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1932Roh Tae-woo, South Korean general and politician, 6th President of South Korea (died 2021)[†]
Roh Tae-woo was a South Korean army general and politician who served as the sixth president of South Korea from 1988 to 1993. In 1987, he became the first president to be directly elected under the current democratic constitution, which was promulgated after a lengthy period of indirect elections under military governments following the advent of the Yushin Constitution in 1972.
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Salary cuts expected to cause heavy drain on pension fund
Asserting that "the shortage of real money in actual circulation is directly responsible for the major part of the present depression," Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma renewed his plea for "cheapening the dollar" in a letter to Robert M. Harriss of 60 Beaver Street which was made public here yesterday.
44th annual production by Triangle Club planned
War debts and reparations
CINCINNATI, Dec. 3. -- Joe McCluskey, Fordham University star and member of the last United States Olympic team, running with an even, untiring pace, came from behind today in the last half mile to carry the Maroon colors to a sensational victory in the national senior A.A.U. cross-country championship run.
HAVING spent the Summer in Soviet Russia, Elmer Rice has just finished a new play about America which is reported to be his most ambitious work. It will go into almost immediate production, the New York opening being scheduled for mid-January.
The violent language of President Green's speech at the convention of the Federation of Labor has been widely censured as mischievous, and especially mischievous at a time like this. Indeed, one does not venture much in supposing that he himself realizes by this time the futility and harmfulness of such an utterance.