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Gen Motors Corp and 3 financing subsidiaries convicted of anti-trust law violation; 17 persons cleared
Treats A Capone
Rumanian plan for bloc balked; Yugoslavia shuns bloc
Bklyn count nearly complete; tabulation; correction
ALBANY , Nov. 18--The State Senate, by a majority of 28 to 19, declined today to remove Kings County Judge George W. Martin from the bench, as recommended to the Senate by Governor Lehman on charges presented by a special grand jury in Brooklyn.
1939Auberon Waugh, English journalist and author (died 2001)[†]
Auberon Alexander Waugh was a British journalist and novelist, and eldest son of the novelist Evelyn Waugh. He was widely known by his nickname "Bron".
1939Nine Czech students are executed as a response to anti-Nazi demonstrations prompted by the death of Jan Opletal. All Czech universities are shut down and more than 1,200 students sent to concentration camps. Since this event, International Students' Day is celebrated in many countries, especially in the Czech Republic.[†]
The Czechs, or the Czech people, are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history, and the Czech language.