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1935David Hackett Fischer, American historian, author, and academic[†]
David Hackett Fischer is University Professor of History Emeritus at Brandeis University. Fischer's major works have covered topics ranging from large macroeconomic and cultural trends to narrative histories of significant events to explorations of historiography.
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Japan hears projected visit of Nanking's War Min, Ho Ying-ching, to Peiping has temporarily checked autonomy movement in North China; believed Japanese Amb Ariyosha will exert pressure in 2d int with Gen Chiang Kai-shek; Japanese Army authorities demand troop trains, locomotives and coal; continue seizure of Chinese-owned land for conversion into airfields; Peiping indignant over Japanese treatment of Dr Monlin Chiang; 2 Japanese advocates of North China autonomy slain by Chinese villagers near Tientsin
Japan hears projected visit of Nanking's War Min, Ho Ying-ching, to Peiping has temporarily checked autonomy movement; believed Japanese Amb Ariyoshi will exert pressure at 2d int with Gen Chiang Kais-hek; anti-autonomy leaders of North China dismayed at Ho's delay; 2 Japanese advocates of North China autonomy slain by Chinese villagers east of Tientsin; rumors of plans for administrative reform in North China provinces
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Arrested in France for attempting to hold forbidden pol meeting
Amer Fed of Musicians, Local 802, orders strike of WPA musicians in NY C; fear expressed that admission fees and non-union wages for relief projects will undermine jobs of regular musicians
LaGuardia to ask Estimate Bd's authorization on drawing up definitive plan
dispatch on probable Franco-Brit peace plan for Italo-Ethiopian war, and oil embargo
Bids on Fed govt Dec security offerings restricted
Middle West Corp, with subsidiaries, registers
Clipper leaves Manila on return flight; Capt E Musick describes flight to Guam
Ill backers to enter his name in State's Repub Pres primary