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Gen Motors Corp: NLRB rules co guilty of unfair labor practice and anti-discrimination in professional workers transfer from salaried to hrly wage basis because they chose bargaining repr; orders return to former status and Architects, Engineers, Chemists and Technicians Fed recognition as bargaining agent
On rounding up Ger paratroopers
warn heavy bombers not practical substitute for tactical aircraft against ground troops
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, Allied Expeditionary Force, Dec. 20 -- The positions of the Allies' and the German armies, in the future, will be made public once daily, it was announced today, after a sufficient time lag to make sure that the enemy will reap no benefit from the information.
Ger radio dispatches rept Amers reinforcing Aachen and Saar fronts
1944Michael Tilson Thomas, American pianist, composer, and conductor[†]
Michael Tilson Thomas is an American conductor, pianist, and composer. He is Artistic Director Laureate of the New World Symphony, an American orchestral academy in Miami Beach, Florida, Music Director Laureate of the San Francisco Symphony, and Conductor Laureate of the London Symphony Orchestra. He gave his final performance with the San Francisco Symphony in April 2025 while fighting brain cancer.
1944Zheng Xiaoyu, Chinese diplomat (died 2007)[†]
Zheng Xiaoyu was the director of the State Food and Drug Administration of the People's Republic of China from 2003 to 2005. He was sentenced to death for corruption and allowing possibly tainted products in mainland China in the first instance trial at Beijing No.1 Intermediate Court on May 29, 2007. He was executed on July 10, 2007.