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Cat bites 6 at party given by Mrs F Sweeney
H F Sinclair, in testimony, refers to Rockefellers as responsible for 2 1/2% payment from Sinclair Consol common stock syndicate to W S Fitzpatrick; calls inquiry joke, but retracts
Apptmt by Roosevelt of J J Hoey to revenue post seen as possible manoeuvre for Roosevelt-Smith alliance for Curry's displacement as leader of Tammany Hall
will put desk in City Hall lobby
2 large cruisers replace 4 small in 1933 construction program; statement by Sir B M E Monsell
1933Gloria Foster, American actress (died 2001)[†]
Gloria Foster was an American actress. She had acclaimed roles in plays In White America and Having Our Say, winning three Obie Awards during her career. Foster played the Oracle in The Matrix (1999) and its first sequel, The Matrix Reloaded (2003). She played the role of the mother of Yusef Bell in the miniseries The Atlanta Child Murders which aired in 1985.
1933Theodore Roszak, American scholar and author (died 2011)[†]
Theodore Roszak was an American academic and novelist who concluded his academic career as Professor Emeritus of history at California State University, East Bay. He is best known for his 1969 text The Making of a Counter Culture.
1933Thailand holds its first election.[†]
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically Siam until 1939, is a country in Southeast Asia, located on the Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spans 513,115 square kilometres (198,115 sq mi). Thailand is bordered to the northwest by Myanmar, to the northeast and east by Laos, to the southeast by Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the southwest by the Andaman Sea; it also shares maritime borders with Vietnam to the southeast and Indonesia and India to the southwest. Bangkok is the state capital and largest city.