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Fed Trade Comm rept to Sen says U S Steel Corp and Bethlehem Steel Co dominate code; charges price fixing and pursuit of practices outlawed in 1924
Press comment on revelations regarding arming of factions; civil strife feared; appeal to Govt to take action
Intervenes to postpone strike; A F L representatives agree to hold confs under his auspices; illus
1934Al Freeman, Jr., American actor and director (died 2012)[†]
Albert Cornelius Freeman Jr. was an American actor, director, and educator. A life member of The Actors Studio, Freeman appeared in a wide variety of plays, ranging from Leroi Jones' Slave/Toilet to Joe Papp's revivals of Long Day's Journey Into Night and Troilus and Cressida, and films, including My Sweet Charlie, Finian's Rainbow, and Malcolm X, as well as television series The Mod Squad, Kojak, and Maude, and a long-running role on the soap opera One Life to Live.
1934Franz Schreker, Austrian composer and conductor (born 1878)[†]
Franz Schreker was an Austrian composer, conductor, librettist, teacher and administrator. Primarily a composer of operas, Schreker developed a style characterized by aesthetic plurality, timbral experimentation, strategies of extended tonality and conception of total music theatre into the narrative of 20th-century music.
1934Lilyan Tashman, American actress (born 1896)[†]
Lilyan Tashman was an American stage, silent film, and sound film actress.
1934The landmark Australian Eastern Mission led by John Latham departs on its three-month tour of East and South-East Asia.[†]
The Australian Eastern Mission (AEM) was a 1934 diplomatic tour of East and South-East Asia led by Australian deputy prime minister John Latham. The mission was the first such official tour sent by Australia outside of the British Empire and has been seen as a landmark in Australian foreign policy and engagement with Asia.