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Exactly five months have elapsed since the present advance in stock prices began, making the longest period of rising prices since the low point of the bear market was established on July 8, 1932. The upward movement from that date lasted until Sept. 8, 1932; the second bull market covered the period from March 2, 1933, to July 18, 1933.
FIRST ARMY HEADQUARTERS, PINE CAMP, N.Y., Aug. 17. -- National Guard troops from eight States were converging by train and truck and taxicab on this 100-square-mile encampment tonight as 36,000 soldiers of the First Army were mobilizing near Watertown for the army's greatest peacetime manoeuvres.
Produces 2 new primroses in heredity experiments
ROBINSON SMITH and Frederick W. Ayer, a new firm which has been waiting in the wings to take its Broadway bow, will enter this Fall with "Parnell," by Elsie Schauffler. The play is the result of two years' research into the life of the great Irish leader, his stormy fight for Home Rule, his politics association with Gladstone, his personal one with Katherine O'Shea.
reprs of 18 unions join Communists in N Y C WPA demonstration; demands
1935Gail Fisher, American actress (died 2000)[†]
Gail Fisher was an American actress who was one of the first black women to play substantive roles in American television. She was best known for playing the role of secretary Peggy Fair on the television detective series Mannix from 1968 through 1975, a role for which she won two Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy Award; she was the first African-American woman to win those prestigious awards. She also won an NAACP Image Award in 1969. In addition to her acting career, Fisher was a successful jazz lyricist.
1935Hifikepunye Pohamba, Namibian lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Namibia[†]
Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba is a Namibian politician who served as the second president of Namibia from 21 March 2005 to 21 March 2015. He won the 2004 presidential election overwhelmingly as the candidate of SWAPO and was reelected in 2009. Pohamba was the president of SWAPO from 2007 until his retirement in 2015. He is a recipient of the Ibrahim Prize.