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Wage-hr conditions described by spokesmen for ACWA, ILGWU and other unions in plea for Cong backing of legis
Fed ct, Chicago, voids NLRB order to rehire workers who violated non-strike agreement, Columbian Enameling & Stamping Co, Terre Haute, Ind
Maj J B Dempster and guard slain by Chinese robbers, Tinghsien
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Conf with Roosevelt and Morgenthau on contemplated Treas financing
1938Steven Bach, American writer, businessman and educator (died 2009)[†]
Steven Bach was an American writer and lecturer on film and a former senior vice-president and head of worldwide productions for United Artists studios.
1938Bernie Madoff, American businessman, financier and convicted felon (died 2021)[†]
Bernard Lawrence Madoff was an American financial criminal and financier who was the admitted mastermind of the largest known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion. He was at one time chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange. Madoff's firm had two basic units: a stock brokerage and an asset management business; the Ponzi scheme was centered in the asset management business.