Haile Selassie to Plead Sanctions Be Continued
By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES
To be considered pol refugee if he remains in Switzerland
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June 24, 1936
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FARM PRINCIPLES CHOSEN; Crop Balancing 'Within Federal Powers' Is Aim Agreed On. WALLACE WINS HIS FIGHT Wagner's Plan Is Scrapped and the New Declaration Is Even Shorter Than His. BALANCED BUDGET SOUGHT Strong Backing for Federal Rule of Work Relief Expected -- Constitution Let Alone. NEW FARM PLANK IS AGREED UPON
By Felix Belair Jr.special To the New York Times
draft of revised Dem plank; Wallace and Wagner confer; Amer Farm Bur Fed's demands
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Roosevelt 'Too Busy' to Watch Philadelphia; Gets No Word From There, He Says, Laughing
By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Conf with Roosevelt on nominating and acceptance ss
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GLASS IS ADAMANT IN REFUSING POST; Pressure of Party Leaders Fails to Induce Him to Serve on Resolutions Committee. A 'MENTAL WALKOUT' SEEN But He and Byrd, as Party Men, Will Back Roosevelt Despite Hostility to New Deal. GLASS IS ADAMANT IN REFUSING POST
By Charles R. Michaelspecial To the New York Times
pressure fails to induce him to serve; to be onlooker at convention
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Notable Births
1936Robert Downey Sr., American actor and director (died 2021)[†]
Robert John Downey Sr. was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He was known for writing and directing the underground film Putney Swope (1969), a satire on the New York Madison Avenue advertising world. According to film scholar Wheeler Winston Dixon, Downey's films during the 1960s were "strictly take-no-prisoners affairs, with minimal budgets and outrageous satire, effectively pushing forward the countercultural agenda of the day." He was the father of American actor Robert Downey Jr.