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March 11, 1934

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1934Sam Donaldson, American journalist^[†]

Samuel Andrew Donaldson Jr. is an American retired television reporter and news anchor. He broadcast with ABC News from 1967 to 2009. He was well known as the White House Correspondent with a booming loud voice, which could get the attention of President Reagan, amazingly cutting through the noise of whirling helicopter blades. He was a panelist and co-anchor of Sunday's This Week on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC).

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MAIL FLIERS AWAIT FLIGHT CUT ORDERS; Storm Grounds Planes Here -Pilot Forced Down in Pennsylvania Reaches Newark. WIENECKE'S BODY ARRIVES Aeronautical Chamber Shows European Postal Cost Is Double That in America. MAIL FLIERS AWAIT FLIGHT CUT ORDERS

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Nickerson, Hoffman; Can We Limit War?

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PRESIDENT ORDERS THE ARMY TO FLY MAIL ONLY ON ROUTES THAT DON'T IMPERIL FLIERS; SAYS DEATHS MUST STOP Ratio of Accidents 'Far Too High' in Service, He Writes to Dern. SPEED ASKED ON NEW BILL Army Rushes Curtailment Plan -- Officers Defend Record on Mail Carrying. MOVE PRAISED IN CAPITAL But Some Republicans Feel Roosevelt Should Have Suspended Operations Entirely. PRESIDENT ORDERS AIR MAIL CURTAILED

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

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TENNES WINS AGAIN IN OUTBOARD SERIES AS 15,000 LOOK ON; Chicagoan's Victory at Palm Beach His Third in International Racing. TWO AMERICANS FOLLOW Everett and Ellsworth Give United States Sweep of First Three Places. ONLY 5 OUT OF 11 FINISH Turner and Oldenburg Fourth and Fifth as Rough Water Halts Others. TENNES IS VICTOR IN OUTBOARD RACE

By James Robbins.special To the New York Times.by James Robbins

PALM BEACH, Fla., March 10. -- Bruised and painfully sore from the thrashing of his frail, pounding shell of a boat over ten miles of rough water, Horace Tennes came through again today to win the fourth of the international outboard races.

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BUSINESS OF ARMAMENT MAKING LARGE PROGRESS; Many Nations Adding to Their Defense Forces as Disarmament Hopes Fade at Geneva GERMANY'S AIMS BIG PROBLEM Refusal of Hitler to Count 2,500,000 Nazi Groups in Military Estimate Brings Deadlock in Talks With Paris.

By Edwin L. James

Increased armaments in world result from failure of disarmament efforts

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REPORTERS DEPICT 'KING' CURRY'S FALL; Inner Circle Show Portrays the Invasion of Tammany Palace and Accession of 'Fiorello.' 1,000 SEE PERFORMANCE Prominent Guests Hear Their Foibles Satirized in Song and Black-Out Skits. REPORTERS DEPICT 'KINGS CURRY'S FALL

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Annual stunt dinner

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OXFORD TRACKMEN DOWN CAMBRIDGE; Lovelock Runs Dead Heat in Mile in 4:23.3 as His Team Wins 66th Annual Meet. OXFORD TRACKMEN DOWN CAMBRIDGE

By the Associated Press

Oxford defeats Cambridge in annual intervarsity meet; 3 U S coll stars contribute to Oxford victory

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' Ambergris' at Bolinas Merely Sewer Cleaner

By Special Correspondence, THE NEW YORK TIMES

chemists say it is merely sewer cleaner

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Hungarians Want a King But Will Not Risk a War; Gibbs Says They Favor Otto, but Not as Emperor, in Union With Austria -- Realize They Can't Get Revision by Heroic Adventure. HUNGARIANS WANT KING BUT NOT WAR

By Sir Philip Gibbs.copyright, 1934, By the New York Times Company and Nana, Inc. World Rights Reserved.wireless To the New York Times.by Sir Philip Gibbs

BUDAPEST, March 10. -- The Hungarian people are still living on the home that somehow and at some time they may regain their ancient place in Europe, their 2,000,000 kinsfolk who are now cut off from them and a king of their own to wear the iron crown of St. Stephen.

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THE WAYS OF THREE DICTATORS; Stalin Lives in Seclusion, Giving the Impression of Hidden Power; Hitler Keeps in Close Touch With All Parts of His Realm; Mussolini Labors Steadily to Consolidate the Fascist Regime STALIN

By Walter Durantymoscow

Feature article on him as dictator, and on his private life; pors

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REPUBLICAN PLANS SET IN BAY STATE; Delegates From All Parts of Massachusetts Draft a Platform. IS PRE-CONVENTION ACT Planks Show Trend of Political Thought -- Party Has 'Gone Karl Marx.' REPUBLICAN PLANS SET IN BAY STATE

By F. Lauriston Bullard.editorial Correspondence, the New York Times.by F. Lauriston Bullard

BOSTON, March 8. -- Under the auspices of the Republican Club of Massachusetts at an all-day meeting in Faneuil Hall some 500 delegates from every part of the State have adopted a platform of twenty planks for the coming campaign in which there will be elected a Governor, a full ticket of State officers, a United States Senator and fifteen members of the House of Representatives.

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THE PREFACE FOR "YELLOW JACK"; NOTES FROM THE PREFACE TO "YELLOW JACK"

By Sidney Howard

TO my lay mind, the things men of science do and how they do them, even when they far outreach my understanding, exceed any other activity of modern life for the drama which is in them. That which is of itself dramatic should furnish material for a theatre so sorely in need of any alternative to the repetitions of love and crime.

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ATHLETICS' BATS ROUT GIANTS, 7-2; Mackmen Tie Series as They Pound Salveson in First and Smith in Fifth.

By John Drebinger

MIAMI BEACH, Fla., March 10. -- The winning touch of Memphis Bill Terry's Giants deserted the world's champions on all fronts today as the Athletics, on the crest of a stiff ocean breeze, rode roughshod over them, 7 to 2. That squared the opening exhibition series at one victory apiece.

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