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R Hess arrives to aid Nazi machine in election campaign; s; Polish Vice Min of Finance Lechnickl arrives to address Polish population
R Whitney will not be candidate for re-election as pres; reptd to have accepted offer of renomination as member of governing com; denial of renomination to some retiring members of com seen likely
Meets Emperor Kang Teh
R Hamilton captured
1935Douglas Hill, Canadian author and critic (died 2007)[†]
Douglas Arthur Hill was a Canadian science fiction author, editor and reviewer. He was born in Brandon, Manitoba, the son of a railroad engineer, and was raised in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. An avid science fiction reader from an early age, he studied English at the University of Saskatchewan and at the University of Toronto. He married fellow writer and U. of S. alumna Gail Robinson in 1958; they moved to Britain in 1959, where he worked as a freelance writer and editor for Aldus Books. In 1967–1968 he served as assistant editor of the controversial New Worlds science fiction magazine under Michael Moorcock.
1935Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet and playwright (born 1869)[†]
Edwin Arlington Robinson was an American poet and playwright. Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on three occasions and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.