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Stock price drops, London
Assemblyman Moffat to offer bill asking pay cuts for teachers and other employes; other provision; explains bill; J Marshall comments
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Dr. Joseph Jablonower's appointment as an examiner in the Board of Education at a salary of $11,000 a year was ordered canceled yesterday in a unanimous decree of the Appellate Division.
A A Zhdanoff, Soviet leader, charges Brit is stalling on pact hoping for deal with aggressors, Pravda article; But believed ready to guarantee Baltic States in new instructions sent to Seeds
1939Tony Hatch, English pianist, composer, and producer[†]
Anthony Peter Hatch is an English composer for musical theatre and television. He is also a songwriter, pianist, arranger and producer.
1939Barry Hines, English author and screenwriter (died 2016)[†]
Melvin Barry Hines, FRSL was an English author, playwright and screenwriter. His novels and screenplays explore the political and economic struggles of working-class Northern England, particularly in his native West Riding/South Yorkshire.
1939José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican poet and author (died 2014)[†]
José Emilio Pacheco Berny was a Mexican poet, essayist, novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the second half of the 20th century. The Berlin International Literature Festival has praised him as "one of the most significant contemporary Latin American poets". In 2009 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize for his literary oeuvre.