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Jewish Natl Fund Ltd seen using $15-million US bank loan to pay for land left by refugees
O'Dwyer asks draft com to end efforts; says 'no' is final; Coleman accepts decision; Dem nomination thrown wide open; Flynn reptd backing Dist Atty Hogan, Boro Pres Cashmore himself, Rogers backing C H Silver, J A Roe and J A Sullivan backing J D Nunan Jr and opposing Cashmore; compromise candidates mentioned as Pecora, J J Bennett, Controller Joseph, Councilman Sharkey, Quayle and Wagner
Chambers lists his 5 sources of Govt documents, naming Hiss, Wadleigh, W Pigman H D White and 'Vincent' (Franklin Victor ?) Reno; Chambers nephew N L Levine and 16 other persons testify for Govt, backing Chambers on buying car, on rugs, on Hiss and wife typing specimens, on mfr date of microfilm used, on Hiss Washington residences, on NH summer theatre performance in Aug, "37, on Hiss vacation in Aug, '37; prosecution reads into record, Hiss statement made to FBI on Dec 4, '48, on knowing Chambers as G Crosley and ending assn in spring or summer '36, denying Communist party membership and espionage with Chambers or Bykov, commenting on Chambers use of his apt, on rug as gift, on transfer of car, and acknowledging that 3 of 4 handwritten memos produced by Chambers are in his hand
L L Strauss says radio-isotopes exported by US are research tools, Cong com
J D Rockefeller Jr pledges $5 million to Graduate Business Adm School fund drive if gift is matched by others by July '50; asks bldg be named for N W Aldrich; Pres Conant replies
1949Sigrid Undset, Danish-Norwegian novelist, essayist, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1882)[†]
Sigrid Undset was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.