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February 22, 1936

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Headlines from February 22, 1936

LONDON 'TIN KING' JAILED FOR A YEAR; Two Others Sentenced With Howeson for Part in Big Pepper-Shellac Gamble.

By Ferdinand Kuhn Jr

Sentenced to jail for misleading prospectus in pepper-shellac gamble

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Malady Hits 2,000 in Ohio City of 10,000;

By the Associated Press

one out of five in city ill; attributed to contaminated water

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GENERAL AMNESTY DECREED IN SPAIN; All the 30,000 'Political and Social' Prisoners Not Yet Free Will Be Released Today. MORE CHURCHES BURNED Death Toll in Leftist Rioting Rises to 27 -- Two Rightist Army Chiefs Demoted. GENERAL AMNESTY DECREED IN SPAIN

By William P. Carney.wireless To the New York Times

all pol prisoners to be freed by general amnesty; Socialist and syndicalist trade union headquarters may be opened; action against the Right and Churches continue

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ROOSEVELT URGES POSTOFFICE REFORM; Wants Civil Service Status for First, Second and Third Class Postmasters. IMPETUS TO LEGISLATION Drive Undertaken by Senator O'Mahoney to Enact His Bill Before Session Closes. ROOSEVELT URGES POSTOFFICE REFORM

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Farley urges re-election of Roosevelt

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FARM BILL PASSED BY HOUSE, 267 TO 97; SCOPE BROADENED; Changes Give to Wallace Wide Power to Fix Benefits Where Senate Had Limited Them. DAIRY CURB VOTED DOWN Parliamentary Tangle Over the Boileau Interpretation of Aims Brings Veto by Leaders. FOR 'NET-INCOME' PARITY Clause Inserted to Protect Consumers -- Measure Goes Back to Senate for Concurrence. FARM BILL PASSED BY HOUSE, 267-97

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

House defeats amendment by Repr Boileau for curb on grazing

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1936J. Michael Bishop, American microbiologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate^[†]

John Michael Bishop is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Harold E. Varmus. He serves as an active faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he also served as chancellor from 1998 to 2009.

Headlines from February 22, 1936

LONDON 'TIN KING' JAILED FOR A YEAR; Two Others Sentenced With Howeson for Part in Big Pepper-Shellac Gamble.

Malady Hits 2,000 in Ohio City of 10,000;

GENERAL AMNESTY DECREED IN SPAIN; All the 30,000 'Political and Social' Prisoners Not Yet Free Will Be Released Today. MORE CHURCHES BURNED Death Toll in Leftist Rioting Rises to 27 -- Two Rightist Army Chiefs Demoted. GENERAL AMNESTY DECREED IN SPAIN

ROOSEVELT URGES POSTOFFICE REFORM; Wants Civil Service Status for First, Second and Third Class Postmasters. IMPETUS TO LEGISLATION Drive Undertaken by Senator O'Mahoney to Enact His Bill Before Session Closes. ROOSEVELT URGES POSTOFFICE REFORM

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