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30,000 called out; union lists 25 hotels where strike is in progress; hotels claim service is normal in most cases; demonstration at Waldorf-Astoria
Com adopts provision cutting credit allowed to Amer firms on tax payments at home on account of taxes paid to foreign Govts; reprisal taxes voted against subsidiaries in U S of firms whose Govts discriminate against Amer firms in taxation
On bimetallic currency, in Sen debate
Estimate Bd repudiates franchises, orders Corp Counsel Windeis to challenge validity of grants and Comr of Accounts Blanshard to investigate graft rept
Invites Roosevelt to visit Japan
1934Édith Cresson, French politician and diplomat, Prime Minister of France[†]
Édith Jeanne Thérèse Cresson is a French politician of the Socialist Party. She served as Prime Minister of France from 1991 to 1992, the first woman to do so and only woman until Élisabeth Borne's appointment in 2022. Her political career ended in scandal as a result of corruption charges dating from her tenure as European Commissioner for Research, Science and Technology.
1934George Follmer, American race car driver[†]
George Richard Follmer is an American former auto racing driver, and one of the most successful road racers of the 1970s. He was born in Phoenix, Arizona. His family moved to California when he was just an infant.