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August 25, 1937

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PRESIDENT IN DOUBT ON SPECIAL SESSION AFTER DAY OF TALKS; He Consults Barkley, Rayburn, Connally, Schwellenbach and Marvin Jones SUGAR BILL MAY BE KEY Veto Possible and Present Act Expires With Year--Southern Members Oppose Call President Frankly in Doubt Sugar Action Viewed as Key CALL TO CONGRESS REMAINS IN DOUBT Presses Farm Bill Drafting House Members Oppose Call CALL TO CONGRESS REMAINS IN DOUBT

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

status of bill remains same in case of special session

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KEY TO SANTANDER TAKEN BY REBELS WITHOUT FIGHTING; Fall of Torrelavega Cuts Off Escape to the West--Coast Column Gains MADRID IS SHELLED AGAIN Insurgent Planes Bomb East Coast--Loyalists Launch Offensive in East Defenders' Line Is Turned Speedy End Foreseen Torrelavega Does Not Resist KEY TO SANTANDER TAKEN BY REBELS Shells Kill Ten in Madrid Rebels Bomb East Coast Britain Defers Protest Say Rebels Imprisoned Crew Two Ships Escape Torpedoes Sails for Spain With Gasoline

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Brit tanker Esturia sails for Loyalist Spain with gasoline

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Notable Births

1937Jimmy Hannan, Australian television host and singer (died 2019)[†]

Jimmy Hannan was an Australian radio and television personality, variety show host, singer, entertainer and game show host of the 1960s and 1970s. One of the pioneers of television, he appeared regularly on variety show In Melbourne Tonight, and later hosted his own musical variety show Jimmy, later called Tonight with Jimmy Hannan. Hannan hosted music show Saturday Date from 1963 until 1967, which featured such performers as Billy Thorpe and Olivia Newton-John. He won the 1965 Gold Logie award for most popular personality on Australian television.

1937Virginia Euwer Wolff, American author[†]

Virginia Euwer Wolff is an American author of children's literature. Her award-winning series Make Lemonade features a 14-year-old girl named LaVaughn, who babysits for the children of a 17-year-old single mother. There are three books. The second, True Believer, won the 2001 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. The second and third, This Full House (2009), garnered Kirkus Reviews starred reviews. She was the recipient of the 2011 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature, honoring her entire body of work.