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list of defendants; Asst Atty Gen McMahon, prosecutor, C I Dawson, defense counsel
Protests on WPA conflict with private contracts
Conflicting repts issue from Shantung front; Chinese claim Japanese columns advancing from Hwai River to Lung-Hai ry are cut; claim Japanese surrounded at Yungcheng and Mengcheng; Japanese claim rapid advances with tanks on Lung-Hai ry; insist line cut at Niehwang, Tangshan and Sinanchen; planes bomb Suchow and other sections; Japanese landing force repulsed on Fukien Province coast
Repr Bacon attacks proposal for RFC guarantee of bank loans on inventories
consol proposals involving N Y C Co, Surrogates, Gen Sessions and City Cts opposed by N Y Co Lawyers Assn com
1938Stuart Bell, English lawyer and politician (died 2012)[†]
Sir Stuart Bell was a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Middlesbrough from the 1983 general election until his death in 2012. He was known as the longest serving Second Church Estates Commissioner, serving in this role during the entire period of Labour government from 1997–2010.
1938Ivan Sutherland, American computer scientist and academic[†]
Ivan Edward Sutherland is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, widely regarded as a pioneer of computer graphics. His early work in computer graphics as well as his teaching with David C. Evans in that subject at the University of Utah in the 1970s was pioneering in the field. Sutherland, Evans, and their students from that era developed several foundations of modern computer graphics. He received the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1988 for the invention of the Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal computers. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as the National Academy of Sciences among many other major awards. In 2012, he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology for "pioneering achievements in the development of computer graphics and interactive interfaces".
1938Marco Aurelio Denegri, Peruvian television host and sexologist (died 2018)[†]
Marco Aurelio Denegri Santa Gadea was a Peruvian intellectual, literary critic, television host and sexologist.
1938Joseph Strauss, American engineer, co designed The Golden Gate Bridge (born 1870)[†]
Joseph Baermann Strauss was an American structural engineer who revolutionized the design of bascule bridges. He was the chief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California.