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AFL union pledges return on seizure
RR Brotherhood threatens strike against NY Central RR subsidiaries Ind Harbor Belt RR and Chicago Junction Ry; rejects Natl RR Adjustment Bd requests to handle grievances; Truman intervention seen; Brotherhood claims discussed; strike to tieup all East-West traffic through Chicago; cos reprs statements
Correction of Washington edition rept on Repr Keefe remark to Rear Adm Kimmel as latter completed testimony before Pearl Harbor com
Dewey proposes temporary measures, special message to Legis; proposes 4 tests to be used in bldg temporary units; considers use of Camp Shanks; Dems call program inadequate
increased NYC supplies expected as 20 independent slaughterers, outside city, seek sanitary permits
1946Arnoldo Alemán, Nicaraguan lawyer and politician, President of Nicaragua[†]
José Arnoldo Alemán Lacayo is a Nicaraguan politician who served as the president of Nicaragua from 10 January 1997 to 10 January 2002. In 2003, he was convicted of corruption and sentenced to a 20-year prison term; the conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court of Nicaragua in 2009.
1946Boris Berezovsky, Russian-English businessman and mathematician (died 2013)[†]
Boris Abramovich Berezovsky, also known as Platon Elenin, was a Russian business oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He had the federal state civilian service rank of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation.
1946Marie Charlotte Fayanga, Central African politician and diplomat (died 2021)[†]
Marie Charlotte Fayanga was a Central African diplomat and politician.