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February 28, 1936

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Headlines from February 28, 1936

Tiniest Body in Sky Is Listed as Asteroid By Dr. Shapley, Who Traces Its Odd Path

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

listed as asteroid

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NEW DEAL ASSAILED BEFORE FIRST LADY; Mrs. Roosevelt Listens Calmly as Mrs. Eugene Meyer Attacks Policies at Forum Here. TALK BOOED AND CHEERED ' God Help America' Under Its Present Rule, 1,500 Are Told -- Youth Problems Studied. NEWDEAL ASSAILED BEFORE FIRST LADY

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Assails NYA and WPA before Mrs F D Roosevelt, at League for Pol Educ symposium; pors

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Generals Urge Submission.; THE JAPANESE DIET BUILDING NOW OCCUPIED BY THE REBELS. JAPANESE REBELS HOLD ON IN TOKYO

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

TOKYO, Friday, Feb. 28. -- Efforts to induce the military insurgents, in whose revolt four great leaders have been slain, to submit peacefully had not met with success early this morning.

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By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

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REBELS HOLD POSTS IN TOKYO; MORE TROOPS MOVE TO CITY; ALL NIGHT TALK ON CABINET; INSURGENTS WON'T YIELD Army Chiefs Try in Vain to Get Them to Go to Their Barracks. HUGE FORCE AROUND THEM Emperor Is Said to Sanction Force Against Mutineers Unless They Withdraw. MONEY BEING POURED OUT Bank of Japan Steadied and Large Loans Are Made to Public -- Movies Reopen.

By Hugh Byas.wireless To the New York Times

Gen Araki reptd to have established mil dictatorship

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1936Charles Nicolle, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1866)^[†]

Charles Jules Henri Nicolle was a French bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus.

Headlines from February 28, 1936

Tiniest Body in Sky Is Listed as Asteroid By Dr. Shapley, Who Traces Its Odd Path

NEW DEAL ASSAILED BEFORE FIRST LADY; Mrs. Roosevelt Listens Calmly as Mrs. Eugene Meyer Attacks Policies at Forum Here. TALK BOOED AND CHEERED ' God Help America' Under Its Present Rule, 1,500 Are Told -- Youth Problems Studied. NEWDEAL ASSAILED BEFORE FIRST LADY

Generals Urge Submission.; THE JAPANESE DIET BUILDING NOW OCCUPIED BY THE REBELS. JAPANESE REBELS HOLD ON IN TOKYO

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