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Sen approves Taft '41 profit margin amendment possibility of Truman veto noted; Bowles calls Sen bill more inflationary than that of House; George attacks Bowles; Sen considers Elmer Thomas amendment to remove ceilings immediately from certain products
in lr to Premier Gasperi states refusal to leave until ct has passed on vote fraud charges; offers to collaborate in Govt; Cabinet ignores claims
Sen Bridges demands Black resignation; Sen McCarran opposes Sen action before Jackson's return
defends foreign policy, Labor party conf, Bournemouth; unwilling to open Palestine to 100,000 Jews; says no more Brit troops will be sent there; cites NYC Jews agitation; suggests pub ownership of Palestine land; assails peace delay; discusses relations with USSR and Spain, and problem of Ger
1946Sher Bahadur Deuba, Nepalese politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Nepal[†]
Sher Bahadur Deuba is a Nepalese politician who served as the 32nd prime minister of Nepal for five terms. He has been the president of the Nepali Congress since 2016 and was the Member of Parliament for the parliamentary constituency of Dadeldhura 1 before the parliament was dissolved on 12th September 2025.
1946Paul L. Modrich, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Paul Lawrence Modrich is an American biochemist, James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry at Duke University and Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He is known for his research on DNA mismatch repair. Modrich received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015, jointly with Aziz Sancar and Tomas Lindahl.
1946Gabriel of Komana, Belgian-Dutch archbishop (died 2013)[†]
Gabriel of Komana was an Eastern Orthodox archbishop of the Ecumenical Patriarchate who led the Patriarchal Exarchate for Orthodox Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe from 2003 to 2013.