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March 1, 1940

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CITY BARS 12 SHOPS FROM PRINTING BIDS; Purchase Commissioner Acts After Herlands Submits Proof of Collusion

By Unknown Author

Named to aid State printing inquiry

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LEFT WINGERS WIN LABOR PARTY RULE IN COUNTY SESSION; Anti-Rose Faction Is Victor at Stormy Meeting Held Under Court Order TEST VOTE 455 TO 314 Then Slate Headed by Eugene Connolly Is Elected Amid Shouting and Confusion

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Left wing faction headed by E P Connolly wins control of N Y County com at meeting held under ct supervision; Rose attacks Progressive Com as Communist group in his affidavit against Com's injunction suit

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France to Start Food Rationing; Use of Alcohol and Gasoline Cut; Decrees Provide Slash in Consumption and Aids to Production--Gold Is Revalorized --Reynaud Notes Economic Peril

By P.j. Philip Wireless To the New York Times

Repts to Sen on 1939 deficit

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HOOVER BACKS BILL FOR POLISH RELIEF; Tells House Body U.S. Should Provide Up to $20,000,000 to Help Feed 7,000,000

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Aid to Poland: Mead-Kee resolutions on Polish relief appropriation offered, Cong

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NO NAZI PEACE PLAN; But Visit Is Welcomed as Chance to Explain Reich's War Aims PRESS SUGGESTS TERMS Recognition of 'Lebensraum,' Return of Colonies and End of 'Plutocracy'

By Otto D. Tolischus Wireless To the New York Times

Under-Sec Welles Berlin visit plans; Berlin press continues war issues and peace terms discussions and explains Poland and Czecho-Slovakia annexation; Welles conf with Min to Switzerland Harrison

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Notable Births

1940Robin Gray, Australian politician, 37th Premier of Tasmania^[†]

Robin Trevor Gray is an Australian former politician who was Premier of Tasmania from 1982 to 1989. A Liberal, he was elected Liberal state leader in 1981 and in 1982 defeated the Labor government of Harry Holgate on a policy of "state development," particularly the building of the Franklin Dam, a hydroelectric dam on the Franklin River. He was only the second non-Labor premier to hold the post in 48 years, and the first in 51 years to govern in majority.

1940Robert Grossman, American painter, sculptor, and author (died 2018)^[†]

Robert Samuel Grossman was an American painter, sculptor, filmmaker, comics artist, illustrator and author. He is a member of The Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame.

Notable Deaths

1940A. H. Tammsaare, Estonian author (born 1878)^[†]

Anton Hansen, better known by his pseudonym A. H. Tammsaare and its variants, was an Estonian writer whose pentalogy Truth and Justice is considered one of the major works of Estonian literature and "The Estonian Novel".