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ROME, Dec. 4. -- The proposed embargo on oil exports to Italy still is the chief topic of conversation here, but much of the tenseness has been taken out of the situation by the declaration by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes that he had not banned oil exports.
Announces plans for rescue of L Ellsworth
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Conf with Roosevelt on farm problems
1935Calvin Trillin, American novelist, humorist, and journalist[†]
Calvin Marshall Trillin is an American journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, memoirist and novelist. He is a winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor (2012) and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2008).
1935Yury Vlasov, Ukrainian-Russian weightlifter and politician (died 2021)[†]
Yury Petrovich Vlasov was a Soviet and Russian heavyweight weightlifter, writer and politician. He competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a gold medal in 1960 and a silver in 1964; at both games, he was the Olympic flag bearer for the Soviet Union. During his career, Vlasov won four world titles and set 31 ratified world records. He retired in 1968 and became a prominent writer and later a politician. He was a member of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union (1989) and then of the Russian State Duma (1993) and took part in the 1996 Russian presidential election.
1935Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women in New York City.[†]
Mary McLeod Bethune was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, and proceeded to establish the Aframerican Women's Journal, which was the flagship journal of the organization. She presided over other African-American women's organizations, including the National Association for Colored Women. Bethune became the first Black woman to lead a federal agency when she was appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt as the Secretary to lead the National Youth Association (NYA).