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Green predicts settlement of differences with AFL
anti-aircraft unit illus
Repr Dies repts Cong com has evidence that Axis agents in U S are working to sabotage aid to Brit
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return after sighting warships of unknown nationality operating off Mex coast; freighter Phrygia scuttled and fired by crew; German officers blame Brit; Mex officials see no internatl incident since no shots were fired; U S Navy declines comment on repts warships may have been part of U S Fleet; illus of 4 German ships
1940Luke Kelly, Irish singer, folk musician and actor (died 1984)[†]
Luke Kelly was an Irish singer, folk musician and actor from Dublin, Ireland. Born into a working-class household in Dublin city, Kelly moved to England in his late teens and by his early 20s had become involved in the folk music revival there. Returning to Dublin in the 1960s, he became a founding member of the band The Dubliners in 1962. The Irish Post and other commentators regard Kelly, known for his distinctive singing style and sometimes political messages, as one of Ireland's greatest folk singers.
1940Eric Gill, English sculptor and typeface designer (born 1882)[†]
Arthur Eric Rowton Gill was an English sculptor, letter cutter, typeface designer, and printmaker. Although the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Gill as "the greatest artist-craftsman of the twentieth century: a letter-cutter and type designer of genius", he is also a figure of considerable controversy following the revelations of his sexual abuse of two of his daughters and of his pet dog.
1940Raymond Pearl, American biologist and academic (born 1879)[†]
Raymond Pearl was an American biologist, regarded as one of the founders of biogerontology. He spent most of his career at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Pearl was a prolific writer of academic books, papers and articles, as well as a committed populariser and communicator of science. At his death, 841 publications were listed against his name. An early eugenicist, he eventually became an important critic of eugenics. He also advanced the concept of carrying capacity, although he didn't use the term, and was a Malthusian concerned with resource limits. He was a critic of mass consumption.
1940The Tartu Art Museum is established in Tartu, Estonia.[†]
The Tartu Art Museum is a state-owned museum of art located in Tartu, Estonia. It was founded in 1940 on a private initiative by the members of local art school Pallas. This is the largest art museum in Southern Estonia.