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May 11, 1938

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Headlines from May 11, 1938

ROOSEVELT AVOIDS COMMENT ON HAGUE; Sees Issue Not One for Him--Mayor Assailed by Church Group and Labor Leader Thomas Application Denied ROOSEVELT AVOIDS COMMENT ON HAGUE Diocese Condemns Policies Merchants Are Reassured Labor Leader Attacks Hague

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N J chief, C Holderman, assails Mayor Hague, radio s

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REPUBLICANS UNITE BEHIND BACON BILL FOR SPENDING CURB; Direct Fight in House to Clip Wings of WPA and PWA and Give States Relief Rule SHARP DEBATE OVER FUNDS Woodrum Says Critics Distort Figures on Outlay Called For in Recovery Measure Sees Peril to National-Credit Taber Says Many Lack Nerve REPUBLICANS UNITE BEHIND BACON BILL Woodrum Chides Bill's Critics

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

opposes bill, House

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AMOY IS ATTACKED BY JAPANESE FLEET; Invaders Land After Day's Bombardment of Island by Ships and Planes U. S. Warships on Way Chinese Resistance Sharp JAPANESE ATTACK PORT AMOY IS ATTACKED BY JAPANESE FLEET Chinese Tell of Gains Amoy University Bombed Twenty-six Americans In Amoy

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Japanese landing party occupies part of Amoy Is after day-long bombardment; map; USS Marblehead hastens to aid Amers; all foreigners reptd safe; Chinese reptd holding back Japanese thrusts on Lung-Hai ry

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SCHOOLS TO OUST CHIEF OF BUILDINGS; Long Fusion Fight on Martin Near End, but Carlin Wins a Delay in Abolishing Job Second Objection Succeeds SCHOOLS TO OUST CHIEF OF BUILDINGS

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Fusion opposition on N Y C Educ Bd acts to abolish Supt of School Bldgs position he holds

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TRANSIT UNITY DEBT IS PUT UP TO ALBANY FOR QUICK ACTION; Amendment in Convention Two New Phases of Amendment Free Transfers a New Step Fertig Acts on Expectation of Agreement on Price Before the Convention Quits FEEDER TROLLEYS A PART Amendment Draft Also Curbs Future Attempts to Side-Step City's Debt Limitation TRANSIT UNITY DEBT IS PUT UP TO ALBANY TEXT OF THE AMENDMENT Fertig Explains in Detail Says Agreement Is Expected Curb on Undue Expansion of Debt HOPES FOR UNIFICATION Delaney Says It Would Ease Fulton Street Elevated Problem

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Testifies before City Council on Fulton St L demolition

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1938George Lyon, Canadian golfer and cricketer (born 1858)^[†]

George Seymour Lyon was a Canadian golfer, an Olympic gold medalist in golf, an eight-time Canadian Amateur Championship winner, and a member of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. He worked in the insurance industry.

Headlines from May 11, 1938

ROOSEVELT AVOIDS COMMENT ON HAGUE; Sees Issue Not One for Him--Mayor Assailed by Church Group and Labor Leader Thomas Application Denied ROOSEVELT AVOIDS COMMENT ON HAGUE Diocese Condemns Policies Merchants Are Reassured Labor Leader Attacks Hague

AMOY IS ATTACKED BY JAPANESE FLEET; Invaders Land After Day's Bombardment of Island by Ships and Planes U. S. Warships on Way Chinese Resistance Sharp JAPANESE ATTACK PORT AMOY IS ATTACKED BY JAPANESE FLEET Chinese Tell of Gains Amoy University Bombed Twenty-six Americans In Amoy

SCHOOLS TO OUST CHIEF OF BUILDINGS; Long Fusion Fight on Martin Near End, but Carlin Wins a Delay in Abolishing Job Second Objection Succeeds SCHOOLS TO OUST CHIEF OF BUILDINGS

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