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strike spreads; locals expected to reject substitute proposal; AFL Maritime Trades Council to intervene; SS America docks; passengers unload own baggage; illus; Veendam and Britannica diverted to Halifax; Ryan flouts tug strike rumor; new 25c wage demand seen; US Customs inspectors en route to Halifax illus
repts that Sawyer and Krug may be asked to leave noted
Govt allows pub circulation of silver coins and US currency and permits personal gold holding; raises official gold yuan rate from 4 to 20-1 US dollar, 10-1 US silver dollar
Ala Dem Exec Com chmn G T McCorvey says States-Rights electors cannot vote for Truman; cites mandate of Ala white people
1948Hassan Rouhani, Iranian lawyer and politician; 7th President of Iran[†]
Hassan Rouhani is an Iranian politician who served as the seventh president of Iran from 2013 to 2021. He is also a sharia lawyer ("Wakil"), academic, former diplomat and Islamic cleric. He served as a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts from 1999 to 2024. He was a member of the Expediency Council from 1991 to 2013, and also was a member of the Supreme National Security Council from 1989 to 2021. Rouhani was deputy speaker of the fourth and fifth terms of the Parliament of Iran (Majlis) and Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council from 1989 to 2005. In the latter capacity, he was the country's top negotiator with the EU three, UK, France, and Germany, on nuclear technology in Iran, and has also served as a Shia mujtahid, and economic trade negotiator.
1948Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (born 1867)[†]
Umberto Menotti Maria Giordano was an Italian composer, mainly of operas. His best-known work in that genre was Andrea Chénier (1896).
1948Aftermath of World War II: In Tokyo, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II.[†]
The aftermath of World War II saw the rise of two global superpowers, the United States (U.S.) and the Soviet Union (USSR). The aftermath of World War II was also defined by the rising threat of nuclear warfare, the creation and implementation of the United Nations as an intergovernmental organization, and the decolonization of Asia, Oceania, South America and Africa by European and East Asian powers, most notably by the United Kingdom, France, and Japan.