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US Sup Ct unanimously holds 14th Amendment bars forcible extraction of contents of prisoner's stomach to obtain conviction, A R Rochin case
MUNSAN, Korea, Thursday, Jan. 3 -- The Communists today flatly rejected an Allied proposal for an exchange of prisoners of war and civilians.
Govt revs collectivization policy to gain peasant cooperation and raise output; institutes reforms; will stress traditional type of coop which retains peasant control; Croatian Premier Bararic comment
Gov Dewey rules out any tax cuts, conf with Legis leaders and advisers
1952Esperanza Aguirre, Spanish civil servant and politician, 3rd President of the Community of Madrid[†]
Esperanza Aguirre y Gil de Biedma is a Spanish politician. As member of the People's Party (PP), she served as President of the Senate between 1999 and 2002, as President of the Community of Madrid between 2003 and 2012 and as Minister of Education and Culture (1996–1999). She also chaired the People's Party of the Community of Madrid between 2004 and 2016.
1952Gianfranco Fini, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs[†]
Gianfranco Fini is a retired Italian politician who served as the president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 2008 to 2013 and Deputy Prime Minister from 2001 to 2006. He is the former leader of the far-right Italian Social Movement, the conservative National Alliance, and the center-right Future and Freedom party. He was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in Silvio Berlusconi's government from 2001 to 2006.
1952Jim Ross, American professional wrestling commentator[†]
James William Ross is an American professional wrestling commentator, sports announcer, and podcaster. He is signed with All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he serves as a commentator as well as an analyst and senior advisor. Ross is best known for a long and distinguished career as a play-by-play commentator for WWE. Known affectionately by WWE fans as "Good Ol' JR", Ross has been labeled as the greatest wrestling commentator of all time. Ross, while in WWE, was occasionally involved in storylines and also participated in nine wrestling matches from 1999 to 2011.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]