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LaGuardia to seek Legis permit to use surplus revenues from emergency relief taxes for allied purposes
Filoff on Bulgarian peace aims and foreign policy, Ruschuk s; USSR denies repts of knowledge of German troops in Bulgaria
Lauded by Roosevelt for calling off SWOC strike at Amer Car & Foundry Co; lr text
RAF violates Swiss neutrality to bomb Turin arsenal
1941Pasqual Maragall, Spanish academic and politician, 127th President of the Generalitat de Catalunya[†]
Pasqual Maragall Mira is a Spanish retired politician and former President of Generalitat de Catalunya. He had previously been Mayor of Barcelona, from 1982 to 1997, and helped run the city's successful Olympic bid.
1941Meinhard Nehmer, German bobsledder[†]
Meinhard Nehmer is a former East German bobsledder who competed from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won four medals with three golds and one bronze. Nehmer also carried the East German flag during the opening ceremonies of the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck.
1941James Joyce, Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet (born 1882)[†]
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist movement and is regarded among the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Joyce's novel Ulysses (1922) is a landmark in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, particularly stream of consciousness. Other well-known works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914) and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, letters, and occasional journalism.