The Archive · 1934

HARRIMAN GIVEN 4% YEARS

New York, June 27.

Mr, Joseph Wright Harriman, former chairman of the Board directors of the Harriman National Bank & Trust Ca, convicted last week of misapplication of $1,600,000 of the bank's funds and falsifying records, was sentenced to-day serve 4% years in the Federal penitentiary—United. Press.

The appointment was announced on June 29 of the Duke of Gloucester, the King's third son, as a Knight lot St. Patrick.—Reuter.

Five persons were injured and] Mr, M. K. Gandhi, Indian nationalist leader, narrowly escaped death on June 25 when a bomb was thrown at 2 motor car arriving at the Town Hall, where he was due to receive an address in. Poon 'Mr, Oliver Stanley, who had been appointed to succeed' Sir Henry Bet-terton as Minister of Labour, brought his career as Minister of Transport to an appropriate end on June 30. when the Road Transport Bill which hho has skilfully piloted through all its Parliamentary stages, passed i's third reading without division.

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