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Fed grand jury selected and impaneled to investigate nation-wide black market
Opposes Hobbs anti-racketing bill
Snyder rept warns on inflation danger in housing field; revs govt steps to encourage bldg; estimates not more than 500,000 units can be erected in '46; urges State and local aid; Patman bill to set price ceilings on new homes seen favored in Truman-Snyder plan; realty men comment; NY groups accept priorities system, oppose price ceilings
V H Nyborg warns against post-war swindling boom because of high wartime savings; NYC conf planned to protect savers
1945Herman Cain, American businessman, politician, and activist (died 2020)[†]
Herman Cain was an American businessman and Tea Party movement activist in the Republican Party. Cain graduated from Morehouse College with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. He then earned a master's degree in computer science at Purdue University while also working full-time for the U.S. Department of the Navy. In 1977, he joined the Pillsbury Company where he later became vice president. During the 1980s, Cain's success as a business executive at Burger King prompted Pillsbury to appoint him as chairman and CEO of Godfather's Pizza, in which capacity he worked from 1986 to 1996.
1945Irma Grese, German concentration camp guard (born 1923)[†]
Irma Ilse Ida Grese was a Nazi concentration camp Helferin at Ravensbrück, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Bergen-Belsen. She has been widely known as the "Hyena of Auschwitz" and the "Beast of Belsen" for the atrocities she committed in Birkenau.
1945Josef Kramer, German concentration camp commandant (born 1906)[†]
Josef Kramer was a Hauptsturmführer in the SS and the Commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen Belsen concentration camps. Dubbed The Beast of Belsen by camp inmates, he was a German Nazi war criminal, directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people. He was detained by the British Army after the Second World War, convicted of war crimes, and hanged on the gallows in the prison at Hamelin by British executioner Albert Pierrepoint.
1945Elisabeth Volkenrath, Polish-German concentration camp supervisor (born 1919)[†]
Elisabeth Volkenrath was a German supervisor at several Nazi concentration camps during World War II.