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May 9, 1948

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THE NATION

By Unknown Author

With a little more than one month to go before the Republican convention, the nomination race seems pretty much a wide open affair. The Big Three contenders -- Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota and Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio -- are still much in the race.

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U.S. CURB ON STEEL SEEN NOT NEEDED; Industry Cites Record Output and Impending Slash to Bolster the Point

By Thomas E. Mullaney

With steel production and shipments this year running at a record pace and steel requirements for two important programs due to be slashed appreciably, the domestic steel industry is now convinced -- and many Government officials are said to be ready to agree -- that a system of Government controls over distribution of the material will not be necessary.

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Notable Births

Calvin Murphy

1948Calvin Murphy, American basketball player and radio host[†]

Calvin Jerome Murphy is an American former professional basketball player who after a prolific collegiate career at Niagara, where he averaged 33.1 points per game over his three years, played in the National Basketball Association as a guard for the San Diego/Houston Rockets from 1970 to 1983. He is currently a member of the Houston Rockets' Space City Home Network broadcast team. Standing at a height of 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m), Murphy has the distinction of being the shortest NBA player inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, and to play in an NBA All-Star Game.

Historical Events

Czechoslovakia

1948Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.[†]

Czechoslovakia was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland became part of Nazi Germany. Between 1939 and 1945, the state ceased to exist, as Slovakia proclaimed its independence and Carpathian Ruthenia became part of Hungary, while the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was proclaimed in the remainder of the Czech Lands. In 1939, after the outbreak of World War II, former Czechoslovak president Edvard Beneš formed a government-in-exile and sought recognition from the Allies.