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1937Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, Indian religious leader, founded the Gaudiya Math (born 1874)[†]
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, born Bimala Prasad Datt, was an Indian Gaudīya Vaisnava Hindu guru, ācārya, and revivalist in early twentieth-century India. To his followers, he was known as Srila Prabhupāda (an honorific also later extended to his disciple A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami.
Received by Pope
Standard Oil Co pays $50,000,000 personal property assessment
Insurgent pilots reptd to have raided Rebel trenches by mistake, near Oviedo
Appellate Div of Sup Ct
Count Ciano approves Mediterranean pact text
Baker, H, slain in dynamite explosion; Mrs E Sieler shot and seriously wounded, Sioux Falls
W Egmont (E Ruschke) arrested for forging name to false contract to pub history of Red Cross
S on ghost stars, to AAAS
Takes charges in Mattson Kidnap case, Tacoma
7 General Motors plants closed by sitdowns; 5 others affected; 33,400 men idle; W S Knudsen, v-p, insists grievances should be taken to local plant mgrs in reply to H Martin, pres of United Auto Workers of Amer, who asks for gen conf on collective bargaining; says union makes negotiations impossible by calling sitdowns first; statement by H H Curtice, pres of Buick Motor Co, on closing of its Flint plant
Skies over Broadway quivered last midnight to the noisiest New Year's celebration Times Square had ever seen.