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Roosevelt directs Hull to sign treaty; decision acclaimed
Incorporated in Del by Secs Ickes and Wallace and H L Hopkins; members increased to include H Morgenthau Jr and W I Meyers; broadest in scope of all recovery units, empowered to exercise all powers of PWA, AAA and FERA; coordination of entire farm program indicated; some question legality
1933Jackie Hendriks, Jamaican cricketer[†]
John Leslie Hendriks is a former Jamaican cricketer who was a Test wicket-keeper in the West Indies cricket team from 1962 to 1969.
1933Robert Worcester, American businessman and academic, founded MORI[†]
Sir Robert Milton Worcester, was an American-born British pollster who was the founder of MORI and a member and contributor to many voluntary organisations. He was a well-known figure in British public opinion research and political circles and as a media commentator, especially about voting intentions in British and American elections.
1933Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (born 1879)[†]
Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen was a Greenlandic-Danish polar explorer and anthropologist. He has been called the "father of Eskimology" and was the first European to cross the Northwest Passage via dog sled. He remains well known in Greenland, Denmark and among Canadian Inuit.