A Fuhrmann, J Holzer, R Meissner, O Klein, R Paetz, A Dutine, R Becker, F S Gordon, Nazis, to be tried; indictment text; Foreign Min A Guani gives out text of note to German Min O Langmann on J Dalldorf and other Nazi activities

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SPELLMAN PLEADS FOR ARMED NATION TO SAVE OUR PEACE; We Can No Longer Be Moles or Ostriches, Archbishop Tells the Legion at Boston ASSAILS RAPACITY ABROAD Veterans' Executive Committee -Demands Big Army Rise-- Convention On Today

By Craig Thompson Special To the New York Times

Amer Legion exec com urges FCC to bar radio facilities to all groups subservient to foreign govts

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1940Michel Temer, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 25th Vice President of Brazil^[†]

Michel Miguel Elias Temer Lulia is a Brazilian politician, lawyer and writer who served as the 37th president of Brazil from 31 August 2016 to 1 January 2019. He took office after the impeachment and removal from office of his predecessor Dilma Rousseff. He had been the 24th vice president since 2011 and acting president since 12 May 2016, when Rousseff's powers and duties were suspended pending an impeachment trial.

1940Dick Thornett, Australian rugby player and water polo player (died 2011)^[†]

Richard Norman Thornett was one of five Australians to have represented their country in three sports. He was an Olympic water polo player before becoming a rugby league and rugby union player – a dual code international representative.

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1940Hale Holden, American businessman (born 1869)^[†]

Hale Holden was president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q) from 1914 to 1918 and 1920 to 1929, and chairman of the board of directors for Southern Pacific Railroad from 1932 to 1939. He was one of the lawyers working for James J. Hill's defense team in the Minnesota Rate Cases. In later years he served as a director for a number of large companies including American Telephone & Telegraph, New York Life Insurance Company and the Chemical Bank & Trust.

Headlines from September 23, 1940

R.A.F. Bombers and Storm Potnnd the 'Invasion Ports'; R.A.F. BOMBS RAGE ON INVASION PORTS

Kennedy Plans to Resign Within 2 or 3 Months

Locomotive Breads Loose From Cars on Run Here

URUGUAY WILL TRY NAZIS AS PLOTTERS; Party and Its Chiefs Indicted for Scheme to Seize Nation as a Colony of the Reich

SPELLMAN PLEADS FOR ARMED NATION TO SAVE OUR PEACE; We Can No Longer Be Moles or Ostriches, Archbishop Tells the Legion at Boston ASSAILS RAPACITY ABROAD Veterans' Executive Committee -Demands Big Army Rise-- Convention On Today

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