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Hoffman warns using counterpart funds for rearming would delay recovery
Pres fact-finding bd proposes rrs grant basic 5-day 40-hr wk with 18c hrly pay rise to 75,000 yd workers; makes same proposal for 4,000 ydmasters on 66 rrs; denies BRT and Ry Conductors demand for basic pay rise; disputes revd; other cases pending
Attlee questioned on Brit Labor party manifesto. Commons; embarrassed because exec com released it without informing Govt; says Govt cannot make pub its views on integration now
A D Slack held on espionage charges, Syracuse, NY; FBI says Slack gave Gold samples of secret explosive RDX and data on its mfr, at Holston Ordnance Works, Kingsport, Tenn, in '43, '44; 2 unnamed persons indicted with Gold believed to be A A Yakovlev formerly of USSR Consulate in NY and S M Semenov, of Amtorg Trading Corp; neither now in US; Gold said to have given data given him by Slack to Semenov; his later contacts with Yakovlev described; Slack biog; por; held in $100,000 bail; he denies Communist party membership; comment on RDX
D A Schmidt series on conditions; holds majority oppose communism despite size of party but are passive as under Nazi occupation; illus
1950Mithun Chakraborty, Indian actor and politician[â ]
Mithun Chakraborty is an Indian actor, film producer, screenwriter, entrepreneur and politician who predominantly works in Hindi and Bengali cinema. In a career spanning over five decades, he has done 350 films, mostly in Bengali and Hindi languages, and a few in Odia, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Punjabi. Referred to as "Mahaguru", he is a former Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament. He is the recipient of three National Film Awards and four Filmfare Awards. In January 2024, Chakraborty was awarded Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian honour by the Government of India. He was also awarded India's highest accolade in the field of cinema, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2022, whose announcement came from the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in September 2024.
1950Michel Clair, Canadian lawyer and politician[â ]
Michel Clair is an administrator and former politician in the Canadian province of Quebec. He was a Parti Québécois member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1976 to 1985 and served as a cabinet minister in the governments of René Lévesque and Pierre-Marc Johnson. Clair later became an executive administrator with Hydro-Québec.
1950Jerry Petrowski, American politician and farmer[â ]
Jerome James "Jerry" Petrowski is a retired American Republican politician and a former ginseng, dairy, and beef farmer from Marathon County, Wisconsin. He represented Marathon County for 24 years in the Wisconsin Legislature, serving 11 years in the Wisconsin Senate (2012â2023) and 13 years in the state Assembly (1999â2012).
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[â ]