James Merrill Jeffords was an American lawyer and politician from Vermont. Originally a Republican, he served as a member of the Vermont Senate from 1967 to 1969 and Vermont Attorney General 1969 to 1973. He lost the 1972 Republican primary for governor of Vermont, but in 1974 he won Vermont's at-large seat in the United States House of Representatives. He served in the US House from 1975 to 1989, and in 1988 won election to the United States Senate. In 2001, Jeffords left the Republican Party to become an independent and began caucusing with the senate's Democrats. Jeffords served in the Senate from 1989 until 2007.

1934Jack Twyman, American basketball player (died 2012)^[†]

John Kennedy Twyman was an American professional basketball player and sports broadcaster. Twyman is a namesake of the NBA's Twyman–Stokes Teammate of the Year Award. Twyman was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1983.

Headlines from May 11, 1934

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WHEAT FORECAST DIPS 170,000,000 BU. UNDER AVERAGE; Report Sets 461,471,000 Bu. for Winter Crop, Drop of 30,000,000 in Month. PRICE SOARS THE 5C LIMIT Heavy Dust Storms Sweep the West as New Menace to Parched Fields. WHEAT FORECAST TAKES HUGE DROP

CRIMINAL ROUND-UP IS BEGUN BY POLICE; Drive Marks First Organized Reprisal for Killings of 3 Members of Force. PICKED SQUAD ASSIGNED O'Ryan Also Orders All Men on Duty to Cooperate--Many Suspects Are Seized. CRIMINAL ROUND-UP IS BEGUN BY POLICE

Kantor, 3 Aides Guilty of Election Fraud; Judge Hails Verdict as 'Breath of Fresh Air'

Five Japanese Are Slain, 16 Wounded in Brazil

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