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Unless some means is devised to speed up the construction of apartments and houses for rent, the shortage of rental housing will be as critical at the end of the year as it is now, in the opinion of J. Ernest Fender, president of the Structural Clay Products Institute.
Policies of chain of Nazi-Fascist papers in various countries discussed
new OPA bill providing for provisional decontrol of certain items and subsidies end approved, Cong conf com
To be Putnam county homes development
Secretary of State James F. Byrnes will be packing his bags this week for another trip to Paris. He will attend the peace conference of twenty-one Allied nations, opening a week from tomorrow, at which the treaties drafted
1946Ken Starr, American lawyer and judge, 39th Solicitor General of the United States (died 2022)[†]
Kenneth Winston Starr was an American lawyer and judge who as independent counsel authored the Starr Report, which served as the basis of the impeachment of Bill Clinton. He headed an investigation of members of the Clinton administration, known as the Whitewater controversy, from 1994 to 1998. Starr previously served as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1983 to 1989 and as the U.S. solicitor general from 1989 to 1993 during the presidency of George H. W. Bush.
1946Timothy Harris, American author, screenwriter and producer[†]
Timothy Hyde Harris is an American author, screenwriter and producer. He has been publishing works of fiction since the late 1960s and has been involved in filmmaking since the early 1980s. For his work in film, Harris has been nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay as well as an Annie Award for Writing in a Feature Production.
1946Gualberto Villarroel, Bolivian soldier and politician, 45th President of Bolivia (born 1908)[†]
Gualberto Villarroel López was a Bolivian military officer who served as the 39th president of Bolivia from 1943 to 1946. A reformist, sometimes compared with Argentina's Juan Perón, he is nonetheless remembered for his alleged fascist sympathies and his violent demise.