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Plans for trip to France to unveil Canadian Vimy Ridge memorial
LONDON, July 24. -- "I wish I had done the job properly."
Gil Robles requested by French to leave Biarritz for residence at least 100 kilometers from frontier
RA estimates $125,000,000 to $160,000,000 needed for emergency relief; submits projects to WPA; 55 counties added to drought list including nearly all Kansas; rain forecast in corn belt; immediate freight reductions on cattle feed ordered in Mont and Daks
radio message, intercepted by Spanish Govt, reveals he financed army uprising
1936Gerry Ashmore, English race car driver (died 2021)[†]
Joseph Frederick Harold Gerald "Gerry" Ashmore was a British motor racing driver from England. He participated in four Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, scoring no championship points.
1936Glenn Murcutt, English-Australian architect and academic[†]
Glenn Marcus Murcutt is an Australian architect and winner of the 1992 Alvar Aalto Medal, the 2002 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the 2009 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and the 2021 Praemium Imperiale. Glenn Murcutt works as a sole practitioner without staff, builds only within Australia and is known to be very selective with his projects. Being the only Australian winner of the prestigious Pritzker Prize, he is often referred to as Australia's most famous architect.