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SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Oct. 16-- A criminal district court grand jury today returned five felony and ten misdemeanor indictments charging poll tax irregularities against Mayor Maury Maverick, former Representative and New Deal exponent.
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German planes bomb Brit fleet, Firth of Forth at Rosyth
MOSCOW, Oct. 16--Turkish Foreign Minister Shukru Saracoglu was received by Premier and Foreign Commissar Vyacheslaff M. Molotoff again at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The conference ended two hours later.
1939Oliver Rackham, English botanist and academic (died 2015)[†]
Oliver Rackham was an academic at the University of Cambridge who studied the ecology, management and development of the British countryside, especially trees, woodlands and wood pasture. His books included Ancient Woodland (1980) and The History of the Countryside (1986).