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Truman cancels scheduled s before ASNE to avoid competing with MacArthur s to Cong
Controller Joseph says city budget will not meet voluntary hosps plea to raise payments for care of city patients
Affray (Brit submarine): with 75 aboard found sunk in Eng Channel; rescue ships get faint messages; map
Yovner-Strayer study for Mayor's mgt survey urges dropping plans for 6 'unneeded' schools costing $12,461,000, interim rept to Controller Lazarus; sees big waste of funds in under-use of bldgs and poor repair and maintenance; calls Plant Operation Bur and other agencies inefficent, asks apptmt of Deputy School Supt for bddgs
1951Óscar Carmona, Portuguese field marshal and politician, 11th President of Portugal (born 1869)[†]
António Óscar de Fragoso Carmona was the 11th president of Portugal, serving from 1926 until his death in 1951. A Portuguese army officer and politician, he previously served as prime minister of Portugal from 1926 to 1928, served as the minister of war, in late 1923 and in 1926, and as minister of foreign affairs in 1926.
In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people[†]