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December 9, 1949

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HOUSE GROUP ROWS ON JORDAN INQUIRY; Three G. O. P. Members Assert 'Quickie' Hearings Open Body to Charges of 'Whitewash' HOUSE GROUP ROWS ON JORDAN INQUIRY

By C. P. Trussellspecial To the New York Times

House com Repub members Reprs Nixon, Case and Velde, not present at hearings, send protest to Wood scoring haste and hearings conduct; assail questioning of Groves as opening com to criticism of 'whitewash'; Howe says 1,000-lb shipment of uranium compounds went from Canada to USSR in May, '43, as normal wartime transaction, Commons

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REVISION IS PUSHED IN FOREIGN SERVICE ALONG HOOVER LINE; Committee to Advise Acheson on Joining High-Level Staff and 'Career' Personnel PLAN STIRS SHARP FIGHT Two of Three in Group Named and Study Is to Begin Soon After Holiday Season AIDES TO ACHESON REVISION IS PUSHED IN FOREIGN SERVICE

By Walter H. Waggonerspecial To the New York Times

Com to advise Sec Acheson on State Dept-Foreign Service amalgamation as recommended by Hoover Comm; R Ramspeck and J H Rowe Jr named; illus; amalgamation problems discussed

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Notable Births

Tom Kite

1949Tom Kite, American golfer and architect[โ€ ]

Thomas Oliver Kite Jr. is an American professional golfer and golf course architect. He won the U.S. Open in 1992 and spent 175 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking between 1989 and 1994.