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de Gasperi repts Cabinet approves unanimously, Parliament, heated debate opens; Left-Wing Socialists lead opposition
Sen defeats, 46-41, Lucas motion to table Russell appeal from Barkley ruling; also votes, 46-41, to repudiate Barkley ruling; debate prior to vote revd; Vandenberg, McKellar, Lucas, Knowland s; Vandenberg defends his '48 ruling and leads Repub defection; Taft votes with northern Dems on both issues; White on Vandenberg role
Wiretapping plot against city officials revealed by O'Dwyer; he repts K Ryan, former city detective and wiretapping expert, confession; Boro Pres Rogers home phone tapped; 2d man, reptd to be former FBI agent, held
WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Administration forces in the House, their majority threatened by Southern Democratic defections, staved off today by a narrow margin a determined drive, spearheaded by the Republicans, to limit the extension of rent controls to ninety days.
strike ended; Spellman and union exec D Sullivan comment
1949Rob Cohen, American director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Robert Alan Cohen is an American director and producer of film and television. Beginning his career as an executive producer at 20th Century Fox, Cohen produced and developed numerous high-profile film and television programs, including Dragonheart, The Wiz, The Witches of Eastwick and Light of Day until he began focusing on full-time directing in the 1990s. He directed the action films The Fast and the Furious and XXX.
1949Mary Catherine Lamb, American textile artist[†]
Mary Catherine Lamb was an American textile artist, whose quilts reframed traditional Roman Catholic iconography. Recycling vintage textiles popular during the mid-20th century, she both honored and affectionately skewered her Catholic upbringing.
1949David Mellor, British politician[†]
David John Mellor is a British broadcaster, barrister, and former politician. As a member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet of Prime Minister John Major as Chief Secretary to the Treasury (1990–1992) and Secretary of State for National Heritage, before resigning in 1992. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Putney from 1979 to 1997.
1949Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (born 1879)[†]
Georg Wilhelm Steinkopf was a German chemist. Today he is mostly remembered for his work on the production of mustard gas during World War I.