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April 28, 1939

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BID WAS REJECTED; President Acted Some Months Ago, Ready to Be Intermediary SOUNDED OUT MUSSOLINI But Hitler Replied That He Could Not Arrange to Leavs Europe to State Terms Roosevelt Plan Disclosed Move Made Some Months Ago ROOSEVELT SOUGHT TO MEET DICTATORS Ballyhoo" Charge Refuted Altered Concept Later

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Krock on Roosevelt proposal to meet Hitler and Mussolini at sea for conf

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FAIR NEARLY READY FOR GALA OPENING; 30,000 RUSH WORK; Exposition's Wonders Emerge in Final Form as Forces Labor Day and Night 20,000 TO BE IN PAGEANT President's Plans Are Changed to Omit Drive Through the Grounds Before Speech

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With painters, carpenters and other artisans putting the finishing touches on buildings and exhibits, gardeners planting trees and shrubbery, ...

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WPA ROLL REDUCED; $1,477,000,000 Sought to Care for 2,000,000, With Costs a Third Less CONGRESS TO PUSH BILLS Byrnes and Woodrum Are Determined to Press for a Different Policy $12,490,000 Asked for 3 Agencies Byrnes's Proposal Criticized 1940 RELIEF IS SET AT $1,750,000,000 He Upholds Relief Measures

By Henry N. Dorris Special To the New York Times

Roosevelt asks funds for continuation

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Chamberlain Upheld, 376 to 145; Labor Loath to Risk an Election; Prime Minister Hints at Levy on Wealth and Limit on War Profits--Exempt Lists Revised, Freeing 1,500,000 for Service

By Ferdinand Kuhn Jr. Special Cable To the New York Times

Opposes gen election

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EDUCATORS DRAFT 'ANTI-RED' TICKET; College Union Insurgents to Carry Fight to Vote--Move Assailed as 'Pointless' Communism Held Sole Issue EDUCATORS DRAFT 'ANTI-RED' TICKET Close Fight" Predicted 150 Nominations Made

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On formation of Coll Teachers Union rival slate

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Notable Deaths

1939Anne Walter Fearn, American physician (born 1867)^[†]

Anne Walter Fearn was an American physician who went to Shanghai, China, on a temporary posting in 1893, and remained there for 40 years.