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Heavy attacks were resumed by the Insurgents on the Catalonian front yesterday and they reported they had made gains averaging six miles all along the line.
Atty Gen Murphy announces plans to speed litigation; orders all U S Attys to list cases pending for more than 2 yrs
Schacht conf with Rublee after conf with Goering; Reich makes concessions
pol in WPA debated in Sen
Five delegates from two locals of the American Federation of Teachers were directed to leave the meeting of the Central Trades and Labor Council of Greater New York and Vicinity last night after their locals, ...
1939Paul Coverdell, American captain and politician (died 2000)[†]
Paul Douglas Coverdell was an American politician who served as a United States senator from Georgia from 1993 until his death in 2000. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the director of the Peace Corps from 1989 to 1991 under President George H. W. Bush.
1939Chandra Wickramasinghe, Sri Lankan-English mathematician, astronomer, and biologist[†]
Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe is a Sri Lankan-born British mathematician and astronomer. His research interests include the interstellar medium, infrared astronomy, light scattering theory, applications of solid-state physics to astronomy, the early Solar System, comets, astrochemistry, the origin of life and astrobiology. A student and collaborator of Fred Hoyle, the pair worked jointly for over 40 years as the most famous proponents of a non-mainstream version of panspermia, the proposal that life was seeded on Earth through space-based processes. In 1974 they proposed that some dust in interstellar space matched the spectral characteristics of freeze-dried bacteria, which was largely ignored at its publishing while the ubiquity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons explains the apparent match.