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bankers suggest payroll and sales tax; reject business, income and fare tax
Yesterday's developments in the Lindbergh kidnapping and murder case were:
Roosevelt orders surveys by Bur of Labor Statistics, Fed Trade Comm and Textile Labor Relations Bd
LaGuardia helps in drive for Seabury by sending Corp Counsel Windeis to convention
U S Govt starts suit to collect funds on deposit to its credit in Bank of N Y and Trust Co; suit begun under Litvinoff-Roosevelt agreement assigning Russian claims to U S
1934Wilford Brimley, American actor (died 2020)[†]
Anthony Wilford Brimley was an American actor. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and working odd jobs in the 1950s, Brimley started working as an extra and stuntman in Western films in the late 1960s. He became an established character actor in the 1970s and 1980s in films such as The China Syndrome (1979), The Thing (1982), Tender Mercies (1983), The Natural (1984), and Cocoon (1985). Brimley was known for playing characters at times much older than his age. He was the long-term face of American television advertisements for the Quaker Oats Company. He also promoted diabetes education and appeared in related television commercials for Liberty Medical, a role for which he became an Internet meme.
1934Claude Jarman, Jr., American actor and producer (died 2025)[†]
Claude Miller Jarman Jr. was an American actor. He became a child star with his role as Jody Baxter in The Yearling (1946), for which he won an Academy Juvenile Award. Further roles in films like Intruder in the Dust (1949) and Rio Grande (1950) followed. Jarman largely retired from acting in early adulthood and later served as executive director of the San Francisco International Film Festival, and director of Cultural Affairs for the City of San Francisco.
1934Dick Schaap, American sportscaster and author (died 2001)[†]
Richard Jay Schaap was an American sportswriter, broadcaster, and author.
1934Ellen Willmott, English horticulturalist (born 1858)[†]
Ellen Ann Willmott was an English horticulturist. She was an influential member of the Royal Horticultural Society, and a recipient of the first Victoria Medal of Honour, awarded to British horticulturists living in the UK by the society, in 1897. Willmott was said to have cultivated more than 100,000 species and cultivars of plants and sponsored expeditions to discover new species. Inherited wealth allowed Willmott to buy large gardens in France and Italy to add to the garden at her home, Warley Place in Essex. More than 60 plants have been named after her or her home, Warley Place.