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H L Leister testifies on co's profits from 1917-1924, at trial of Parker Rustproof Co's suit for alleged infringement of patent in use of rustproofing process
Wins several Democratic votes for ratification of French debt deal
Repub organization plan to defer action on Frontier Corp's application for 50-yr lease of site in St Lawrence River, in fear that Dems will make it a campaign issue
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1926Allen Ginsberg, American poet (died 1997)[†]
Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions.
1926Flora MacDonald, Canadian banker and politician, 10th Canadian Minister of Communications (died 2015)[†]
Flora Isabel MacDonald was a Canadian politician and humanitarian. Canada's first female foreign minister, she was also one of the first women to vie for leadership of a major Canadian political party, the Progressive Conservatives. She became a close ally of Prime Minister Joe Clark, serving in his cabinet from 1979 to 1980, as well as in the cabinet of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney from 1984 to 1988. In her later life, she was known for her humanitarian work abroad. Jimmy Carter has said that 90% of the contribution to freeing American hostages in Iran should be attributed to her and Kenneth D. Taylor. The City of Ottawa recognised MacDonald on July 11, 2018, by naming a new bicycle and footbridge over the Rideau Canal the Flora Footbridge.