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April 27, 1939

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CITY'S TAX BUDGET CUT TO $587,518,638; LEVY KEPT AT $2.80; Slash of $2,461,938 From Last Year--Total for 1939-40 Is $684,396,271 EDUCATION HEADS SCORED Highly Paid Members of Board Assailed for Refusing to Take Salary Slashes Morris Scores Education Heads Isaacs Adds Criticism CITY'S TAX BUDGET CUT TO $587,518,638

By Unknown Author

scores educ officials for refusal to take pay cuts, Estimate Bd hearing

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571 PLANES BOUGHT AS THE PRESIDENT SIGNS ARMY BILL; Record $50,000,000 Aircraft Order Given Within an Hour After Executive's Action TESTS OF OFFICERS ASKED Law Sought on Physical Fitness--Roosevelt for Speedon Navy Air Bases Fund Largest Since A.E.F. Days 571 ARMY PLANES ORDERED IN RUSH May Affect the National Guard Roosevelt Is Said to Approve Sunnyvale Air Research Rejected LINDBERGH SPEEDS SURVEY Reaches Indianapolis in Study of Army Resources

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

flies to Indianapolis

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BUDGET LUMP PLAN UNCONSTITUTIONAL, BENNETT DECLARES; ASSEMBLY DEFIANT Advances Bills in Spite of Argument Condemning Its ProgramCOURT TEST IS EXPECTEDRepublicans Hint Intent toPass Measure Tomorrowand Wait for Decision Budget Bills Are Advanced Legislative Act of 1929 Recalled BENNETT CONDEMNS BUDGET LUMP PLAN Pivotal Point Is Forecast

By Warren Moscow Special To the New York Times

Atty Gen Bennett rules Repub lump sum plan unconst; ct test likely as Repubs indicate intent to proceed despite Lehman's plea for delay; Assembly advances bills

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BASIC AGREEMENT REACHED ON CROATS; Matchek Is to See Advisers Before Signing Yugoslav Autonomy Pact Bosnia Is Kept Intact Provinces to Have Cabinets BASIC AGREEMENT REACHED ON CROATS Matchek Defers Signing

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

signed

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PRIVILEGES SOUGHT; Reich Wants Kaunas to Revise Trade Pacts in Berlin's Favor FOR FREER HAND IN BUYING Move Seen as Monopoly Step --Poland Puts Onus on the Germans for Rift Reich Presses Lithuania 3 DEMANDS HANDED TO KAUNAS BY REICH Treaty With Rumania

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Lithuania asked to revise pacts in Germany's favor

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1939Judy Carne, English actress and comedian (died 2015)^[†]

Joyce Audrey Botterill, known professionally as Judy Carne, was an English actress. She appeared on American television in the late 1960s in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, where she employed the catch phrase "Sock it to me!".

1939Stanisław Dziwisz, Polish cardinal^[†]

Stanisław Jan Dziwisz is a Polish Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Kraków from 2005 to 2016. He was created a cardinal in 2006. He was a long-time and influential aide to Pope John Paul II, a friend of Pope Benedict XVI, and an ardent supporter of John Paul II's beatification.

Headlines from April 27, 1939

BASIC AGREEMENT REACHED ON CROATS; Matchek Is to See Advisers Before Signing Yugoslav Autonomy Pact Bosnia Is Kept Intact Provinces to Have Cabinets BASIC AGREEMENT REACHED ON CROATS Matchek Defers Signing

PRIVILEGES SOUGHT; Reich Wants Kaunas to Revise Trade Pacts in Berlin's Favor FOR FREER HAND IN BUYING Move Seen as Monopoly Step --Poland Puts Onus on the Germans for Rift Reich Presses Lithuania 3 DEMANDS HANDED TO KAUNAS BY REICH Treaty With Rumania

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