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House rejects amendment to interim aid bill barring shipment of scarce goods
arrives, Cairo, Egypt; does not attend Arab League meeting on Palestine partition
Sees meat rationing by Apr, s, Town Hall, NYC; bars food price control
Govt says strikers will get bonus retroactive to Nov 24 if they return to work by Dec 10; refuses to negotiate further; labor feds to conf on resistance to Govt attitude; Mayer notes increasing back-to-work movement; Govt pledges action on wages and wage-price stabilization; rejects confed specific demands on minimum, qrly wage revision and retroactive pay; promises no penalty for striking; declines amnesty for those arrested; confed natl strike com denounces Govt tactics
1947Tom Daschle, American soldier, academic, and politician[†]
Thomas Andrew Daschle is an American politician and lobbyist who represented South Dakota in the United States Senate from 1987 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, he led the Senate Democratic Caucus during the final ten years of his tenure, during which time he served as Senate Minority Leader and Majority Leader.
1947Jaak Jõerüüt, Estonian politician, 24th Estonian Minister of Defense[†]
Jaak Jõerüüt is an Estonian writer and politician. He was the defense minister of Estonia from November 2004 to 10 October 2005.
1947Allan Jones, English cricketer and umpire[†]
Allan Arthur Jones is an English cricket umpire and a former cricketer. When he joined Glamorgan in 1980 he became the first cricketer to represent four English first-class counties.