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The campaign of 1948 is on. President Truman launched it in Philadelphia in the small hours of Thursday morning. Accepting the Democratic nomination for President, he issued a challenge to the Republican Congress by summoning it into special session on July 26 to make good on the pledges of the GOP platform.
Olympic torch lighted, Olympia, Greece; ceremony described; route of Greek runner protected against reptd possible attack by guerillas
Prices are expected to be among the subjects that will come up for serious discussion at the special session of Congress, called by President Truman to convene on July 26. Since both the Republican and Democratic parties emphasized in their recently adopted platforms the present high cost of living, there is a chance that some legislation designed to stop the rising trend of prices may be enacted.
Speculation on outlook for tax repeal legis by reconvening Cong
FOR one happy moment there last week, this reviewer was on the verge of thinking he'd seen the picture which must surely mark the end of gangster films. That was the moment in "Key Largo" when Humphrey Bogart fired several screaming shots into the groveling body of Edward G. Robinson, then turned triumphantly, a new man, to face the dawn.
1948Carlos Colón Sr., Puerto Rican-American wrestler and promoter[†]
Carlos Edwin Colón González Sr. is a Puerto Rican wrestling promoter and retired professional wrestler, better known as Carlitos Colón or simply Carlos Colón. He is, along with Victor Jovica, an owner of the Puerto Rican wrestling promotion World Wrestling Council (WWC), where he has held the WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship a record 26 times. He is the patriarch of the Colón wrestling family, composed of his sons Carlos and Eddie, daughter Stacy and nephew Orlando. In 2014, he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame and the following year into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame.
1948Jeanne Córdova, American journalist and activist (died 2016)[†]
Jeanne Córdova was an American writer and supporter of the lesbian and gay rights movement, founder of The Lesbian Tide, and a founder of the West Coast LGBT movement. A former Catholic nun, Córdova was a second-wave feminist lesbian activist and self-described butch.
1948Hartmut Michel, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Hartmut Michel is a German biochemist, who received the 1988 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for determination of the first crystal structure of an integral membrane protein, a membrane-bound complex of proteins and co-factors that is essential to photosynthesis.
1948Herman Gummerus, Finnish historian, academic, and politician (born 1877)[†]
Herman Gregorius Gummerus was a leading Finnish classical scholar, diplomat, and one of the founders of the Patriotic People's Movement (IKL).