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Bor Pres Isaacs calls both sides to conf; mfrs appeal to city authorities; illus of crowded lobbies
Repts Germany is fortifying island near Guam, House com
Hears H Hoover
bill offered by Sen Thomas; endorsed by Sen Connally; bill for mil training offered by Repr Richards
Comment on 1939 realty and franchise tax assessments
1939Jackie Burroughs, English-born Canadian actress (died 2010)[†]
Jacqueline Burroughs was a Canadian actress. Burroughs starred in over 100 films and television shows over her career, including Heavy Metal, The Care Bears Movie, The Grey Fox, and Anne of Green Gables, and was best known for her role as Hetty King in the TV series Road to Avonlea.
1939Mary-Dell Chilton, American chemist and inventor and one of the founders of modern plant biotechnology[†]
Mary-Dell Chilton is one of the founders of modern plant biotechnology.
1939Dale T. Mortensen, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2014)[†]
Dale Thomas Mortensen was an American economist, a professor at Northwestern University, and a winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
1939Amanda McKittrick Ros, Irish author and poet (born 1860)[†]
Anna Margaret Ross, known by her pen-name Amanda McKittrick Ros, was an Irish writer. She published her first novel Irene Iddesleigh at her own expense in 1897. However, it was reprinted by Nonesuch Press in 1926; the reprint sold out immediately. She wrote poetry and a number of novels. She has been described as a "writer with an immense power of words but uncertain use of them."
1939Bernhard Gregory, Estonian-German chess player (born 1879)[†]
Bernhard Gregory was a Baltic German chess master.