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May 12, 1936

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SON OF J.H. THOMAS AIDED TAX HEDGER; But He Denies That His Father, the British Colonial Secretary, Had Told Him Budget Plans. INSURANCE RUSH IS ISSUE Inquiry on Leaks of Secrets Shows That Another Friend of Thomas Foresaw Levy Rise. SON OF J.H. THOMAS AIDED TAX HEDGER

By Ferdinand Kuhn Jr.wireless To the New York Times

L Thomas, son of Colonial Sec, testifies at inquiry; admits taking out ins with Lloyd's but denies receiving budget information from his father (F Kuhn Jr)

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ZEPPELIN FLIES OVER CITY, THEN HEADS FOR GERMANY; RACING FOR NEW RECORD; PLAYS LIGHTS ON STREETS Hindenburg Passes Over at 12:06 A.M. and Points for Sea. WEATHER IS FAVORABLE Eckener Confident Ship Will Set a New Mark for the Eastward Crossing. 48 PASSENGERS ABOARD 150,000 Pieces of Mail Being Taken to Frankfort -- 25,000 See Craft at Base. ZEPPLIN LEAVES; FLIES OVER CITY

By Unknown Author

Taking off on her return to Germany from Lakehurst at 11:27 o'clock last night, with a forty-five-hour record from coast to coast as the goal of her commander, the Zeppelin Hindenburg flew over New York with her searchlight waving in farewell at 12:06 o'clock this morning as she sped toward Frankfort, Germany, her home port.

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Notable Births

Guillermo Endara

1936Guillermo Endara, Panamanian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Panama (died 2009)[†]

Guillermo David Endara Galimany was a Panamanian politician who served as the president of Panama from 1989 to 1994.

Tom Snyder

1936Tom Snyder, American journalist and talk show host (died 2007)[†]

Thomas James Snyder was an American television personality, news anchor, and radio personality best known for his late night talk shows Tomorrow, on NBC in the 1970s and 1980s, and The Late Late Show, on CBS in the 1990s. Snyder was also the pioneer anchor of the prime time NBC News Update, in the 1970s and early 1980s, which was a one-minute capsule of news updates.

Frank Stella

1936Frank Stella, American painter and sculptor (died 2024)[†]

Frank Philip Stella was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. He lived and worked in New York City for much of his career before moving his studio to Rock Tavern, New York. Stella's work catalyzed the minimalist movement in the late 1950s. He moved to New York City in the late 1950s, where he created works which emphasized the picture-as-object. These were influenced by the abstract expressionist work of artists like Franz Kline and Jackson Pollock. He developed a reductionist approach to his art, saying he wanted to demonstrate that for him, every painting is "a flat surface with paint on it—nothing more", and disavowed conceptions of art as a means of expressing emotion. He won notice in the New York art world in 1959 when his four black pinstripe paintings were shown at the Museum of Modern Art. Stella was a recipient of the National Medal of Arts in 2009 and the Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture by the International Sculpture Center in 2011.