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Germans reptd retreating, Petsamo-Murmansk sector
Dirs meeting; E G Grace s on raw material supply
Price control: farm products prove chief controversial point in drafting gen legis; L Henderson draft discussed
Ickes urges 7 P M curfew for East Coast gasoline stations; holds rationing may follow; Roosevelt signs bill permitting several cos to build pipelines; N J and Me back curfew
Office for Coordination of Commercial and Cultural Relations Between the Amer Repubs name changed to Office of Coordinator of Inter-Amer Affairs
1941Ron Brown, American politician, 30th United States Secretary of Commerce (died 1996)[†]
Ronald Harmon Brown was an American politician and lobbyist who served as the 30th United States secretary of commerce during the first term of President Bill Clinton. Before this, he was chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). He was the first African American to hold these positions. He was killed, along with 34 others, in a 1996 plane crash in Croatia.
1941Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (died 2004)[†]
Étienne Roda-Gil was a songwriter and screenwriter. He was an anarchist and an anarcho-syndicalist.