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S Smith and J Troue held on extortion indictment in connection with racketeering activities of Independent Taxicab Union; D Klein held as witness; alarm out for J Firone (M Brown) and 2 others named on same charge
Indicted in passport inquiry
conf with Roosevelt on subsidy; ICC rept may be made pub
tells of priests' assassination
LaGuardia discloses plans for privately financed and other projects; calls conf to stabilize working conditions during construction
1938Colin Bland, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (died 2018)[†]
Kenneth Colin Bland was a Rhodesian cricketer who played in 21 Test matches for South Africa in the 1960s. He is regarded as one of the greatest fielders in the history of Test cricket.
1938Mal Colston, Australian educator and politician (died 2003)[†]
Malcolm Arthur Colston was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Queensland from 1975 to 1999. He was a member of the Labor Party until 1996, when he resigned to sit as an independent following a dispute over his candidacy for Deputy President of the Senate. Colston was a schoolteacher before entering politics, and held a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Queensland.
1938Nancy Holt, American sculptor and painter (died 2014)[†]
Nancy Holt was an American artist most known for her public sculpture, installation art, concrete poetry, and land art. Throughout her career, Holt also produced works in other media, including film and photography. Since 2018, her legacy has been cared for by Holt/Smithson Foundation.
1938Natalya Kustinskaya, Soviet actress (died 2012)[†]
Natalya Nikolayevna Kustinskaya was a Soviet actress, who was a Meritorious Artist of Russia from 1999.
1938Giorgos Sideris, Greek footballer[†]
Giorgos Sideris is a Greek former footballer, who played as striker.
1938Helena Westermarck, Finnish artist and writer (born 1857)[†]
Helena Charlotta Westermarck was a Swedish-speaking Finnish artist and writer. She is known for her pioneering biographies of women.
1938Verner Lehtimäki, Finnish revolutionary (born 1890)[†]
Verner Lehtimäki was a Finnish socialist, soldier, pilot, aerospace engineer and revolutionary who fought for the Reds during the Finnish Civil War.
1938Spanish Civil War: Two days after the Nationalist army occupied the Catalan city of Lleida, dictator Francisco Franco decrees the abolition of the Generalitat (the autonomous government of Catalonia), the self-government granted by the Republic, and the official status of the Catalan language.[†]
The Spanish Civil War was fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic and included socialists, anarchists, communists, and separatists. The opposing Nationalists who established the Spanish State were an alliance of fascist Falangists, monarchists, conservatives, and traditionalists supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy and led by a military junta among whom General Francisco Franco quickly achieved a preponderant role. Due to the international political climate at the time, the war was variously viewed as class struggle, a religious struggle, or a struggle between dictatorship and republican democracy, between revolution and counterrevolution, or between fascism and communism. The Nationalists won the war, which ended in early 1939, and ruled Spain until Franco's death in November 1975.