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September 8, 1949
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Headlines from September 8, 1949
Germans Open Parliament, Demand End to Dismantling; Koehler and Arnold Elected to Head Two Houses -- Defeat Angers Ehard BONN PARLIAMENT FORMALLY OPENED ELECTED IN GERMANY
Elected Bundesrat Pres; por
BAR OPENS INQUIRY ON ROLE OF JUDGES AS TRIAL WITNESSES; Judicial Appearances in Hiss Case Prompting Factor in Study of 'Propriety' APPEAL HANDICAPS CITED Clash Over Association Stand on Genocide Treaty Stirs Move for Compromise JUDGES ON STAND UNDER BAR INQUIRY
resolutions; Vinson s
SNYDER PROMISES BRITAIN AID BASED ON EXISTING POLICY; U. S. Chairman Tells 3-Power Parley This Nation Acts as an 'Interested Friend' CRIPPS DISAVOWS CHARITY Canadian Urges Washington to Study Tariffs -- Attlee Pledges Fullest Self-Help SNYDER PROMISES U. S. AID TO BRITAIN
Brit, US and Canadian Mins conf on crisis
20-Story Television Center to Rise On Broadway Block at 51st Street; BROADWAY GETTING TELEVISION CENTER
J Sloan Associates file plans for bldg, NYC, to be leased as television studios
Notable Births
1949Edward Hinds, English physicist and academic[โ ]
Edward Allen Hinds FInstP FAPS FRS is a British physicist noted for his work with cold matter.
Notable Deaths
1949Richard Strauss, German composer and manager (born 1864)[โ ]
Richard Georg Strauss was a German composer and conductor best known for his tone poems and operas. Considered a leading composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras, he has been described as a successor of Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt. Along with Gustav Mahler, he represents the late flowering of German Romanticism, in which pioneering subtleties of orchestration are combined with an advanced harmonic style.