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O'Dwyer signs 3 Sharkey bills following pub hearing; laws effective immediately; Ross repts on evictions, Sept 1-15; interpretation of new laws sought; Estimate Bd paves way for additional appropriation for city rent comm
storm sweeps across peninsula into Gulf of Mex; Ft Lauderdale and nearby areas battered; citrus and other ripe crops heavily damaged; casualties and devastation believed less than feared; looter killed attempting to rob wrecked store in Miami; refugees housed in pub bldgs
Communist-dominated unions try to seize control of San Marco shipyds, Muggia
1947Drew Gilpin Faust, American historian and academic[†]
Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust is an American historian and author who served as the 28th president of Harvard University from 2007 to 2018. She was Harvard's first female president, its first president since 1672 without a Harvard undergraduate or graduate degree, and the first to have been raised in the South. Faust was also the founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She was repeatedly named one of the world's 100 most powerful women by Forbes, reaching as high as 33rd in 2014.
1947Giancarlo Minardi, Italian businessman, founded the Minardi Racing Team[†]
Giancarlo Minardi is the founder and managing director of the now-defunct Minardi Formula One team.
1947The National Security Act reorganizes the United States government's military and intelligence services.[†]
The National Security Act of 1947 was a law enacting major restructuring of the United States government's military and intelligence agencies following World War II. The majority of the provisions of the act took effect on September 18, 1947, the day after the Senate confirmed James Forrestal as the first secretary of defense.