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subcom members in conflict over McCarthy files subpeona issue; McCarthy says he gave Lattimore files to FBI
Penna coal producers forced by oil competition to cut prices; close high-cost mines
digest revising declaration made pub at Sen Brewster, Repr L W Hall and G G Gabrielson direction; Sen M G Smith role noted; Sen Taft says digest has no official standing; Repr Fulton, Sen Lodge comment
H Seiler, 3 other ex-convicts and woman held in series of hold-ups; 'arsenal' found; illus
High Comr McCloy sees increased pressure against West as sign USSR sees victory immediate
1950Indrajit Coomaraswamy, Sri Lankan cricketer and economist[†]
Deshamanya Indrajit Coomaraswamy is a Sri Lankan economist. He served as the 14th Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.
1950Kurt Weill, German-American composer and pianist (born 1900)[†]
Kurt Julian Weill was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht. With Brecht, he developed productions such as his best-known work, The Threepenny Opera, which included the ballad "Mack the Knife". Weill held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful purpose, Gebrauchsmusik. He also wrote several works for the concert hall and a number of works on Jewish themes. He became a United States citizen in 1943.
1950Carter G. Woodson, American historian, author, and journalist, founded Black History Month (born 1875)[†]
Carter Godwin Woodson was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). He was one of the first scholars to study the history of the African diaspora, including African-American history. A founder of The Journal of Negro History in 1916, Woodson has been called the "father of black history." In February 1926, he launched the celebration of "Negro History Week," the precursor of Black History Month. Woodson was an important figure to the movement of Afrocentrism, due to his perspective of placing people of African descent at the center of the study of history and the human experience.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]