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US rejects blockade as illegal; GB expected to take similar stand; Brit shipping firm reptdly plans to test blockade; LST reptd seized by Govt warships
ry traffic to resume as strike ends; Deputy Mil Govs conf on procedure in scheduled transport talks
US Sec Snyder and Asst Sec Martin to talk with Cripps, London; Washington views; 3 causes including US price drops listed; Cripps tells Commons US is not exerting pressure for devaluation; rev
Murphy continues cross-exam, showing more discrepancies, but Hiss major testimony is unshaken; Hiss queried on Nye com role and on handling of State Dept papers, on driving to NY with Chambers, on meeting G Eisler atty Mrs C King, on knowing N Witt and N Field; denies knowing Eisler former wife H Massing; questioned on refusal to sign statement for FBI, on '37 vacation, on taking Carnegie Endowment for Internatl Peace pres, on J F Dulles, Byrnes and Sec Acheson roles on question of rumors of his Communist ties, on Mrs Chambers por of stepson, on House com exam and confrontation with Chambers, on typing specimens, on car and Chambers testimony it was for Communist orgn, on new car, on Chambers delivery of rug, on number of times Hiss saw Chambers, on preparation of State Dept papers summaries; on Mrs Catlett; Stryker resumes direct exam on Hiss '46 int with Byrnes, on change in plan to resign from State Dept in June '47 to return to private practice, and resignation to become Carnegie pres; Mrs Hiss testifies, denying close assn with Chambers, on meeting, on use of nicknames, on furniture in Hiss home, on por of son; denies receiving landscape painting from Mrs Chambers or taking care of Chambers child, or visiting with Mrs Chambers in any park
Repr Sims refuses to attend; dinner aim to unify party
1949Dan Dierdorf, American football player and sportscaster[†]
Daniel Lee Dierdorf is an American sportscaster and former professional football player. He played 13 seasons (1971–1983) as an offensive tackle for the St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL).
1949Joan Clos, Spanish anesthesiologist and politician, 116th Mayor of Barcelona[†]
Joan Clos i Matheu, GCIH is a Spanish politician who was mayor of Barcelona, Spain from September 1997 to September 2006. He took over from Pasqual Maragall in 1997. In 1999 he was elected to a four-year term, and was then re-elected in the municipal elections of 25 May 2003. In September 2006, he left Barcelona Town Hall, after nine years of office, as he was appointed Minister of Industry, Tourism and Trade by Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. After a stint as the Spanish Ambassador in Turkey and Azerbaijan, in 2010 he was appointed as executive director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, (UN-HABITAT), and Under Secretary General of the United Nations. Joan Clos is also president of the Spanish Chapter of The International Real Estate Federation (FIABCI).
1949Ann Veneman, American lawyer and politician, 27th United States Secretary of Agriculture[†]
Ann Margaret Veneman is an American attorney who served as the fifth executive director of UNICEF from 2005 to 2010. She previously served as the 27th United States secretary of agriculture from 2001 to 2005. Veneman served for the first term of President George W. Bush, and she left to take the UNICEF position. Appointed by the U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on January 18, 2005, she took over the post on May 1, 2005, serving until 2010. Previously, she also served as secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, serving from 1995 to 1999, as well as United States deputy secretary of agriculture, serving from 1991 to 1993. Veneman was the first woman to serve as Secretary of Agriculture and the second woman to lead UNICEF, following her predecessor, Carol Bellamy.
1949Themistoklis Sofoulis, Greek politician, 115th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1860)[†]
Themistoklis Sofoulis or Sophoulis was a prominent centrist and liberal Greek politician from Samos Island, who served three times as Prime Minister of Greece, with the Liberal Party, which he led for many years.