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LISBON, Portugal, Nov. 17. -- Despite the government's heavy counter-attacks, Spanish Insurgents maintained their positions in Madrid today, holding the Moncloa quarter and University City, on the northwestern edge of Madrid, with a footing in the West Park and Bombilla.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. -- President Roosevelt started at 8 o'clock tonight for Charleston, S. C., where he will board the cruiser Indianapolis and head south to Buenos Aires, where on Dec. 1 he will address the opening session of the Inter-American Conference for the Promotion of Peace.
Dr R G Tugwell resigns as under-sec
Appellate Div rules city's claim for sales taxes is prior lien above all other claims, Rockaway Paint Center Inc case
Bonus for employes, extra divd
1936Ennio Antonelli, Italian cardinal[†]
Ennio Antonelli is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who was president of the Pontifical Council for the Family from 2008 to 2012. He has been a bishop since 1982, serving as bishop of Gubbio from 1982 to 1988, archbishop of Perugia from 1988 to 1995, and archbishop of Florence from 2001 to 2008. He led the Italian Episcopal Conference from 1995 to 2001 and was raised to the rank of cardinal in 2003.
1936Don Cherry, American trumpet player (died 1995)[†]
Donald Eugene Cherry was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist. Beginning in the late 1950s, he had a long tenure performing in the bands of saxophonist Ornette Coleman, including on the pioneering free jazz albums The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959) and Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (1961). Cherry also collaborated separately with musicians including John Coltrane, Charlie Haden, Sun Ra, Ed Blackwell, the New York Contemporary Five, and Albert Ayler.
1936John Edmond, Rhodesian folk singer and soldier[†]
John Edmond is a Rhodesian folk singer and retired soldier who became popular in the 1970s for his Rhodesian patriotic songs. He reached the height of his fame during the Rhodesian Bush War, when he was sometimes known as the "Bush Cat".
1936V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, Indian lawyer and politician (born 1872)[†]
Vallinayagam Olaganathan Chidambaram Pillai was an Indian freedom fighter, lawyer, businessman, Tamil scholar, and politician. He founded the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company in 1906 to compete against the monopoly of the British India Steam Navigation Company (BISNC). He launched the first indigenous Indian shipping service between Tuticorin in British India and Colombo in Ceylon. Once a member of the Indian National Congress, he was later charged with sedition by the British government and sentenced to life imprisonment, and his barrister license was revoked. He is known by the epithet Kappalottiya Tamizhan. Tuticorin Port Trust, one of India's thirteen major ports, is named after him.