a German mathematician. He is credited with being the first to define a mathematical group, in the modern sense in. He laid the foundations of combinatorial group theory, being the first to systematically study a group by generators and relations.

Headlines from November 5, 1933

GOERING AND A RED EXCHANGE TAUNTS IN REICH FIRE CASE; Battle of Invective Terminates With Dimitroff's Forcible Removal From Court. NAZI LASHES COMMUNISTS Says They Set Blaze After He Planned to Annihilate Them -- Would Hang Leaders. GOERING QUARRELS WITH RED AT TRIAL

WOODCOCK TRACES DRY LAW FAILURE; Director Says Most of Trouble Was in the East, Especially in This City and New Jersey. HAMPERED BY POLITICS Tells of Shock of Being Invited Into a Cordial Shop by New York Proprietor. WOODCOCK TRACES DRY LAW FAILURE

Sitamore Is Recaptured.

THE BARD PAYS A VISIT TO LONDON

65-Cent Hair-Cut Causes San Francisco Revolt; Special Correspondence, THE NEW YORK TIMES.

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