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Yugoslavia asks loan from Export-Import Bank to buy US mining machinery
Pres inquiry bd offers to mediate dispute; J Gall and R P Patterson sum up indus case; hearings end
London Times and Foreign Office laud Pres Truman stand as antidote to US criticisms
parade led by Pres Truman; Truman s
Sen passes 70-group force bill but keeps funds at 48-group level
1949Ted Ammon, American financier and banker (died 2001)[†]
Robert Theodore Ammon was an American financier and investment banker. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he was murdered in his home in 2001 by electrician Daniel Pelosi, who was convicted in 2004. Ammon and his wife Generosa Ammon were in the midst of a divorce at the time of his death, and Pelosi was later romantically linked to Ammon's soon-to-be ex-wife. Ammon and his wife had married on February 2, 1986, and had two children, the twins Greg Ammon and Alexa Ammon, whom they adopted from the village of Medvedivtsi in the Mukachevo Region of Ukraine in October 1992.
1949Don Boudria, Canadian public servant and politician, 2nd Canadian Minister for International Cooperation[†]
Don Boudria is a former Canadian politician and current senior associate at Sandstone Group, an Ottawa-based executive advisory firm. He served in the House of Commons of Canada from 1984 to 2006 as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada, and was a cabinet minister in the government of Jean Chrétien.
1949Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (born 1877)[†]
Arthur Fielder was an English cricketer who played as a fast bowler for Kent County Cricket Club and the England cricket team from 1900 to 1914. He played a major role in Kent's four County Championship wins in the years before World War I and toured Australia twice with the England team making six Test match appearances. He was chosen as one of Wisden's Cricketers of the Year in 1907.