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September 12, 1934

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Headlines from September 12, 1934

Graf Zeppelin a Visitor At French Army Games

By the Associated Press

Manoeuvres, Besancon; Graf Zeppelin flies over games

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FOREIGN PROTESTS FAIL TO MODERATE MUNITIONS INQUIRY; Hull in 'Full Sympathy' With It Despite Testimony Involving High Officials Abroad. A PRESIDENT IS NAMED Curtiss-Wright Letter Said Rodriguez of Mexico Might 'Favor' a Plant There. RODRIGUEZ NAMED IN ARMS INQUIRY

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Inquiry gets evidence of negotiations by Curtiss-Wright Export Co with Paraguay, Bolivia and Mex on airplanes; Pres Rodriguez mentioned

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LOUISIANA GIVES LONG A BIG MARGIN IN PRIMARY VOTE; Eight States Choose Candidates -- Blease Is Defeated in South Carolina.

By F. Raymond Daniell

NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 11. -- United States Senator Huey P. Long appeared tonight to have won the most spectacular battle of his political career. Unofficial but apparently accurate returns from today's unprecedentedly peaceful primary election indicated that all four of the candidates who enjoyed his backing in New Orleans were as good as elected to the offices they are seeking.

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REICH TO CONTROL ALL FOREIGN TRADE; Dr. Schacht Sets Up Licensing System to Balance Nation's Imports and Exports. U.S. CONCERNS TO SUFFER Consignment Deals Impossible -- Berlin Pitting Buying Power Against World's Hostility. REICH TO CONTROL ALL FOREIGN TRADE

By Otto D. Tolischus.wireless To the New York Times.by Otto D. Tolischus

plan announced

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BOY TELLS OF SHOT FIRED IN SHIP PANIC; Also Asserts He Saw 'Officer' With a Pistol in His Hand Near Fallen Sailor. WILL TESTIFY AT INQUIRY Warms Declares No Weapons Were Used -- Seaman Tells of Fearing Bullet. BOY TELLS OF SHOT FIRED IN SHIP PANIC

By Unknown Author

L Perrine's rept that shot was fired by an officer during panic denied by Warms

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1934Glenn Davis, American hurdler, sprinter, and football player (died 2009)^[†]

Glenn Ashby "Jeep" Davis was an American Olympic hurdler and sprinter who won a total of three gold medals in the 1956 and 1960 Olympic games.

1934Jaegwon Kim, South Korean-American philosopher and academic (died 2019)^[†]

Jaegwon Kim was a Korean-American philosopher. At the time of his death, Kim was an emeritus professor of philosophy at Brown University. He also taught at several other leading American universities during his lifetime, including the University of Michigan, Cornell University, the University of Notre Dame, Johns Hopkins University, and Swarthmore College. He is best known for his work on mental causation, the mind-body problem and the metaphysics of supervenience and events. Key themes in his work include: a rejection of Cartesian metaphysics, the limitations of strict psychophysical identity, supervenience, and the individuation of events. Kim's work on these and other contemporary metaphysical and epistemological issues is well represented by the papers collected in Supervenience and Mind: Selected Philosophical Essays (1993).

1934Nellie Wong, Chinese American poet and activist^[†]

Nellie Wong is an American poet and activist for feminist and socialist causes. Wong is also an active member of the Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women.

Headlines from September 12, 1934

Graf Zeppelin a Visitor At French Army Games

FOREIGN PROTESTS FAIL TO MODERATE MUNITIONS INQUIRY; Hull in 'Full Sympathy' With It Despite Testimony Involving High Officials Abroad. A PRESIDENT IS NAMED Curtiss-Wright Letter Said Rodriguez of Mexico Might 'Favor' a Plant There. RODRIGUEZ NAMED IN ARMS INQUIRY

LOUISIANA GIVES LONG A BIG MARGIN IN PRIMARY VOTE; Eight States Choose Candidates -- Blease Is Defeated in South Carolina.

REICH TO CONTROL ALL FOREIGN TRADE; Dr. Schacht Sets Up Licensing System to Balance Nation's Imports and Exports. U.S. CONCERNS TO SUFFER Consignment Deals Impossible -- Berlin Pitting Buying Power Against World's Hostility. REICH TO CONTROL ALL FOREIGN TRADE

BOY TELLS OF SHOT FIRED IN SHIP PANIC; Also Asserts He Saw 'Officer' With a Pistol in His Hand Near Fallen Sailor. WILL TESTIFY AT INQUIRY Warms Declares No Weapons Were Used -- Seaman Tells of Fearing Bullet. BOY TELLS OF SHOT FIRED IN SHIP PANIC

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