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legal technicalities in contempt case revd
welfare fund seen as only gain from strife
outlines US policy for continuation of world relief after UNRRA is discontinued; radio s; denies US uses relief as pol weapon
The soft-coal strike is over, but its effects will be felt for some time. The 3,000,000-ton stockpile frozen by the Government when the strike began has shrunk to 450,000 tons.
The international executive board of the United Automobile Workers, CIO, its bargaining position greatly improved with the termination of the soft coal strike, will assemble here this afternoon to define its demand for a new round of wage increases for 850,000 union members.
1946David Currie, Baron Currie of Marylebone, English economist and academic[†]
David Anthony Currie, Baron Currie of Marylebone is a British economist specialising in regulation, and a cross-bench member of the House of Lords. Currie was the inaugural Chairman of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
1946Dennis Dunaway, American bass player and songwriter[†]
Dennis Dunaway is an American musician, best known as the original bass guitarist for the rock band Alice Cooper. He co-wrote some of the band's most notable songs, including "I'm Eighteen" and "School's Out".
1946Sonia Gandhi, Italian-Indian politician[†]
Sonia Gandhi is an Indian politician. She is the longest-serving president of the Indian National Congress, a big-tent liberal political party, which has governed India for most of its post-independence history. She took over as the party leader in 1998, seven years after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, her husband and a former Prime Minister of India, and remained in office until 2017 after serving for twenty-two years. She returned to the post as interim president in 2019 and remained the President for another three years.
1946Nicholas Reade, English bishop[†]
Nicholas Stewart Reade is a retired British Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Blackburn in the Province of York from 2004 to 2012.
1946The subsequent Nuremberg trials begin with the Doctors' Trial, prosecuting physicians and officers alleged to be involved in Nazi human experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia.[†]
The subsequent Nuremberg trials were twelve military tribunals for war crimes committed by the leaders of Nazi Germany (1933–1945). The Nuremberg Military Tribunals occurred after the Nuremberg trials, held by the International Military Tribunal, which concluded in October 1946. The subsequent Nuremberg trials were held by U.S. military courts and dealt with the cases of crimes against humanity committed by the business community of Nazi Germany, specifically the crimes of using slave labor and plundering occupied countries, and the war-crime cases of Wehrmacht officers who committed atrocities against Allied prisoners of war, partisans, and guerrillas.
1946The Constituent Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of India.[†]
Constituent Assembly of India was partly elected and partly nominated body to frame the Constitution of India. It was elected by the Provincial assemblies of British India following the Provincial Assembly elections held in 1946 and nominated by princely states. After India's independence from the British in August 1947, its members served as the members of the 'Dominion Legislature of India', as well as the Constituent Assembly. It was first conceived by V. K. Krishna Menon, who outlined its necessity as early as 1933 and espoused the idea as a demand of the Indian National Congress.