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August 3, 1937

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Notable Births

1937Steven Berkoff, English actor, director, and playwright^[†]

Steven Berkoff is an English actor, author, playwright, theatre practitioner and theatre director.

1937Roland Burris, American lawyer and politician, 39th Illinois Attorney General^[†]

Roland Wallace Burris is an American politician and attorney who served as Attorney General of Illinois from 1991 to 1995 and as a United States senator from Illinois from 2009 until 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, Burris was the first African-American elected to statewide office in Illinois.

1937Duncan Sharpe, Pakistani-Australian cricketer^[†]

Duncan Albert Sharpe is a Pakistani former cricketer who played in three Test matches in 1959–60. Sharpe is of Anglo-Indian heritage, and was the third Christian to play Test cricket for Pakistan. He has lived in Australia since 1961.

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Headlines from August 3, 1937

Democrats Press Their New Book Sale; Seek $216,000 From 1936 Convention Report

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Bound stenographic rept of Dem natl convention offered for sale

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SENATORS STORM AT HINT OF NAMING JUSTICE IN RECESS; Battle Over Vandenberg Move to Force a Supreme Court Choice During Session

By Turner Catledge

Informs Roosevelt recess Sup Ct apptmts are valid

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NANKING'S ARMIES SPEED NORTHWARD; VAST WAR IN VIEW; Heavy Troop Movements Clog Main Railways--Hunan Units Reported Nearing Tientsin

By Unknown Author

Chinese troop movements reptd in North China; Japanese planes bomb Techow, Shantung Province; Amers in Shantung warned to concentrate at Tsinan and Tsingtao; Hari Fu-chu returns to Tsinan; Chiang Kai-shek confers with Gen Pal Tsung-hsi, Deputy Pacification Comr of Kwangsi, and Gen Li Tsung-jen, Kuling; Red Cross hdqrs opened at Nanking; Canton disturbed at assembling of Japanese war ships at Swatow

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