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Ry Express Agency met area clerical and platform workers stage slowdown strike to protest discharge of 13 Ry & Steamship Clerks members charged with concealing criminal records in employment applications; almost all air and rail shipments to and from NYC and NJ terminal halted; co lay-offs seen
Foley conf with Pres Truman; says legis action will be sought for pub housing and slum clearance
Jessup amendment to McNeil motion urges use of both '47 and Bernadotte plans to fix Israeli area, s, pol com; amplifies earlier statement; seen ignoring Pres Truman Oct pledges; Maj Eban renews claim to entire Negeb and W Galilee; Australia urges use of '47 plan as peace basis; Israelis score Jessup proposals
Hogan, Gahagan and Maclachlan reinstated by Local 100 exec bd; MacMahon hails action as rank-and-file victory; Quill comments
TOKYO, Wednesday, Nov. 24 -Gen. Douglas MacArthur today upheld all the sentences imposed by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East on Hideki Tojo and twenty-four others who were convicted as war criminals.
1948Spider Robinson, American-Canadian author and critic[†]
Spider Robinson is an American-Canadian science fiction author. He has won a number of awards for his hard science fiction and humorous stories, including the Hugo Award 1977 and 1983, and another Hugo with his co-author and wife Jeanne Robinson in 1978.
1948Rudy Tomjanovich, American basketball player and coach[†]
Rudolph Tomjanovich Jr. is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He won two NBA Championships with the Houston Rockets and coached Team USA to the gold medal in men's basketball at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
1948Steve Yeager, American baseball player and coach[†]
Stephen Wayne Yeager is an American former professional baseball catcher. Yeager spent 14 of the 15 seasons of his Major League Baseball career, from 1972 through 1985, with the Los Angeles Dodgers. His last year, 1986, he played for the Seattle Mariners. From 2012 to 2018, Yeager was the catching coach for the Dodgers. He was co-MVP of the 1981 World Series.
1948Anna Jarvis, American founder of Mother's Day (born 1864)[†]
Anna Maria Jarvis was the founder of Mother's Day in the United States. Her mother had frequently expressed a desire to establish such a holiday, and after her mother's death, Jarvis led the movement for the commemoration. However, as the years passed, Jarvis grew disenchanted with the growing commercialization of the observation and even attempted to have Mother's Day rescinded. By the early 1940s, she had become infirm, and was placed in a sanatorium by friends and associates where she died on November 24, 1948. A legend exists that a portion of her medical bills were paid for by florists.