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On reapportionment of House of Reprs
talks with Western Allies begin indecisively; polls show growth of neutrality sentiment
Pres Truman present s Cong Medal to wife
Communists in Korea were massing in the Osan-SuwonIchon area as attacks by United Nations forces below Wonju inflicted heavy losses on the enemy. [1:8; map P. 2.]
Sec Snyder, George and Doughton conf; new tax bill seen; George comments; Truman lr to Sen Byrd stresses need to tax 'until it hurts,'
1951Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1885)[†]
Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first author from the United States to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was awarded "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." Lewis wrote six popular novels: Main Street (1920), Babbitt (1922), Arrowsmith (1925), Elmer Gantry (1927), Dodsworth (1929), and It Can't Happen Here (1935).
1951Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic (born 1890)[†]
Yoshio Nishina was a Japanese physicist who was called "the founding father of modern physics research in Japan". He led the efforts of Japan to develop an atomic bomb during World War II.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]