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France reserved on overtures; fear she would have to concede everything; world urges action
Mob lynches T H Thurmond and J Holmes, confessed kidnappers of B L Hart, San Jose
LAS PALMAS, Canary Islands, Nov. 26 (AP) -- Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh lifted their big seaplane from the harbor at 7:45 A.M., today, circled the city three times, and headed across 300 miles of ocean for Villa Cisneros.
Warns U S that Army is "below the danger line,"
Scherwin, A, slain, wife wounded; gunman escapes in auto
1933Jacques Godbout, Canadian journalist, author, director, and screenwriter[†]
Jacques Godbout, OC, CQ is a Canadian novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, filmmaker and poet. By his own admission a bit of a dabbler (touche-à-tout), Godbout has become one of the most important writers of his generation, with a major influence on post-1960 Quebec intellectual life.
1933Gordon S. Wood, American historian and academic[†]
Gordon Stewart Wood is an American historian and professor at Brown University. He is a recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992). His book The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 (1969) won the 1970 Bancroft Prize. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.