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TRENTON, N.J., Aug. 10. -- The State Milk Control Board announced today an increase of 1 cent a quart in the price of milk to consumers, effective next Sunday. Three-fourths of the advance will go to producers and the remainder to dealers.
will not be delegate to N Y S Dem convention; speculation on effect on State and natl elections
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CIO meeting holds members are not engaged in building dual organization and AFL exec council exceeded its authority in holding trial; ct action to compel seating of delegates at AFL convention left to individual unions
1936Andre Dubus, American short story writer, essayist, and memoirist (died 1999)[†]
Andre Jules Dubus II was an American writer of short stories, novels, and essays.
1936Bill Monbouquette, American baseball player and coach (died 2015)[†]
William Charles Monbouquette was an American professional baseball player and coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a right-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox (1958–65), Detroit Tigers (1966–67), New York Yankees (1967–68), and the San Francisco Giants (1968). A four-time All-Star player, Monbouquette was notable for pitching a no-hitter in 1962 as a member of the Red Sox. He was inducted into the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2000.
1936Jonathan Spence, English-American historian and academic (died 2021)[†]
Jonathan Dermot Spence was a British-American historian, sinologist, and author specialised in Chinese history. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from 1993 to 2008. His most widely read book is The Search for Modern China, a survey of the last several hundred years of Chinese history based on his popular course at Yale. A prolific author, reviewer, and essayist, he published over a dozen books on China. Spence's major interest was modern China, especially the Qing dynasty, and relations between China and the West. Spence frequently used biographies to examine cultural and political history. Another common theme is the efforts of both Westerners and Chinese "to change China", and how such efforts were frustrated.
1936Blas Infante, Spanish historian and politician (born 1885)[†]
Blas Infante Pérez de Vargas was an Andalusian socialist politician, Georgist, writer, historian and musicologist. He is considered the "father of Andalusia" by Andalusian nationalists.