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March 25, 1949

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Notable Births

1949Ronnie Flanagan, Northern Irish Chief Constable (Royal Irish Constabulary, Police Service of Northern Ireland)^[†]

Sir Ronald Flanagan is a retired senior Northern Irish police officer. He was the Home Office Chief Inspector of Constabulary for the United Kingdom excluding Scotland. Flanagan was previously the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) since its creation in 2001 to 2002, and had been Chief Constable of its predecessor, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) until 2001.

1949Sue Klebold, American activist^[†]

Susan Francis Klebold is an American activist and author whose son, Dylan Bennet Klebold, was one of the perpetrators of the Columbine High School shooting in 1999. After the massacre, she wrote A Mother's Reckoning, a book about the signs and possible motives she missed of Dylan's mental state.

Historical Events

1949More than 92,000 kulaks are suddenly deported from the Baltic states to Siberia.^[†]

Kulak, also kurkul or golchomag, was the term which was used to describe peasants who owned over 3 ha of land towards the end of the Russian Empire. In the early Soviet Union, particularly in Soviet Russia and Azerbaijan, kulak referred to property ownership among peasants who were considered hesitant allies of the Bolshevik Revolution. In Ukraine during 1930–1931, there also existed a term of podkulachnik ; these were considered "sub-kulaks".

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Headlines from March 25, 1949

Canton Ship Mined; Scores Casualties

By the United Press

Miss Orient (SS) hits mine and capsizes near Canton; casualties

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New Drug to Fight Tuberculosis Called Better Than Streptomycin; NEW DRUG ENTERS TUBERCULOSIS WAR

By Waldemar Kaempffert

newly-discovered neomycin seen more effective than streptomycin in curbing bacteria growth pending further tests

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Lewis Orders Miners Back, Hints at Longer Halt Later; Resume Work Monday, Says UMW Chief, Advising Readiness to 'Fight Again' -- Dr. Boyd, Sworn In, Gets $10,847

By Joseph A. Loftus

Lewis ends stoppage; message calls on miners to prepare to fight again; Boyd sworn in; bituminous stocks cut 20 million tons

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RUSSIA DISPLACES BULGANIN AS HEAD OF ARMED FORCES; Vasilevsky, His Deputy, Takes Over Post as the Minister From Politburo-Member

By Joseph Collins

Apptd Armed Forces Min; por

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U. S. Reds Ordered to Revolt In 1945, Budenz Tells Court; U. S. Reds Ordered by Manuilsky To Revolt in '45, Budenz Testifies

By Russell Porter

Budenz testifies further; says Ukraine Foreign Min Manuilsky, while UN delegate in '45, supervised CP on its post-war revolutionary turn against US; cites lr from Daily Worker correspondent J Starobin on French Communists instruction to advise US CP; cites subsequent order to print J Duclos article attacking Browder and calling for shift to class war, noting Dennis and Stachel roles; testifies on Browder '43 and '44 CP role and ideology; on Natl Com conf on suppressed Foster lr; on Foster emergence as result of Manuilsky and Duclos meneuvers; McGohey presents evidence on CP policy shift, on CP 'fronts' to gain popular support awaiting revolutionary situation, on their mil program, on training professional revolutionists; Medina warns defense counsel on interruptions

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LAWFUL WIRETAPS HELD TO 350 A YEAR; Courts Limit Writ to a Month and Are Reluctant to Cut Into Public Telephones

By Warren Moscow

Bretnall testifies

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Accord on Rent by March 31 Sought by Congress Groups; RENT PACT SOUGHT BEFORE MARCH 31

By Clayton Knowles

WASHINGTON, March 24 -- Working against a March 31 deadline, a Congressional conference committee of twelve members took up today the difficult assignment of reconciling the Senate and the House bills providing for extension of rent controls.

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U. S. ACCUSES SOVIET OF BAN ON OUR IDEAS TO AVOID CONTRAST; State Department Recounts Rebuffs by Russia to Keep Her People in Ignorance

By Richard H. Parke

The State Department charged yesterday that the Soviet Government feared a free interchange of "ideas and persons" with the United States because it knew the Russian people would learn of the failure of communism to provide them with American standards of living and freedom.

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