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S on judiciary and U S agencies, Amer Law Inst; por
Wallace lr to Hughes charges he shifted ground
300 convicts hold sit-down strike in protest against discontinuance of noon rest period
Oversupply of foodstuffs reptd, Rockland County, N Y; C O Poole repts shipments affect retail market
Shantung front positions revd; map; Women's War Area Service Corp urges resistance, illus; Japanese attempt to trap Gen Li Tsung-jen's forces in Suchow area; Japanese capture Yungchen; press on Sinanchen and Haichow; USS Marblehead speeds to Amoy
1938Giuliano Amato, Italian academic and politician, 48th Prime Minister of Italy[†]
Giuliano Amato is an Italian politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Italy, first from 1992 to 1993 and again from 2000 to 2001. Upon Arnaldo Forlani's death in July 2023, Amato became the country's earliest-serving surviving Prime Minister.
1938Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1861)[†]
Charles-Édouard Guillaume was a Swiss physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1920 "for the service he had rendered to precision measurements in physics by his discovery of anomalies in nickel steel alloys". In 1919, he gave the fifth Guthrie Lecture at the Institute of Physics in London with the title "The Anomaly of the Nickel-Steels".