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July 29, 1938

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BOTH PARTIES BACK TRANSIT UNITY PLAN AS PASSAGE NEARS; Convention at Albany Advances $315,000,000 Program to the Third Reading FARE ISSUE IS SET ASIDE Rate Is the City's Problem and Should Not Complicate Matters Now, Fertig Pleads Many Delegates Go to Races Eager to Clear Up "Mess" BOTH PARTIES BACK TRANSIT UNITY PLAN Amendment Covers Two Bills Provisions for Transit Debt Says City Would Break Even Speed-Up of Negotiations Is Seen

By Warren Moscowspecial To the New York Times

session; lack of quorum stirs debate

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BLUE-RIBBON JURY ORDERED FOR HINES; DEWEY IN CLASH; Pecora Grants Special Panel--Sets Tuesday for Naming of 'Influenced' Judges STRYKER ANGERS OFFICIAL Prosecutor Accuses Him of a 'Slimy Insinuation' in Debate--Lawyer Replies Sharply Request Denied by Court Sees Needed Evidence Granted BLUE-RIBBON JURY ORDERED FOR HINES Heated Reply by Dewey Derides "Mantle of Virtue"

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ct orders blue ribbon jury and sets date for filing bill of particulars; refuses defense motion to further modify it; Dewey in clash with L P Stryker, defense atty, over jury selection

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Notable Births

Peter Jennings

1938Peter Jennings, Canadian-American journalist and author (died 2005)[†]

Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings was a Canadian and American television journalist. He was best known for serving as the sole anchor of ABC World News Tonight from 1983 until his death from lung cancer in 2005. Despite dropping out of high school, Jennings transformed himself into one of American television's most prominent journalists.

1938Jean Rochon, Canadian physician and politician (died 2021)[†]

Jean Rochon was a Canadian politician and member of the National Assembly of Quebec. He was a cabinet minister for several ministries from 1994 to 2003 when the Parti Québécois formed the government under the leadership of Jacques Parizeau, Lucien Bouchard and Bernard Landry.

Notable Deaths

Nikolai Krylenko

1938Nikolai Krylenko, Russian lawyer, jurist, and politician, Prosecutor General of the Russian SFSR (born 1885)[†]

Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko was an Old Bolshevik and Soviet politician, military commander, and jurist. Krylenko served in a variety of posts in the Soviet legal system, rising to become People's Commissar for Justice and Prosecutor General of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic. He was executed during the Great Purge.