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F J Gorman on labor's dissatisfaction with codes, s on NRA criticism hearings
Mayor orders investigation into snow-removal graft; Col De Lamater says CWA men worked at shoveling without reporting to Sanitation Dept
Empress Peng Chi (Yueh Hua) takes imperial place beside husband during civil ceremony of accepting throne; arranges reception for wives of dignitaries; Kang Teh begins year of construction
Mayor LaGuardia raids his home; vice charges suspected; no sign of law evasion found
1934Howard Cassady, American football player (died 2019)[†]
Howard Albert "Hopalong" Cassady was an American professional football halfback and split end who played in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes, where he won the Heisman Trophy in 1955. Cassady played in the NFL for eight seasons, seven of them for the Detroit Lions, with whom he won the 1957 NFL Championship Game. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1979.
1934Dottie Rambo, American singer-songwriter (died 2008)[†]
Dottie Rambo was an American gospel singer and songwriter. She was a Grammy winning solo artist and multiple Dove Award-winning artist. Along with ex-husband Buck and daughter Reba, she formed the award-winning southern Gospel group, The Rambos. She wrote more than 2,500 songs, including her most notable, "The Holy Hills of Heaven Call Me", "He Looked Beyond My Fault and Saw My Need", "We Shall Behold Him", and "I Go To the Rock".