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CIO Resolutions Com rept urges UE expulsion from CIO
Truman fiscal '50 mid-yr budget rev; $5.5 billion deficit estimated
Sen Dulles charges taxes jeopardize NYC industries; says he opposes taxes while his opponent for Sen H H Lehman backs levies
Adm Sherman backs unification '100%,'
Killed in plane crash, Washington
1949Lois McMaster Bujold, American author[†]
Lois McMaster Bujold is an American speculative fiction writer. She has won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record. Her novella The Mountains of Mourning won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. In the fantasy genre, The Curse of Chalion won the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the 2002 World Fantasy Award for best novel, and both her fourth Hugo Award and second Nebula Award were for Paladin of Souls. In 2011 she was awarded the Skylark Award. She has won two Hugo Awards for Best Series, in 2017 for the Vorkosigan Saga and in 2018 for the World of the Five Gods. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association named her its 36th SFWA Grand Master in 2019.
1949Grace Y. Sam, Palauan politician[†]
Grace Y. Sam is a Palauan politician who served as a member of the Koror State Legislature.
1949Jerome F. Donovan, American lawyer and politician (born 1872)[†]
Jerome Francis Donovan was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a United States representative from New York from 1918 to 1921.
1949The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.[†]
The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference was held in The Hague from 23 August to 2 November 1949, between representatives of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Republic of Indonesia and the Federal Consultative Assembly, representing various states the Dutch had created in the Indonesian archipelago.