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December 19, 1933
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Headlines from December 19, 1933
SENATORS SUPPORT WOMEN IN PROTEST; Fess, Hastings and Walcott Join in Asking Hull to Sign Montevideo Pact. VOTERS' LEAGUE OPPOSED Takes Position Equal Nation- ality Rights Are Best Achieved by Domestic Legislation. SENATORS SUPPORT WOMEN IN PROTEST
Asks Sec Hull to sign women's rights treaty
O'DUFFY WINS WRIT IN BLUE SHIRT CASE; Appears in Court Tomorrow on Habeas Corpus -- Will Be Shifted to Dublin Prison. DE VALERA PAPERS TORN Opposition Leader in Role of Heroic Under-Dog Gives the Government Some Worry. O'DUFFY WINS WRIT IN BLUE SHIRT CASE
O'Duffy and supporters, Capt Kilcoyne and J O'Sullivan, win habeas corpus to appear before High Court
NOW OWES $2,233,000,000; Funds Are Almost Gone, Says Jones After Talk With President. ACTION IS UP TO CONGRESS Purchases of Preferred Stocks From 2,443 Banks Reach Total of $627,000,000. INDUSTRIAL AID STUDIED But Chairman Holds That Such a Course Depends on Legislation. RFC SEEKS BILLION FOR CLOSED BANKS
J H Jones says extension of life of Corp and additional funds to aid closed banks are needed; gives figures on buying of preferred stock and capital notes
Prussia Abolishes Voting for All Officials; Other States Are Likely to Centralize Power
Likely to lose identity by centralization of power in Berlin
Notable Births
1933Kevan Gosper, Australian runner and politician (died 2024)[โ ]
Richard Kevan Gosper, AO was an Australian athlete who mainly competed in the 400 metres. He was a Vice President of the International Olympic Committee, and combined chairman and CEO of Shell Australia. Gosper died on 19 July 2024, at the age of 90.
1933Christopher Smout, Scottish historian and academic[โ ]
Thomas Christopher Smout is an English academic, historian, author and Historiographer Royal in Scotland.
Notable Deaths
1933George Jackson Churchward, English engineer and businessman (born 1857)[โ ]
George Jackson Churchward was an English railway engineer, and was chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway (GWR) in the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1922.