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In N Y C for ANPA conv; int on business conditions
Rebels advance in Teruel area; map; gains near Granada
Ford Brotherhood of Amer Inc offers Ford Co contract binding workers to buy car in return for $1,500 minimum annual wage
Radio s defending undistributed profits tax
The General Headquarters Air Force is to move May 1 to the defense of New England in an imaginary war in which the United States is being attacked by a coalition of "Asiatic and European powers."
1938Roger Boisjoly, American aerodynamicist and engineer (died 2012)[†]
Roger Mark Boisjoly was an American mechanical engineer, fluid dynamicist, and an aerodynamicist. He is best known for having raised strenuous objections to the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger months before the loss of the spacecraft and its crew in January 1986. Boisjoly correctly predicted, based on earlier flight data, that the O-rings on the rocket boosters would fail if the shuttle launched in cold weather. Morton Thiokol's managers decided to launch the shuttle despite his warnings, leading to the catastrophic failure. He was considered a high-profile whistleblower.
1938Ton Schulten, Dutch painter and graphic designer[†]
Ton Schulten is a Dutch painter who mainly paints landscapes using bright blocks of colour.
1938U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.[†]
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on questions of U.S. constitutional or federal law. It also has original jurisdiction over a narrow range of cases, specifically "all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party." In 1803, the court asserted itself the power of judicial review, the ability to invalidate a statute for violating a provision of the Constitution via the landmark case Marbury v. Madison. It is also able to strike down presidential directives for violating either the Constitution or statutory law.