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Min Aras on credit accord with Turkey
Morgan complains of being balked by TVA officials in preparing case; assails Blandford and J L Fly, TVA counsel; Repr Jenkins charges Biddle with check on employes' confs with former chmn; latter denies sabotaging TVA, charges attempt to make engineers give false ct testimony
N Y C Finance Dept; H F Connor, sec, held for forgery; said to have confessed misappropriating over $40,000
Const Conv adopts proposal to continue use of common school, U S Deposit and literature funds
Explains future Justice Dept anti-trust suit policy, in ordering movie industry suit instituted
1938Les Aspin, American captain and politician, 18th United States Secretary of Defense (died 1995)[†]
Leslie Aspin Jr. was an American Democratic Party politician and economist who served as the U.S. representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district from 1971 to 1993 and as the 18th United States Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1994.
1938Anton Kuerti, Austrian-Canadian pianist, composer, and conductor[†]
Anton Emil Kuerti, OC is an Austrian-born Canadian pianist, music teacher, composer, and conductor. He has developed international recognition as a solo pianist.
1938Janet Reno, American lawyer and politician, 79th United States Attorney General (died 2016)[†]
Janet Wood Reno was an American lawyer and public official who served as the 78th United States attorney general from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. A member of the Democratic Party, Reno was the second-longest serving attorney general, behind only William Wirt, and the first woman to serve in the position.
1938Owen Wister, American lawyer and author (born 1860)[†]
Owen Wister was an American writer. His novel The Virginian, published in 1902, helped create the cowboy as a folk hero in the United States and built Wister's reputation as the "father of Western fiction". He was posthumously inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum and the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame. The Western Writers of America renamed the Saddleman Award for best book of the year to the Owen Wister Award, and Mount Wister in Wyoming was named in his honor.