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WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 -- Congress gave President Truman's annual message on the state of the Union a chilly reception today. It had been heralded as "a slugging message."h) 0*0*0*iO
ex-Sec Morgenthau listed as corn trader in 1 of 3 new rosters; statement; co linked to H A Wallace, Pauley and 4 relatives also named; Anderson to continue pub of private traders names because of Cong inaction
Dewey plans conf with Comr Corsi on program
Ousted under Fed anti-Communist law
1948Gillies MacKinnon, Scottish director and screenwriter[†]
Gillies MacKinnon is a Scottish film director, writer and painter. He was born in Glasgow and attended the Glasgow School of Art where he studied mural painting. Following this he became an art teacher and cartoonist, and about this time he traveled with a nomadic tribe in the Sahara for six months.
1948Kurt Schwitters, German painter and graphic designer (born 1887)[†]
Kurt Hermann Eduard Karl Julius Schwitters was a German artist. He was born in Hanover, Germany, but lived in exile from 1937.