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Scores Roosevelt plan to put postmasters under civil service
In lr to Gov Lehman, says munic economies would maintain needed unemployment relief; opposes tax increases
Will spend Aug at estate, Hyde Pk, N Y
Attacks Brit policies towards Ireland, during discussion of Soviet economic non-aggression pact at World Economic Conf; silenced as irrelevant
1933Robert Bourassa, Canadian lawyer and politician, 22nd Premier of Quebec (died 1996)[†]
Robert Bourassa was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 22nd premier of Quebec from 1970 to 1976 and from 1985 to 1994. A member of the Liberal Party of Quebec, he served a total of just under 15 years as premier. Bourassa's tenure was marked by major events affecting Quebec, including the October Crisis and the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords.
1933Dumaagiin Sodnom, Mongolian politician; 13th Prime Minister of Mongolia[†]
Dumaagiin Sodnom is a Mongolian political figure who served as Prime Minister of Mongolia from 1984 to 1990.
1933In a decree called the Gleichschaltung, Adolf Hitler abolishes all German political parties except the Nazis.[†]
The Nazi term Gleichschaltung, meaning "synchronization" or "coordination", was the process of Nazification by which Adolf Hitler—leader of the Nazi Party in Germany—established a system of totalitarian control and coordination over all aspects of German society "from the economy and trade associations to the media, culture and education".
1933Nazi eugenics programme begins with the proclamation of the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring requiring the compulsory sterilization of any citizen who suffers from alleged genetic disorders.[†]
The social policies of eugenics in Nazi Germany were composed of various ideas about genetics. The racial ideology of Nazism placed the biological improvement of the German people by selective breeding of "Nordic" or "Aryan" traits at its center. These policies were used to justify the involuntary sterilization and mass murder of those deemed "undesirable".