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April 12, 1949

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TAMMANY REJECTS YOUNG ROOSEVELT; Picks Shalleck for Congress -- Blaikie, 7th A. D. Chief, Bolts and Assails Leadership TAMMANY REJECTS YOUNG ROOSEVELT

By Warren Moscow

Tammany exec com selects Shalleck after dist leaders stormy session; rejects Assemblyman McGivern, A Kaplan and Roosevelt; 7th AD leader R B Blaikie bolts orgn; backs Roosevelt; his orgn backs stand; he denounces Tammany leadership and F X Mancuso role; Roosevelt also breaks with Tammany; will reject ALP backing if offered

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' STAGGERING WASTE' IN MILITARY COSTS CHARGED BY HOOVER; He Suggests $1,500,000,000 Might Be Saved by Modern Accounting, Which He Asks CONGRESS, HELD BLINDED Votes Billions Without Data, Says Commission Report, Declaring 'Padding' Common TESTIFYING BEFORE THE SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE YESTERDAY HOOVER CHARGES MILITARY WASTE

By Clayton Knowlesspecial To the New York Times

H Hoover says Cong votes funds without getting data; sees $1.5 billion saving for fiscal '50 possible; assails current budget practices; urges acctg revisions

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FBI 'PLANT' TELLS OF RED LIE PLEDGE; Inner Circle Workings in U. S. and His Reports Described by Philbrick at Trial FBI 'PLANT' TELLS OF RED LIE PLEDGE

By Russell Porter

Philbrick cross-examined; says he was ordered by CP to keep CP membership secret; says CP operated like conspiratorial group rather than like legitimate pol party; describes various affiliations with party groups and activities since joining and his reptg to FBI; testifies on professional group further; links Struik to Young Communist League '42 Youth for Victory program; cites joining UPWA in '49 to help union with publicity work

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Notable Births

Scott Turow

1949Scott Turow, American lawyer and author[†]

Scott Frederick Turow is an American author and lawyer. Turow worked as a lawyer for a decade before writing full-time, and has written 13 fiction and three nonfiction books, which have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 30 million copies. Turow’s novels are set primarily among the legal community in the fictional Kindle County. Films have been based on several of his books.

Pravin Gordhan

1949Pravin Gordhan, South African politician (died 2024)[†]

Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan was a South African politician and anti-apartheid activist who held various ministerial posts in the Cabinet of South Africa. He served as Minister of Finance from 2009 until 2014, and again from 2015 until 2017, as Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs from 2014 until 2015, and as Minister of Public Enterprises from February 2018 until June 2024, when the entire Department of Public Enterprises and its ministry were abolished following the 2024 general elections.