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Pity the poor stock exchange president. He takes office amid a fanfare of optimism. He consults members, Securities and Exchange Commission officials, outsiders interested in the business.
Sends note with telegram from Dr Benes to League of Nations
William Strang, 46-year-old head of the Central European department of the British Foreign Office, prepared last week to leave Whitehall for Moscow, where in 1933 he was counselor of the embassy at the time of the famous Metropolitan-Vickers trial.
Approval by Governor Lehman of the Pack bill to restrict conversions of Class A multiple dwellings for single-room occupancy and setting up new standards for rooming houses and resident clubs ...
GARDEN CITY, L.I., June 10.-- Overcoming the determined bid of an opponent who refused to quit, Mrs. Harry McNaughton of Sound View captured the women's metropolitan golf championship for the second time after a close battle with Mrs. Dewitt Untermeyer Jr. ...
1939Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint, English cricketer and journalist (died 2017)[ā ]
Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint, was an English cricketer, businesswoman, and philanthropist. She was best known for being captain of England from 1966 to 1978, and was unbeaten in six Test series: in total, she played for the English women's cricket team from 1960 to 1982. Heyhoe Flint was captain when her team won the inaugural 1973 Women's Cricket World Cup, which England hosted. She was also the first female cricketer to hit a six in a Test match, and one of the first ten women to become a member of the MCC.
1939Jackie Stewart, Scottish racing driver and sports presenter[ā ]
Sir John Young Stewart is a British former racing driver, broadcaster and motorsport executive from Scotland who competed in Formula One from 1965 to 1973. Nicknamed "the Flying Scot", Stewart won three Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles with Tyrrell, andāat the time of his retirementāheld the records for most wins (27) and podium finishes (43).