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B M Baruch urges council reorgn into central peace-making agency, s, Naval War Coll; calls members overworked; sees need for membership broadening
US Amb Grady urges Parliament act on hydro-elec program projected with ECA aid
House passes Herter amendment cutting Point 4 plan to $25 billion; Herter says plan provides $16,000-a-yr dir apptd by Pres and confirmed by Sen, existing agencies to provide personnel; Speaker Rayburn backs plan, House floor; Repr L H Smith scores plan; House rejects moves to bar integration with UN plan, to limit US part to 40% of cost and bar tech aid for UN mandates violation, aggression or colonial exploitation
The biggest job of census-taking in the nation's history will start this morning. It will be the seventeenth in the series of counts required by the Constitution. Throughout the country, ...
NYC Traffic Comm rejects Greyhound W 34 St terminal expansion plan; Comr Moses comments
1950Samuel Alito, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States[â ]
Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated to the high court by President George W. Bush on October 31, 2005, and has served on it since January 31, 2006. After Antonin Scalia, Alito is the second Italian American justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1950Loris Kessel, Swiss racing driver (died 2010)[â ]
Loris Kessel was a racing driver from Switzerland.
1950Daniel PaillĂ©, Canadian academic and politician[â ]
Daniel Paillé is a Canadian politician, who represented the riding of Prévost in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1994 to 1996 as a member of the Parti Québécois, and represented the district of Hochelaga in the House of Commons of Canada as a member of the Bloc Québécois. He was elected leader of the Bloc Québécois with 62 percent of the vote on December 11, 2011. Paillé stepped down as leader on December 16, 2013 for health reasons.
1950Charles R. Drew, American physician and surgeon (born 1904)[â ]
Charles Richard Drew was an American surgeon and medical researcher. He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge to developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II. This allowed medics to save thousands of Allied forces' lives during the war. As the most prominent African American in the field, Drew protested against the practice of racial segregation in the donation of blood, as it lacked scientific foundation, and resigned his position with the American Red Cross, which maintained the policy until 1950.
1950Recep Peker, Turkish soldier and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1889)[â ]
Mehmet Recep Peker was a Turkish military officer and politician. A heavy-handed modernist, he served in various ministerial posts and finally as the Prime Minister of Turkey between 1946 and 1947.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[â ]