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SEC studies defaulted bonds of Repub of El Salvador to get data for use in drafting amendments to Securities Exch Act
Assailed by Union League Club as imperiling freedom
ROME, Oct. 10. -- It may be doubted whether Italians were really convinced of the inevitability of sanctions until today.
Administrators for $27,000,000 WPA fund announced
s at League Assembly meeting which condemned Italy as aggressor
1935Dan Evins, American businessman, founded Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (died 2012)[†]
Danny Wood Evins was an American entrepreneur and founder of Cracker Barrel, a Southern-themed restaurant chain.
1935Daniel Quinn, American author and environmentalist (died 2018)[†]
Daniel Clarence Quinn was an American author, cultural critic, and publisher of educational texts, best known for his novel Ishmael, which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991 and was published the following year. Quinn's ideas are popularly associated with environmentalism, though he criticized this term for portraying the environment as separate from human life, thus creating a false dichotomy, and the environmental movement as misguided and ultimately ineffective. Instead, Quinn referred to his philosophy as "new tribalism".
1935Steele Rudd, Australian author (born 1868)[†]
Steele Rudd was the pen name of Arthur Hoey Davis an Australian author, best known for his short story collection On Our Selection which as been described "at one stage – specifically the first half of the 20th century – it was the most flop-proof piece of IP in Australian entertainment."