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Charges Hudson County, N J, with violating civil rights of labor
A P Sloan breaks off Wash confs on auto strike after seeing newspaper account of statement
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Sec Hull, in appeal for extension of Trade Agreements Act, holds world peace cannot be maintained without economic peace
1937Alma Delia Fuentes, Mexican actress (died 2017)[â ]
Alma Delia Susana Fuentes GonzĂĄlez was a Mexican actress of film, television, and theatre.
1937EdĂ©n Pastora, Nicaraguan politician (died 2020)[â ]
Edén Atanacio Pastora Gómez was a Nicaraguan politician and guerrilla who ran for president as the candidate of the Alternative for Change (AC) party in the 2006 general elections. In the years prior to the fall of the Somoza regime, Pastora was the leader of the Southern Front, the largest militia in southern Nicaragua, second only to the FSLN in the north. Pastora was nicknamed Comandante Cero.
1937Joseph Wambaugh, American author (died 2025)[â ]
Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh Jr. was an American writer known for his fictional and nonfictional accounts of police work in the United States. Many of his novels are set in Los Angeles and its surroundings and feature Los Angeles police officers as protagonists. He won three Edgar Awards, and was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.