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cash offerings oversubscribed; books to close; exch offering books to close June 3; Morgenthau pleased; Wall St reaction to offerings
Sir P Bates comments on SS Queen Mary as factor for peace
Comments on U S Sup Ct decision voiding N Y S minimum wage law
Slain by fellow prisoners at Sing Sing
Deplores Sup Ct decision voiding N Y S minimum wage law
1936Volodymyr Holubnychy, Ukrainian race walker (died 2021)[†]
Volodymyr Stepanovych Holubnychy was a Ukrainian race walker, who competed for the Soviet Union. He dominated the 20 kilometre race walk in the 1960s and 1970s, winning four Olympic medals from 1960 to 1972 and finishing seventh in 1976. He became Olympic champion in 1960 and 1968. He is regarded as one of the greatest race walkers of all time and competed at the Olympics on five occasions in 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976.