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August 30, 1939

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TRANSIT BODY VOTES CITY PLAN TO BUY I.R.T FOR $151,248,187; Unification of Vast System Under City Operation by Next Year Predicted OTHER CONSENTS LIKELY Commission Action on Project 2 to 1, With Haskell Against It Because of Price

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The Transit Commission announced yesterday approval of the city's plan to purchase the properties of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company and the Manhattan Railway Company for $151,248,187, thus bringing toward an expected ...

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CHAMBERLAIN FIRM; United House Backs Him in the Resolve to Hold Fast Against Nazis HITLER WILLING TO TALK But His Reply Says Demands Must Be Granted in Advance --Insists on Wide Claims

By Ferdinand Kuhn Jr. Special Cable To the New Times

LONDON, Wednesday, Aug. 30.-- Chancellor Hitler's answer to Britain is in London this morning and it will be considered by the Cabinet later in the day. Its contents are being wrapped in elaborate secrecy, like all the diplomatic interchanges between Berlin and London in the last few days.

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Notable Births

Elizabeth Ashley

1939Elizabeth Ashley, American actress[†]

Elizabeth Ann Cole, known professionally as Elizabeth Ashley, is an American actress of theatre, film, and television. She has been nominated for three Tony Awards, winning once in 1962 for Take Her, She's Mine. Ashley was also nominated for the BAFTA and Golden Globe awards for her supporting performance in The Carpetbaggers (1964), and was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1991 for Evening Shade. Elizabeth was a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 24 times. She appeared in several episodes of In the Heat of the Night as Maybelle Chesboro. She also appeared in an episode of Mannix, "The Dark Hours", in 1974. She is a 2024 inductee into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

John Peel

1939John Peel, English radio host and producer (died 2004)[†]

John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, better known as John Peel, was an English radio presenter and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original disc jockeys on BBC Radio 1, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004.