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Charges New Deal with juggling accounts to conceal expenditures, s to Repub rally; hostile crowd outside, Phila
Manoeuvres planned at Frankfort and Cologne
session called; text of statement
Roosevelt charges use of stockholders' money to finance Wall St propaganda against him, s in Cleveland
Lehman calls session; text of statement
1936Sathima Bea Benjamin, South African singer-songwriter (died 2013)[†]
Beatrice "Sathima Bea" Benjamin was a South African vocalist and composer based in New York City for nearly 45 years.
1936Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese-American seismologist and academic[†]
Hiroo Kanamori is a Japanese seismologist who has made fundamental contributions to understanding the physics of earthquakes and the tectonic processes that cause them.
1936Santiago Navarro, Spanish basketball player (died 1993)[†]
Santiago Navarro was a Spanish basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
1936Bert Nievera, Filipino-American singer (died 2018)[†]
Roberto Jose Dela Cruz Nievera was a Filipino-American singer and businessman. He rose to prominence in 1959 after winning the "Search for Johnny Mathis of the Philippines", a singing contest on the television variety show Student Canteen. He was one of the original members of the Society of Seven (SOS).