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US Sup Ct upholds const of oath required under Taft-Hartley Law, USWA and ACA cases; Justice Black dissents
Sec Acheson announces US decision to grant mil and econ aid to France and French Indo-China states for defense against Communist threat and for 'development of genuine nationalism'; reaction, France; large part of unexpended $75 million may be assigned to Indo-China aid
Adm opens drive for FEPC; South organized for filibuster; Southern Dems tactics revd; Russell charges bill follows 'Russian idea'; E D Thomas defends bill
USSR accepts city-wide election proposal under 7 conditions, lr by Col Yelizarov to Western Allied Commandants; rejection held likely
F Costello and J Adonis on list of 150 racketeers; US Attys in NYC rept on steps taken to correlate data
1950Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (born 1883)[†]
Esteban Terrades i Illa also known as Esteve Terradas, was a Spanish mathematician, scientist and engineer. He researched and taught widely in the fields of mathematics and the physical sciences, working not only in his native Catalonia, but also in the rest of Spain and in South America. He was also active as a consultant in the Spanish aeronautics, electric power, telephone and railway industries.
1950Robert Schuman presents the "Schuman Declaration", considered by some to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.[†]
Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman was a Luxembourg-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian democratic political thinker and activist. Twice Prime Minister of France, a reformist Minister of Finance and a Foreign Minister, he was instrumental in building postwar European and trans-Atlantic institutions and was one of the founders of the European Communities, the Council of Europe and NATO. The 1964–1965 academic year at the College of Europe was named in his honour. In 2021, Schuman was declared venerable by Pope Francis in recognition of his acting on Christian principles.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]