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Jackson's views and use of compulsion may be aired at Sen hearing on apptmt as Solicitor Gen and in special investigation
rept covers van Zeeland recommendations on internatl trade and monetary standard and suggestions from others on colonies
com hearings; Burke attacks Bd as favoring CIO, cites cases
Opposes change in League sanctions, s at Council opening
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1938Tomas Lindahl, Swedish-English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[â ]
Tomas Robert Lindahl is a Swedish-British scientist specialising in cancer research. In 2015, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with American chemist Paul L. Modrich and Turkish chemist Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair.
1938Leonid Zhabotinsky, Ukrainian weightlifter and coach (died 2016)[â ]
Leonid Ivanovich Zhabotinsky was a Soviet weightlifter who set 19 world records in the superheavyweight class, and won gold medals at the 1964 and 1968 Olympic Games.
1938Bernd Rosemeyer, German race car driver (born 1909)[â ]
Bernd Rosemeyer was a German racing driver and speed record holder. He is often considered one of the greatest racing drivers of his era.
1938The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W125 Rekordwagen at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9Â mph).[â ]
The land speed record (LSR) or absolute land speed record is the highest speed achieved by a person using a vehicle on land. By a 1964 agreement between the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM), respective governing bodies for racing in automobiles and motorcycles, both bodies recognise as the absolute LSR whatever is the highest speed record achieved across any of their various categories. While the three-wheeled Spirit of America set an FIM-validated LSR in 1963, all subsequent LSRs are by vehicles in FIA Category C in either class JE or class RT.