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Pres Robbins, protests to Roosevelt; offers to carry mail for 30 days and waive payment if fraud is found
F Speicher, "key witness" sought; grand jury investigates $10,000,000 motor contract
Opposes Heimwehr demands for dissolution of parties in Lower Austria
Leader of proposed general strike; Premier Doumergue, in talk with him, urges need for calm
A A Berle repts trust funds in custody of City Chamberlain were invested in securities of State Title & Mortgage Co; favoritism laid to E J Flynn
1934Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet (died 2024)[†]
Fleur Adcock was a New Zealand poet and editor. Of English and Northern Irish ancestry, Adcock lived much of her life in England. She is well-represented in New Zealand poetry anthologies, was awarded an honorary doctorate of literature from Victoria University of Wellington, and was awarded an OBE in 1996 for her contribution to New Zealand literature. In 2008 she was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to literature.