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comment on plans of civil service employes labor organizations to achieve pay rises; increase sought estimated at $50 million, exclusive of transit workers demands
Min Evatt urges Paris Peace Conf to establish tribunal to assure full freedoms in former Axis satellite countries
role as Axis saboteur against Allied Near East war plans revealed
OPA retains price controls on dried product
news ban ends as PW strikers approve 3-point arbitration agreement; text; strike end awaits arbitrator A S Meyer interim decision on contract violation issue
1946Charles Bolden, American general and astronaut[†]
Charles Frank Bolden Jr. is a former administrator of NASA, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General, and a former astronaut who flew on four Space Shuttle missions.
1946Bill Clinton, American lawyer and politician, 40th and 42nd Governor of Arkansas, 42nd President of the United States[†]
William Jefferson Clinton is an American politician and lawyer who was the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the attorney general of Arkansas from 1977 to 1979 and as the governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981, and again from 1983 to 1992. His centrist "Third Way" political philosophy became known as Clintonism, which dominated his presidency and the succeeding decades of Democratic Party history.
1946Dawn Steel, American film producer (died 1997)[†]
Dawn Leslie Steel was an American film studio executive and producer. She was one of the first women to run a major Hollywood film studio, rising through the ranks of merchandising and production to head Columbia Pictures in 1987.