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Natl Jamboree opens, Valley Forge, Pa; Truman s; Natl Council ends 2-day session; 9 get awards
Near East reaction: Egypt abstains in vote on 2d UN resolution; sees war as phase of East-West split; charges UN failed to act in other aggressions; GB repr comments
Census Bur repts employment at 61,482,000, near '48 peak, unemployment at 3,384,000; Sec Sawyer comments
Sen Magnuson offers bill empowering Govt to search foreign ships in US ports
1950David Duke, American white supremacist, politician and Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard[†]
David Ernest Duke is an American politician, neo-Nazi, conspiracy theorist, and former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. From 1989 to 1992, he was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for the Republican Party. His politics and writings are largely devoted to promoting conspiracy theories about Jews, such as Holocaust denial and Jewish control of academia, the press, and the financial system. In 2013, the Anti-Defamation League called Duke "perhaps America's most well-known racist and anti-Semite".
1950Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss composer and educator (born 1865)[†]
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze was a Swiss composer, musician, and music educator who developed Dalcroze eurhythmics, an approach to learning and experiencing music through movement. Dalcroze eurhythmics influenced Carl Orff's pedagogy, used in music education throughout the United States.
1950Eliel Saarinen, Finnish-American architect, co-designed the National Museum of Finland (born 1873)[†]
Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen was a Finnish and American architect, designer, and urban planner. Saarinen worked in a diverse range of styles in his native Finland and, after emigrating in 1923, the United States. He was the father of architect Eero Saarinen and designer Pipsan Saarinen Swanson.
In 1950, the world population was approximately 2,499,322,157 people[†]