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3 Foreign Mins decide on conf secrecy
B F Fairless and G M Humphrey secret offer to grant Lewis basic wage and hr demands revealed; Lewis holds out for certain other concessions; issues revd; possible avoidance of long strike seen
exec adm com to submit rept on situation
testifies, House hearing on oil shipments to USSR
TWU demonstrates outside bd offices to protest action
1947Mark Helprin, American novelist and journalist[†]
Mark Helprin is an American-Israeli novelist, journalist, conservative commentator, Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. While Helprin's fictional works straddle a number of disparate genres and styles, he has stated that he "belongs to no literary school, movement, tendency, or trend".
1947Laura Tyson, American economist and academic[†]
Laura D'Andrea Tyson is an American economist and university administrator who is currently a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley and a senior fellow at the Berggruen Institute. She served as the 16th Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 1993 to 1995 and 2nd Director of the National Economic Council from 1995 to 1996 under President Bill Clinton. Tyson was the first woman to hold each of those posts. She remains the only person to have served in both posts.
1947Stanislav Kostka Neumann, Czech writer, poet and journalist (born 1875)[†]
Stanislav Kostka Neumann was a Czech poet, literary critic, journalist and translator. He was known for his anarchist and communist views, which influenced his work. He is the father of the actor Stanislav Neumann.