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Barcelona bombed; 5 Rebel bombers escape; Franco shifts air force from Ebro River front to defend Albarracin; conflict spreads
defense attacks bill as incomplete and asks ct to bar evidence on it and to dismiss indictment; Dodge denies charge against him
Mme Chiang Kai-shek urges women workers to leave Hankow
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Const Conv: indifferent to proposed amendment to extend retirement age limit for Appeals Ct judges
1938Ellen Schrecker, American historian and academic[†]
Ellen Wolf Schrecker is an American professor emerita of American history at Yeshiva University. She has received the Frederick Ewen Academic Freedom Fellowship at the Tamiment Library at New York University. She is known primarily for her work in the history of McCarthyism. Historian Ronald Radosh has described her as "the dean of the anti-anti-Communist historians."
1938Pearl White, American actress (born 1889)[†]
Pearl Fay White was an American stage and film actress. She began her career on the stage at age 6, and later moved on to silent films appearing in a number of popular serials.