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Blizzard and cold wave strikes Rocky Mt States and Midwest areas; trains and highway traffic stalled; towns isolated
Inslerman, Miss Lincoln pors
NYS sues Maple Grove Cemetery Assn and Maple Grove Memorial Pk charging fraud in burial plots sale, NYC; alleges $1.6 million profit on $200 investment
UN comm proposes separate banking systems for Berlin E and W zones under 4-power comm control and new bank of issue; adm details noted
Vice Adm Badger denies US forces are being withdrawn from China; links rumors to termination of lease on Shantung Univ campus; withdrawal rept seen premature rather than wrong; Communist radio denounces Chiang peace offer as trick engineered by reactionaries backed by US; individual Govt leaders reptdly sound out US and USSR embassies on outside mediation of civil war; Nanking reaction to Chiang peace offer noted; pressure for resignation of Chiang reptd unabated
1949In his State of the Union address, United States President Harry S. Truman unveils his Fair Deal program.[†]
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. As the 34th vice president in 1945, he assumed the presidency upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt that year. Subsequently, Truman implemented the Marshall Plan in the aftermath of World War II to rebuild the economy of Western Europe, and established both the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain the expansion of Soviet communism. A member of the Democratic Party, he proposed numerous New Deal coalition liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the conservative coalition that dominated the United States Congress.