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May 1, 1939

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CITY AND THE FLEET TAKE TURN AS HOST; VISITORS GET FIRST-HAND VIEW OF FLEET IN THE HUDSON

By Hanson W. Baldwin

Participates in opening N Y World's Fair ceremonies

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LIGHT AUTO TRAFFIC SURPRISE TO POLICE; Elaborate System to Cope With Expected Snarls on Roads Goes Unused Policeman Is Injured TRAFFIC IS LIGHT, SURPRISING POLICE Few Children Are Lost

By Unknown Author

Hoffman, L, hurt

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Poles to Use Hitler Tactics; Poland to Make Demands

By Jerzy Szapiro Wireless To the New York Times

WARSAW, Poland, April 30.-- The German memorandum delivered to the Polish Foreign Office on Friday while Chancellor Adolf Hitler was attacking Poland will be answered in the same manner. A Polish memorandum, repudiating the German accusation and rejecting ...

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ROOSEVELT SPEAKS; He Sees Nations of This Hemisphere United in Desire for Peace U.S. DEMOCRACY STRONG Exposition Here and in West Born of Singleness of the American Ideal, He Says

By Felix Belair Jr

N Y World's Fair: with wife and party attends opening

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RUSSIAN AVIATORS, RESCUED,ARRIVE; Two Who Crashed in Canada Here in American Plane-- One Fainted During Flight

By Unknown Author

Kokkinaki and Gordienko brought to N Y C by rescue plane

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1939Judy Collins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist^[†]

Judith Marjorie Collins is an American singer-songwriter and musician with a career spanning nearly seven decades. An Academy Award-nominated documentary director and a Grammy Award-winning recording artist, she is known for her eclectic tastes in the material she records, for her social activism, and for the clarity of her voice. Her discography consists of 36 studio albums, nine live albums, numerous compilation albums, four holiday albums, and 21 singles.

Headlines from May 1, 1939

CITY AND THE FLEET TAKE TURN AS HOST; VISITORS GET FIRST-HAND VIEW OF FLEET IN THE HUDSON

LIGHT AUTO TRAFFIC SURPRISE TO POLICE; Elaborate System to Cope With Expected Snarls on Roads Goes Unused Policeman Is Injured TRAFFIC IS LIGHT, SURPRISING POLICE Few Children Are Lost

Poles to Use Hitler Tactics; Poland to Make Demands

ROOSEVELT SPEAKS; He Sees Nations of This Hemisphere United in Desire for Peace U.S. DEMOCRACY STRONG Exposition Here and in West Born of Singleness of the American Ideal, He Says

RUSSIAN AVIATORS, RESCUED,ARRIVE; Two Who Crashed in Canada Here in American Plane-- One Fainted During Flight

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