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March 16, 1937

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LABOR DEMOCRACY IS BAR TO FASCISM, LEWIS SAYS HERE; Tells 20,000 at Anti-Nazi Rally That the Workers Can Block Reaction

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LaGuardia cheered as he attends anti-Nazi rally; renews attacks; Rabbi S S Wise and Gen H S Johnson approve attacks

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HOSPITAL STRIKERS ROUTED BY POLICE WITH PISTOLS, AXES; 19 Seized on Court Order for Endangering the Patients In a Brooklyn Institution 132 JOIN IN SIT-DOWN Agree to Truce After Being Cowed-Operating Table Used as Battering Ram Nineteen Are Arrested Strikers Armed With Brooms HOSPITAL STRIKERS ROUTED BY POLICE Further Trouble Prevented Offers to Give Food to Patients

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Amid scenes of wild disorder, policemen with drawn pistols routed strikers who had barricaded themselves yesterday in different rooms of the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital in an eight-hour sit-down staged by 132 employes of the institution.

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COURT ORDERS C. I. O. STRIKERS TO LEAVE CHRYSLER PLANTS; MURPHY PLANS ENFORCEMENT; COMPANY IS UPHELD Judge Campbell Fixes Evacuation Deadline at 9 A. M. Tomorrow SETS $10,000,000 PENALTY Workers Picket Detroit Court House While the Decision Against Them Is Read MURPHY CALLS UNIONISTS Meanwhile, Employes Stage a Sit-Down in Hotel Statler--Guests Are Marooned The text of the court's order appears on Page 4. Murphy Much Concerned Police Chase Pickets CHRYSLERSTRIKERS LOSE OUSTER FIGHT Calls on Public to Aid Negotiations Are Resumed STRIKE HALTS DETROIT FOOD Warehouse Workers Tie Up Whole Supply-Truck Drivers Also Out

By Russell B. Portebspecial To the New York Times

ct orders evacuation of Chrysler plant

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ROBINSON CORDIAL TO AN AMENDMENT; Roosevelt Court Plan First, but Other Proposals Might Be Corollary NORRIS OFFERS PROGRAM Would Require Two-Thirds Bench to Void Congress Act, Fix Judges' Term Norris's Twofold Plan ROBINSON CORDIAL TO AN AMENDMENT

By Turner Catledgespecial To the New York Times

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MOFFAT BILL GAINS IN CHILD LABOR ROW; Enough Democrats Now in Sight to Pass State Ban on Goods So Made SENATORS FEEL BACKFIRE Quick Vote for Amendment Later Hit by Clergy Brings Letters From Home

By W. A. Warnspecial To the New York Times

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Notable Births

1937David Frith, English historian, journalist, and author^[†]

David Edward John Frith is an English cricket writer and historian. Cricinfo describes him as "an author, historian, and founding editor of Wisden Cricket Monthly".

1937Attilio Nicora, Italian cardinal (died 2017)^[†]

Attilio Nicora was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who held senior positions in the administration of the Roman Curia as president of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See from 2002 to 2011 and president of the four-person Executive Board of the Financial Information Authority (FIA) from 2011 to 2014. He was bishop of Verona from 1992 to 1997. He was given the personal title of archbishop in 2002 and was made a cardinal in 2003.

1937Amos Tversky, Israeli-American psychologist and academic (died 1996)^[†]

Amos Nathan Tversky was an Israeli cognitive and mathematical psychologist and a key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk.

Notable Deaths

1937Austen Chamberlain, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1863)^[†]

Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain was a British statesman, son of Joseph Chamberlain and older half-brother of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 45 years, as Chancellor of the Exchequer (twice) and was briefly Conservative Party leader before serving as Foreign Secretary.

1937Alexander von Staël-Holstein, Estonian orientalist and sinologist (born 1877)^[†]

Alexander Wilhelm Freiherr Staël von Holstein was a Baltic German aristocrat, Russian and Estonian orientalist, sinologist, and Sanskritologist specializing in Buddhist texts.