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In the slowest trading since Dec. 14, share prices fluctuated narrowly yesterday to close steady at irregularly lower levels. From the stand-point of breadth, the number of issues dealt in, the market on the Hew York Stock Exchange was the narrowest since Oct. 19, last, a total of but 706, against 685 on the October date.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 21. -- Under any name, Boston's National League club looks the same to the Yankees. Manager Joe McCarthy's athletes finally caught up with the Hub clan at Waterfront Park today, after two of their scheduled games had been washed out by rain, and treated this year's Bees as if they were last year's Braves.
AMERICA'S resurgent urge to visit the Old World that gave it birth seems stronger this year than at any time since 1931. The transatlantic travel season opened with various economic and psychological factors working toward fuller passenger lists and longer trips.
In historic St. James's Palace in London (where Charles I slept the night before he was beheaded) the Council of the League of Nations listened last Thursday to a twenty-five-minute speech by Joachim von Ribbentrop, Adolf Hitler's Ambassador at Large.
In most of the flood-stricken areas of thirteen States the waters were receding yesterday. The total deaths were estimated at 170, those homeless at 221,500 and the total damage approached $300,000,000. In Western Pennsylvania and Northern West Virginia a blizzard intensified the misery of the homeless. New rains threatened to renew the Connecticut Valley inundation.
1936Erol Büyükburç, Turkish singer-songwriter, pop music composer, and actor (died 2015)[†]
Erol Büyükburç was a Turkish singer-songwriter, pop music composer, and actor.
1936Ron Carey, American trade union leader (died 2008)[†]
Ronald Robert Carey was an American labor leader who served as president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1991 to 1997. He was the first Teamster General President elected by a direct vote of the membership. He ran for re-election in 1996 and won, but in 1997 federal investigators discovered that the Carey campaign had engaged in an illegal donation kickback scheme to raise more than $700,000 for the 1996 re-election effort. His re-election was overturned, Carey was disqualified from running for Teamsters president again, and he was subsequently expelled from the union for life. Although a federal jury ultimately cleared him of all wrongdoing in the scandal, the lifetime ban remained in place until his death.
1936Roger Whittaker, Kenyan-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2023)[†]
Roger Henry Brough Whittaker was a Kenyan and British singer-songwriter and musician. His music is an eclectic mixture of folk music and popular songs, the latter variously in a crooning or in a schlager style. He is best known for his baritone singing voice and trademark whistling ability as well as his guitar skills.