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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., March 16--A new milestone on the long road traveled by professional baseball will be reached at City Island Park tomorrow when Manager Leo Durocher's Dodgers meet the Montreal Royals, piloted by Mississippi-born Clay Hopper, in a regularly scheduled exhibition game.
800 family units planned in Jericho; illus
One month ago President Truman said: "Production is our salvation. Production is the basis of high wages and profits and high standards of living for us all." But at that time over 1,400,000 persons were on strike in major mass-production industries.
Food trade leaders, eager to assist President Truman in his efforts to meet foreign relief needs, and anxious to avoid any position which might be construed as less than total cooperation in accomplishing that humanitarian goal, are privately inclined to be highly critical of the Government's methods in handling the situation, ...
1946Dai Li, Chinese general (born 1897)[†]
Dai Li, courtesy name Yunong, was a Chinese lieutenant general and spymaster. Dai was born in Jiangshan, Zhejiang and later studied at the Whampoa Military Academy, where Chiang Kai-shek served as Chief Commandant, and later became head of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics (BIS) within the Nationalist government of the Republic of China (ROC).