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Bevin and opponents prepare for debate; Amb Franks conf with US Sec Acheson
party leaders allied with H E Stassen, Taft and Sen Vandenberg, and com men B C Reece, H E Spangler and Repr Martin join attack on Scott; Col McCormick's Chicago Tribune ed urges Scott ouster and Reece election; Scott firm; gets backing of Sen Martin; Taft and Stassen would back R F Gates for chmn
Members back dirs bd anti-bias stand
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 -- The eight Democratic members of the Senate Labor Committee formally "resolved" late today that the Taft-Hartley labor law be repealed forthwith and without hearings.
$50,000 allocated to Indian Affairs Bur to aid tribes on Western reservations
1949John Cooper Clarke, English poet and critic[†]
John Cooper Clarke is an English performance poet and comedian who styled himself as a "punk poet" in the late 1970s. In the 1970s and early 1980s, he released several albums and performed on stage with punk and post-punk bands. He continues to perform regularly.
1949Paul Nurse, English geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Sir Paul Maxime Nurse is an English geneticist, former President of the Royal Society and Chief Executive and Director of the Francis Crick Institute. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Leland Hartwell and Tim Hunt, for their discoveries of protein molecules that control the division of cells in the cell cycle.
1949Makino Nobuaki, Japanese politician, 15th Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs (born 1861)[†]
Count Makino Nobuaki, also Makino Shinken , was a Japanese politician and imperial court official. As Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan, Makino served as Emperor Hirohito's chief counselor on the monarch's position in Japanese society and policymaking.
1949The first Emmy Awards are presented in the United States; the venue is the Hollywood Athletic Club.[†]
The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the year, each with their own set of rules and award categories. The two events that receive the most media coverage are the Primetime Emmy Awards and the Daytime Emmy Awards, which recognize outstanding work in American primetime and daytime entertainment programming, respectively. Other notable American national Emmy events include the Children's & Family Emmy Awards for children's and family-oriented television programming, the Sports Emmy Awards for sports programming, News & Documentary Emmy Awards for news and documentary shows, and the Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards and the Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards for technological and engineering achievements. Regional Emmy Awards are also presented throughout the country at various times through the year, recognizing excellence in local television. In addition, the International Emmy Awards honor excellence in TV programming produced and initially aired outside the United States.