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July 11, 1939

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CHAMBERLAIN BARS ANY COUP IN DANZIG; PLEDGE IS SWEEPING; Warns Even Internal Change There Could Put Guarantee to Poland Into Operation LOOPHOLES NOW CLOSED Talks Ruled Out in the Present Atmosphere--Outlook on the Soviet Pact More Hopeful

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Chamberlain announces Brit pledge on Danzig, Commons; Anglo-Polish financial delegates meet

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$2,660,000,000 Lending Measure Is Offered, and Meets Quick Fire; Foreign Credits Item Omitted, but Critics Assail 'Glorified Pork Barrel,' Its Toll Roads and Powers for President

By Charles W. Hurd Special To the New York Times

Fed lending-spending bill: offered in both houses; rural electrification plan included

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MANY FACE OUSTER; First Dismissals for FiveDay Absence Are DueHere TonightFIGHT PRESSED BY UNIONSGreen Warns A.F.L. Will Take Revenge at Polls Unless Old Wages Are Restored

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W Green threatens reprisals unless Cong restores WPA prevailing wage rates

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FRANCO COURT GIVES BESTEIRO 30 YEARS; Leader of Madrid Council in Last Days of War Guilty of 'Prolonging' Conflict

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MADRID, July 10.-- Professor Julian Besteiro, who was convicted by a military tribunal of "helping prolong the Spanish civil war," was sentenced today to thirty years' imprisonment.

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BAR TOLD BY HOGAN COURT IS SHIFTING; Nation Must Rely on Congress, He Says, but Jackson Hails New Deal Decisions

By Lewis Wood Special To the New York Times

Recent shifts in Const interpretation assailed by F J Hogan, defended by Solicitor Gen Jackson

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