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Personnel register covering eligible persons for top policy posts is subject of special Pres com study; com members; D Dawson chmn; com conf with Truman; Dawson int; patronage issue noted
$88.57 million aid bill for Navajo and Hopi tribes signed; Truman comments
Harriman s at NYS Dem Com dinner; seen receptive to nomination; greeting not over-enthusiastic; Fitzpatrick predicts Dem victory; O'Dwyer says he doesn't want 'splinter party' to dictate candidate to Dem party
BLFE calls strike against 4 western rrs to back demand for 2d fireman on Diesels; scores Pres fact-finding bd rejection of demand, Sept '49
Dr Sander's license to practice med in NH revoked by State Regis Bd but loophole is left for him to apply for reinstatement in 2 mos
1950Alexander Lebed, Russian general and politician (died 2002)[†]
Lieutenant General Alexander Ivanovich Lebed was a Soviet and Russian military officer and politician who held senior positions in the Airborne Forces before running for president in the 1996 Russian presidential election. He did not win, but placed third behind incumbent Boris Yeltsin and the Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, with roughly 14% of the vote nation-wide. Lebed later served as the Secretary of the Security Council in the Yeltsin administration, and eventually became the governor of Krasnoyarsk Krai, the second largest Russian region. He served four years in the latter position, until his death following an Mi-8 helicopter crash.
1950N. Chandrababu Naidu, Indian politician, 13th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh[†]
Nara Chandrababu Naidu, commonly known as CBN, is an Indian politician who is currently serving as the 13th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. He holds the record of longest-serving Chief Minister in the political history of Telugu states. He is the national president of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP).
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]