Senate Votes Bill Aimed At Moses's Fair Powers
By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Assembly passes bill to permit foreign envoys to use cars on World's Fair grounds without license
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On this day
May 3, 1939
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3 ARE FOUND GUILTY IN PASSPORT FRAUD; Each Faces 2 Years in Prison and $10,000 Fine--Mystery Over Spy Unsolved
By Unknown Author
3 convicted
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WPA Costs Here 2 Times Those Of Private Builders, Experts Say; Treasury Engineers, Lent to House Inquiry, Report Ratio in Some Instances--Most Work on Fair Building Non-Relief
By Henry N. Dorris Special To the New York Times
Testifies, House subcom WPA inquiry hearing
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City Tax Payment Is Largest on Record; Interest Rate on Bond Issue Is Lowest
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Bond issue awarded
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Reich Bars Cards Showing Chamberlain With Hitler
By the Associated Press
Reich bans sale of postcards with pors of Hitler and Chamberlain taken at Godesberg last Sept
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Notable Deaths
1939Madeleine Desroseaux, French author and poet (born 1873)[†]
Madeleine Desroseaux is the pseudonym of Florentine Monier (1873-1939), a Breton poet and novelist.
Historical Events
1939The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.[†]
The All India Forward Bloc is a left-wing nationalist political party in India. It emerged as a faction within the Indian National Congress in 1939, led by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, and was strongest in West Bengal. The party re-established as an independent political party after the independence of India. During the 1951–1952 and 1957 Indian general election, the party was known as Forward Bloc. The party's current Secretary-General is G. Devarajan. Veteran Indian politicians Sarat Chandra Bose and Chitta Basu had been the stalwarts of the party in independent India.