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March 27, 1940

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Headlines from March 27, 1940

BLANKET IMMUNITY UNDER TRUST LAWS IS DENIED TO UNIONS; District Court at Capital Upholds Indictments in Jurisdictional Case CLAYTON CLAUSE DEFINED Ruling Handed Down as C.I.O. Counsel Gives Conflicting View to High Bench

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Internatl Teamsters Brotherhood (AFL) case ruling cited; League's brief contends unions are not subject to anti-trust laws

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FOLEY SAYS SLAYING OF PENN IS SOLVED; Man Who 'Placed Guns in Murder Car' Ends Defiance andGoes Before Grand Jury

By Unknown Author

Foley says Penn slaying is fully solved; Black aids police; vagrancy charges against Workman and Tannenbaum dismissed; Workman held in high bail as witness in J Rosen murder; Tannenbaum to be removed to Sullivan County; Mrs Frosch and A Cohen released in bail; I Cohen to be returned to N Y

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PARI-MUTUEL BILL PASSED BY SENATE; WILL BE AMENDED; LEHMAN PLEA WINS Assembly Committee Favors Commission in Its Present Form PACE FAST AS END NEARS Both Houses Speed Up to Assure Adjournment by Friday or Saturday

By Warren Moscow Special To the New York Times

proposal for additional field agents reptd by Assembly com

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Report of U-Boat Base in Orient Stirs Allies; Soviet Said to Give Nazis a Bay on Japan Sea; NAZI U-BOAT BASE IN EAST REPORTED

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Allies in Far East fear U-boat raids following rumors that USSR has given Germany base on Japan Sea; Wash reaction; map

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Government Triumphs in Canada; Landslide Exceeds That of 1935; Mackenzie King Increases House Majority --Manion Beaten in His Own District --Weather Cuts Down Total Vote

By Frederick T. Birchall By Telephone To the New York Times

Quoted by Prime Min King

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1940Sandro Munari, Italian race car driver^[†]

Sandro Munari, also nicknamed 'Il Drago' is a former motor racing and rally driver from Italy.

1940Austin Pendleton, American actor, director, and playwright^[†]

Austin Campbell Pendleton is an American actor, playwright, theatre director, and instructor.

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1940Michael Joseph Savage, Australian-New Zealand politician, 23rd Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1872)^[†]

Michael Joseph Savage was an Australian-born New Zealand politician who served as the 23rd prime minister of New Zealand, heading the First Labour Government from 1935 until his death in 1940.

1940Dan Kolov, Bulgarian professional wrestler (born 1892)^[†]

Doncho Kolev Danev, better known by the ring name Dan Kolov, was a Bulgarian professional wrestler born in Sennik, Bulgaria who was the first European freestyle wrestling champion from Bulgaria. He is also famously known for rejecting the offer to become a bodyguard for one of the most powerful mobsters in history Al Capone

Headlines from March 27, 1940

BLANKET IMMUNITY UNDER TRUST LAWS IS DENIED TO UNIONS; District Court at Capital Upholds Indictments in Jurisdictional Case CLAYTON CLAUSE DEFINED Ruling Handed Down as C.I.O. Counsel Gives Conflicting View to High Bench

FOLEY SAYS SLAYING OF PENN IS SOLVED; Man Who 'Placed Guns in Murder Car' Ends Defiance andGoes Before Grand Jury

PARI-MUTUEL BILL PASSED BY SENATE; WILL BE AMENDED; LEHMAN PLEA WINS Assembly Committee Favors Commission in Its Present Form PACE FAST AS END NEARS Both Houses Speed Up to Assure Adjournment by Friday or Saturday

Report of U-Boat Base in Orient Stirs Allies; Soviet Said to Give Nazis a Bay on Japan Sea; NAZI U-BOAT BASE IN EAST REPORTED

Government Triumphs in Canada; Landslide Exceeds That of 1935; Mackenzie King Increases House Majority --Manion Beaten in His Own District --Weather Cuts Down Total Vote

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