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January 11, 1938

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Headlines from January 11, 1938

LEHMAN'S 1938-39 BUDGET CUTS EXPENSES $15,000,000, BUT SPECIAL TAXES STAND; TOTAL $385,824,459

By Warren Moscow

Gov in budget message, asks revision and retention of emergency taxes

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Eight Puerto Rican Nationalists Convicted Of Attempt to Assassinate Judge Cooper

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

J Pinto Gandia and 7 others sentenced

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Soviet Now Rushes Aid to North Polar Party As Ice Floe Starts Drifting South Swiftly

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

MOSCOW, Jan. 10.--The north polar ice floe on which . Ivan D. Papanin and his three fellow-scientists are making observations now has begun drifting so rapidly into southern waters that the Great Northern Sea Route Administration is obliged to make new plans for their earliest removal.

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Planetoid May Return To Position Near Earth

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

asteroid may return in 3 yrs

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SOVIET DENOUNCES BISHOPS AS SPIES; Both Orthodox Leaders Among Those Accused in Drive on Terrorism and Wrecking

By Harold Denny

Soviet denounces 21 Bishops as spies

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1938Arthur Scargill, English miner, activist, and politician^[†]

Arthur Scargill is a British trade unionist who was President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1982 to 2002. He is best known for leading the 1984–1985 UK miners' strike, a major event in the history of the British labour movement.

Headlines from January 11, 1938

LEHMAN'S 1938-39 BUDGET CUTS EXPENSES $15,000,000, BUT SPECIAL TAXES STAND; TOTAL $385,824,459

Eight Puerto Rican Nationalists Convicted Of Attempt to Assassinate Judge Cooper

Soviet Now Rushes Aid to North Polar Party As Ice Floe Starts Drifting South Swiftly

Planetoid May Return To Position Near Earth

SOVIET DENOUNCES BISHOPS AS SPIES; Both Orthodox Leaders Among Those Accused in Drive on Terrorism and Wrecking

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