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1934Bob Bogle, American rock guitarist and bass player (died 2009)[†]
Robert Lenard Bogle was an American musician who was a founding member of the instrumental rock band the Ventures. He and Don Wilson founded the group in 1958. Bogle was the lead guitarist and later bassist of the group. In 2008, Bogle and other members of the Ventures were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Performer category.
1934Marilyn Horne, American soprano and actress[†]
Marilyn Berneice Horne is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer. She specialized in roles requiring beauty of tone, excellent breath support, and the ability to execute difficult coloratura passages. She is a recipient of the National Medal of Arts and the Kennedy Center Honors, and has won four Grammy Awards.
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On Roosevelt's permanent monetary policy; holds plan is for a managed currency and not "commodity" dollar
Wall Street responded yesterday to the news of the President's stabilization program with a burst of speculative enthusiasm. While the dollar fell 2.40 cents in the foreign exchange market to 61.36 per cent of parity, compared with the upper limit of 60 per cent fixed in the President's program, stocks, bonds and commodities engaged in the broadest and most active advance in months.
Brit press comment on Roosevelt's monetary message
Killed in plane crash
ALBANY, Jan. 15. -- Major recommendations and estimates of Governor Lehman's budget message to the Legislature tonight were as follows:
Van Schaick, at Moreland inquiry, says lack of examiners hampered Ins Dept; A A Cook, counsel to Alger, denies prospective "white-washing,"
Sec Ickes bars further grants until he is assured of proper handling, calls for accounting; Authority asks for writ to bar LaGuardia from hearing charge against O'Leary
Impending clash with A Guiteras, Sec of Interior, War and Navy
Developments in the monetary situation yesterday were as follows:
asks that Treas be given title to all monetary gold in country including stocks of Fed Reserve Banks