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September 1, 1940

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Large Scarsdale Home Sold

By Unknown Author

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Reopening of Cramp Shipyards Mapped in Reorganization Plan; Slipways and Engine Works Would Pass to New Company--Move Inspired by Secretary of the Navy

By Unknown Author

Reorganization plan involving Amer Ship & Commerce Corp, Merchant Sterling Corp, Orama Securities Corp and formation of new Cramp Shipbldg Co

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Entertainments Center Around Championship; Many Parties Will Be Given At First of National Open Matches on Saturday

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

WESTBURY, L.I., Aug. 31--International Field at the Meadow Brook Club here is expected to be the scene of a gathering of members of society from several parts of the East and the North and South ...

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Parties Mark the Conclusion Of Racing at Saratoga Track; Bad Weather Fails to Deter Society Throng at Spa --John Sloan, William Woodward, Samuel D. Riddle and George H. Bull Entertain

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y., Aug. 31--The first really bad weather of the racing season greeted the large throng of members of society which watched the Hopeful this afternoon.

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A 'WILDERNESS PARADISE' FOR THE NATION; Smokies, 'Roof of Eastern America,' Will Be Dedicated by President Tomorrow

By Isabelle F. Story

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1940Yaşar Büyükanıt, Turkish general (died 2019)^[†]

General Mehmet Yaşar Büyükanıt was the 25th Chief of the Turkish General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces, from 28 August 2006 to 28 August 2008.

1940Annie Ernaux, French author, Nobel Prize laureate^[†]

Annie Thérèse Blanche Ernaux is a French writer who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory". Her literary work, mostly autobiographical, maintains close links with sociology.

Headlines from September 1, 1940

Large Scarsdale Home Sold

Reopening of Cramp Shipyards Mapped in Reorganization Plan; Slipways and Engine Works Would Pass to New Company--Move Inspired by Secretary of the Navy

Entertainments Center Around Championship; Many Parties Will Be Given At First of National Open Matches on Saturday

Parties Mark the Conclusion Of Racing at Saratoga Track; Bad Weather Fails to Deter Society Throng at Spa --John Sloan, William Woodward, Samuel D. Riddle and George H. Bull Entertain

A 'WILDERNESS PARADISE' FOR THE NATION; Smokies, 'Roof of Eastern America,' Will Be Dedicated by President Tomorrow

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