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1936Virginia Hamilton, American children's books author (died 2002)[†]
Virginia Esther Hamilton was an American children's books author. She wrote 41 books, including M. C. Higgins, the Great (1974), for which she won the U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the Newbery Medal in 1975. Her works were celebrated for exploring the African-American experience, what she called "Liberation Literature."
1936Michał Heller, Polish professor of philosophy[†]
Michał Kazimierz Heller, also known as Michael Heller, is a Polish philosopher, theoretical physicist, cosmologist, theologian, and Catholic priest. He is a professor of philosophy at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków, Poland, and an adjunct member of the Vatican Observatory staff.
1936Eddie Sutton, American basketball player and coach (died 2020)[†]
Edward Eugene Sutton was an American college basketball coach. A native of Bucklin, Kansas, Sutton played college basketball at Oklahoma A&M and was a head coach at the high school, junior college, and college levels spanning six decades.
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Mayor optimistic as negotiations are resumed; reinstatement of strikers disputed; R Bruere and A A Berle Jr act as mediators; Merritt proposal for extension of 1934 agreement discussed; Mayor questions Merritt on willingness to arbitrate; Realty Bd accepts proposal to proceed with selection of arbitrator; union offers reward for arrest and conviction of strike-breakers for assault and robbery
Chief Justice Hughes asks F H Wood, lawyer arguing against act, to lower voice
explains case in Parliament; held to be valuable ally to French Foreign Min Flandin in forthcoming London talks
Chief Justice Wheat, D C Sup Ct, bars seizure of Winston, Strawn & Shaw telegrams on blanket subpoena as violation of 4th Amendment on "search and seizure"; Black threatens reprisals; Shouse questions him on Liberty League payments for telegrams; H S Magill, pres of Amer Fed of Investors, praises ruling
House stirred by exchange of epithets with Repr Ekwall
Brit House of Lords debates motion to revise covenant by removing provision guaranteeing territorial integrity of member States and discarding obligation to enforce sanctions
Balkan and Little Ententes support Franco's demand for evacuation of Rhineland before parleys with Germany, at meeting of permanent League delegates of Entente countries; League Council divided on issue between Brit and French positions; France seeks to expand air fleet, takes measures to organize nation on emergency wartime basis; Gen Maurin comments on mil measures already taken
Bank accounts subpoenaed in connection with S Drukman inquiry
Appropriation bill passes Sen