Saturday, January 29, 1944

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The Headlines

SUPPORT LINED UP FOR A RECORD POLL ON VOTE BILL RULE; House Group Musters Pledges to Force Issue on Question of Soldier Balloting ROLL-CALL BAN SEEN NOW But Backers of Federal Plan Lack Strength to Be Sure of Overruling Committee

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My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart?)

Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra with Eugenie Baird

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On This Day

• World War II: In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is completely destroyed in an air-raid.

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• World War II: Approximately 38 people are killed and about a dozen injured when the Polish village of Koniuchy (present-day Kaniūkai, Lithuania) is attacked by Soviet partisan units.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Anton Chekhov (1860)
• William McKinley (1843)
• Romain Rolland (1866)
• Abdus Salam (1926)
• Emanuel Swedenborg (1688)

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Tech Check

Harvard Mark I Computer, Kidney Dialysis Machine & Synthesized Quinine.

Cost of Living (1940)