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Repub alternative budget including dept lump sum plan and proposed suspension of Feld-Hamilton law on increases approved by fiscal coms and Repubs legis conf; cuts total $33,000,000
Anthracite tie-up implied by Lewis; contract conf scheduled
Confs with Viscount Halifax
U S Sup Ct holds past membership is not deportation grounds, J G Strecker case
Contribution to Workers Alliance revealed in House com hearings
1939Glen Hardin, American pianist and arranger[†]
Glen Dee Hardin is an American piano player and arranger. He has performed and recorded with such artists as Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley, Emmylou Harris, John Denver, and Ricky Nelson.
1939Thomas J. Moyer, American lawyer and judge (died 2010)[†]
Thomas Joseph Moyer was an American jurist and the chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court from 1987 to 2010. A member of the Republican Party, he formerly served as a justice of the 10th district of the Ohio District Courts of Appeals from 1979 to 1987. The Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center, headquarters of the Ohio Supreme Court, was named in his honor in 2011.
1939Robert Menzies, who became Australia's longest-serving prime minister, is elected as leader of the United Australia Party after the death of Prime Minister Joseph Lyons.[†]
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies was an Australian politician and lawyer who served as the 12th prime minister of Australia from 1939 to 1941 and from 1949 to 1966. He held office as the leader of the United Australia Party (UAP) in his first term, and subsequently as the inaugural leader of the Liberal Party of Australia in his second. He was the member of parliament (MP) for the Victorian division of Kooyong from 1934 to 1966. He is the longest-serving prime minister in Australian history.