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on North China front, Japanese capture Kwangchungchen, 20 mi north of Taiyuan
Cardenas decrees nationalization of Standard Oil Co of Calif and French-financed Compania Agricola y Colonizadora de Tabasco lands; danger to all U S and Brit concessions seen; Amb Daniels stresses necessity for U S-Mex cooperation
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conf agrees on subcoms to negotiate jurisdictional disputes between rival unions; indus charters under 1934 AFL resolution in view; comment by G M Harrison and W Green
Sister awarded bulk of estate
1937Chan Sek Keong, Singaporean lawyer, judge and politician, 3rd Chief Justice of Singapore[†]
Chan Sek Keong is a Malayan-born Singaporean jurist who served as chief justice of Singapore between 2006 and 2012 when he was appointed by President S. R. Nathan. He is the first Chief Justice to have previously served as the former & third attorney-general of Singapore between 1992 and 2006.
1937Harris Yulin, American actor (died 2025)[†]
Harris Bart Goldberg, known professionally as Harris Yulin, was an American actor who appeared in over a hundred film and television series roles including Night Moves with Gene Hackman, St. Ives (1976) with Charles Bronson, Scarface (1983), Ghostbusters II (1989), Clear and Present Danger (1994), Looking for Richard (1996), Bean (1997), The Hurricane (1999), Training Day (2001), and Frasier, which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 1996.