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Somervell announces joint WPA-ERB survey to separate ineligibles from rolls
announces no compromise decision by opponents of proposal
SWOC stresses peace or war as slogan in J & L vote
Backs dog racing bill, Albany hearing; assails Comr Swope; Swope replies
royal family sees special ed of newsreels
1937Brooks Robinson, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2023)[†]
Brooks Calbert Robinson Jr. was an American baseball player who played his entire 23-year career in Major League Baseball as a third baseman for the Baltimore Orioles from 1955 to 1977. Nicknamed "Mr. Hoover" and "the Human Vacuum Cleaner", he is generally considered to have been the greatest defensive third baseman in major league history.
1937Jacques Santer, Luxembourger jurist and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Luxembourg[†]
Jacques Santer is a Luxembourgish politician who served as president of the European Commission from 1995 to 1999. He served as the finance minister of Luxembourg from 1979 until 1989, and as prime minister of Luxembourg from 1984 to 1995, as a member of the Christian Social People's Party (CSV), which was the leading party in the Luxembourgish government between 1979 and 2013. As Prime Minister of Luxembourg, he also led the negotiations on the Single European Act, which effectively set aside the 20-year-old Luxembourg Compromise.