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approves compromise bill; adopts Barkley amendment; debate described
s on army demobilization, Cong meeting
asks to retire when Gen Marshall does; plans
USSR views noted
1945Richard Childress, American race car driver and businessman[†]
Richard Reed Childress is an American former race car driver in NASCAR. Childress is the owner of Richard Childress Racing (RCR). In 2004, he opened a vineyard in the Yadkin Valley AVA near Lexington. Childress sat on the board of directors at the National Rifle Association of America until 2019. Childress has been a co-owner of the Professional Bull Riders' Carolina Cowboys team since 2022.
1945Shaw Clifton, Northern Irish 18th General of The Salvation Army (died 2023)[†]
Shaw Clifton was a Salvation Army Officer born to Salvation Army officer parents stationed in Northern Ireland, who served as the 18th General of the Salvation Army. He succeeded John Larsson on 2 April 2006.
1945Kay Ryan, American poet and educator[†]
Kay Ryan is an American poet and educator. She has published seven volumes of poetry and an anthology of selected and new poems. From 2008 to 2010 she was the sixteenth United States Poet Laureate. In 2011 she was named a MacArthur Fellow and she won the Pulitzer Prize.