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November 28, 1939

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DIES IS TOLD REDS RUN TEACHER UNION; Control Here Is Called Strong --Mrs. Roosevelt Says She Is Willing to Testify Testifies on Teachers Local DIES IS TOLD REDS RUN TEACHER UNION Denial for Student Union

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.Times Wide World

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NAVY TO CONSTRUCT BIG AIR BASE HERE FOR COAST PATROL; Site for Housing 24 Seaplanes Adjacent to Floyd Bennett Field to Be Ceded by City TO BE READY BY MARCH 1 La Guardia Praises Project as Strengthening Defense of City in Emergency

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Announces planned naval base near Floyd Bennett Field

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MOSCOW REBUFFED; Finns Refuse to Leave Border, Denying They Fired on Russians MIXED INQUIRY IS ASKED Britain's Hope for a Peaceful Settlement Is Conveyed to Soviet by Halifax Conversations Are Invited Backing for Finland Hinted FINLAND REBUFFS SOVIET ON RETREAT Democracies Held Inconsistent Events in Rapid Sequence

By G.e.r. Gedye Wireless To the New York Times

Told by Lord Halifax of Brit hopes of amicable USSR-Finnish settlement

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The International Situation

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BRITISH 'LIES' LURED POLES ON, NAZIS SAY; Treacherous Two-Faced Game Is Held Revealed in London Blue Book on War's Origin BRITISH 'LIES' LURED POLES ON, NAZIS SAY

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German Govt in reply to Brit Blue Book charges Brit forced Poland into war by false statements

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1939James Naismith, Canadian-American physician and educator, created basketball (born 1861)^[†]

James Naismith was a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, Christian chaplain, and sports coach, best known as the inventor of the game of basketball.