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February 28, 1939

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Headlines from February 28, 1939

21 FAIR ADVISERS ON CONSUMER QUIT; Charge Curbing of Powers and Misuse of Their Names to Promote Exhibits

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21 on N Y World's Fair Consumer Advisory Com resign; charge curbing of consumer program

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BOARD DENOUNCED; Its Order to Re-employ Fansteel Strikers Is Held High-Handed LABOR DECISIONS BY 5 TO 2 Reed and Black Dissenters-- Stone With Majority--Frankfurter Takes No Part

By Lewis Wood Special To the New York Times

U S Sup Ct outlaws sit-down strike, rejects NDRB reinstatement order, Fansteel Metallurgical Corp-Amalgamated Assn of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of Amer case

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Capitol Sees Labor Act Changes As One of Hopkins Recovery Aims; Plan Held Revealed in Request for Data in Senate Committee's Hands--Hearings Put Off Pending Labor Peace Moves

By Henry N. Dorris Special To the New York Times

Asks Sen com for data on proposed Wagner Act changes; expected to make recommendations

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HANLEY IS ELECTED TO PITCHER'S POST; Defeats Feinberg as Albany Republicans Choose New Senate Floor Leader

By Warren Moscow Special To the New York Times

Sen Hanley elected despite Repub leaders' plea for Feinberg

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LONDON AND PARIS RECOGNIZE FRANCO; GET 'ASSURANCES'; M.P.'S CRY 'SHAME' Chamberlain Refuses to Reveal Guarantees of a Free Spain BRITONS TO DEBATE TODAY Censure Motion Is Scheduled --United States Decision Is Left to Roosevelt

By Ferdinand Kuhn Jr. Wireless To the New York Times

LONDON, Feb. 27.--Unconditional recognition of the Franco regime in Spain was announced in the House of Commons today by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.

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1939Daniel C. Tsui, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate^[†]

Daniel Chee Tsui is an American physicist. He is currently serving as the Professor of Electrical Engineering, emeritus, at Princeton University. Tsui's areas of research include electrical properties of thin films and microstructures of semiconductors and solid-state physics.

1939Tommy Tune, American actor, dancer, singer, theatre director, producer, and choreographer^[†]

Thomas James Tune is an American actor, dancer, singer, theatre director, producer, and choreographer. Over the course of his career, he has won ten Tony Awards, the National Medal of Arts, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Headlines from February 28, 1939

21 FAIR ADVISERS ON CONSUMER QUIT; Charge Curbing of Powers and Misuse of Their Names to Promote Exhibits

BOARD DENOUNCED; Its Order to Re-employ Fansteel Strikers Is Held High-Handed LABOR DECISIONS BY 5 TO 2 Reed and Black Dissenters-- Stone With Majority--Frankfurter Takes No Part

Capitol Sees Labor Act Changes As One of Hopkins Recovery Aims; Plan Held Revealed in Request for Data in Senate Committee's Hands--Hearings Put Off Pending Labor Peace Moves

HANLEY IS ELECTED TO PITCHER'S POST; Defeats Feinberg as Albany Republicans Choose New Senate Floor Leader

LONDON AND PARIS RECOGNIZE FRANCO; GET 'ASSURANCES'; M.P.'S CRY 'SHAME' Chamberlain Refuses to Reveal Guarantees of a Free Spain BRITONS TO DEBATE TODAY Censure Motion Is Scheduled --United States Decision Is Left to Roosevelt

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