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Attends service at Key West naval base chapel; $100 contribution to chapel noted
BERLIN, Dec. 4 -- Winds that ranged up to eighty miles an hour ripped across northern Germany today, killing ten persons and injuring sixteen. The death toll in Berlin was five.
USSR workers set increased output goals to mark birthday; E Eur states plan programs
Sec Sawyer, at Pres Truman's request, seeks plan to prevent monopolies and restraint of trade; will form interagency com; gives data to Celler subcom on concentration of output in 452 industries; tables on top concentration ratios
say they cannot submit to destruction of religious freedom; warn law may provoke religious fight; 5 major objections cited
1949John Altman, English composer and conductor[†]
John Altman is an English film composer, music arranger, orchestrator and conductor.
1949David Manning, English civil servant and diplomat, British Ambassador to the United States[†]
Sir David Geoffrey Manning, is a former British diplomat, who was the British Ambassador to the United States from 2003 to 2007. He authored the so-called "Manning Memo", that summarized the details of a meeting between American president George W. Bush and British prime minister Tony Blair during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Until 2019, he was appointed to the Household of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.