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Truman sees Lilienthal confirmation; pressure to end hearings increases; 11 persons from Tenn Valley testify in Lilienthal behalf, hearing; list; Mrs P C Cox and J M Frantz questioned by McKellar on alleged Hart lr; Vandenberg challenges McKellar on relevance of matter to Lilienthal fitness for post
JERUSALEM, Feb. 20--The Irgun Zvai Leumi made a mortar and machine-gun attack on a Royal Air Force installation near Hadera and cut oil pipelines in two places last night and early today. Later a woman member of this terrorist group telephoned correspondents to claim the "credit" for the organization.
Dewey maps plan to enlarge communities powers as means of financing teachers pay rises; no earmarking of receipts planned however
VA: worst snowstorm in 7 yrs blankets southwestern area; schools closed, traffic disrupted
Pres Truman expected not to seek Selective Service Law extension beyond expiration date
1947Johnny Echols, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
John Marshall Echols is an American songwriter and guitarist, who was a co-founder and the lead guitar player of the psychedelic rock band Love.
1947Olympia Snowe, American politician[†]
Olympia Jean Snowe is an American businesswoman and politician who was a United States Senator, representing Maine for three terms from 1995 to 2013. A lifelong member of the Republican Party, Snowe played an influential role in influencing the outcome of close votes in the U.S. Senate and in ending U.S. Senate filibusters. In 2006, Time magazine named her one of "America's Best Senators". Throughout her U.S. Senate career, she was considered one of the chamber's most moderate members.
1947Fannie Charles Dillon, American composer (born 1881)[†]
Fannie Charles Dillon was an American pianist, music educator and composer.
1947In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.[†]
Edwin Herbert Land, ForMemRS, FRPS, Hon.MRI was an American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation. He invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a practical system of in-camera instant photography, and the retinex theory of color vision, among other things. His Polaroid instant camera went on sale in late 1948 and made it possible for a picture to be taken and developed in 60 seconds or less.