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December 5, 1934

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Headlines from December 5, 1934

DELANEY FIGHTS FARE TAX; STORES URGE IT TODAY AT MAYOR'S FINAL HEARING; LAST SALES LEVY PROTEST La Guardia to Sign the Three Measures for Relief Intact. TRANSIT HEAD GIVES VIEWS Holds Any Impost on Subways Should Go Toward Paying for New Lines. MERCHANTS KEEP UP FIGHT Citizens Group Sees $10,000,000 Budget Deficit -- Predicts 15-Point Tax Rate Rise. DELANEY OPPOSES TAX ON TRANSIT

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J H Delaney opposes transit fare tax for relief, maintaining that such a tax should be for rapid transit development only; LaGuardia expected to sign sales tax bill; Citizens Budget Comm predicts that 1935 budget will show rise in tax rates

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Notable Births

Joan Didion

1934Joan Didion, American novelist and screenwriter (died 2021)[†]

Joan Didion was an American writer and journalist. She is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe.

Historical Events

Abyssinia Crisis

1934Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.[†]

The Abyssinia Crisis, also known in Italy as the Walwal incident, was an international crisis in 1935 that originated in a dispute over the town of Walwal, which then turned into a conflict between the Kingdom of Italy and the Ethiopian Empire. The League of Nations ruled against Italy and voted for economic sanctions, but they were never fully applied. Italy ignored the sanctions, quit the League and ultimately annexed and occupied Abyssinia after it had won the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. The crisis is generally regarded as having discredited the League.