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April 4, 1938

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REPUBLICANS MAP CONSTITUTION IDEAS; Murray, Pitcher and Justices Reach Albany to Plan for Convention Tomorrow Wagner Will Arrive Today REPUBLICANS MAP CONSTITUTION IDEAS People Must Vote on Plans Flynn Will Make Address

By Warren Moscowspecial To the New York Times

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RAIL HEADS, LABOR SEEK HALF BILLION IN R. F. C. 'SUBSIDY'; Joint Proposal to Be Put to President to Keep Up Jobs and Maintain Lines REVENUE LOSSES CITED Plan Is Drawn for Conference Today in Roosevelt Study of Measures for Congress See Federal Step Essential RAIL HEADS, LABOR FOR SUBSIDY PLAN Estimate on 1938 Earnings, Lag Eastman's Transportation Plan BASIC PROPOSITIONS PROGRAM Wheeler for Write-Offs First New Consolidation Proposals

By Felix Belair Jr.special To the New York Times

Program for coping with transportation problem circulated in rr circles

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ROOSEVELT, BACK, ACCGEPTS TWO AENDMENTS TO BILL TO SPEED REORGANIZATION; SUBMITS TO VETOES Capitol Could Override Orders He Had Given to Shift Agencies SCHOOL BUREAU EXEMPT Church Objections Thus MetPresident Talks for an Hour With Party Leaders Rayburn Tells of Conference To Delay Debate in House PRESIDENT ACCEPTS HOUSE COMPROMISE President Reticent on Changes

By Lauren D. Lymanspecial To the New York Times

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NAVAL FRONTIER' OPPOSED BY HULL; We Must Be Free to Defend Americans Anywhere, the Secretary Tells Senators Adequate Security" Essential. Protection of Nationals Cited NAVAL FRONTIER' OPPOSED BY HULL

By Unknown Author

Lr to Sen Walsh on naval expansion

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AUSTRIANS RESENT THEIR ABSORPTION; TYROLESE HOSTILE; Tour Shows Feeling Against German Tactics and SomeColdness to Reich Troops ITALIANS ALSO UNHAPPY Delay in Move Against Czechs Seen Till Hitler Can Digest Austria, Fortify Brenner What Is Behind Scene AUSTRIANS RESENT THEIR ABSORPTION Lowest of Great Alpine Passes No Other Forts Seen Many Taken by Surprise Effect for Czechoslovakia Germans Recall War Split

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Reich move delay seen

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Notable Births

A. Bartlett Giamatti

1938A. Bartlett Giamatti, American businessman and academic (died 1989)^[†]

Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti was an American professor of English Renaissance literature, the president of Yale University, and the seventh commissioner of Major League Baseball.