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Dem Natl Com chmn McKinney promises Fed action; lauds Sen Moody and Gov Williams aid to Mich, especially Detroit
HOLLYWOOD, Fla., Feb. 2 -- Three veteran players and a newcomer stroked their way into the final of the women's international four-ball golf tournament today. Miss Polly Riley of Fort Worth, Tex., and Miss Bea McWane of Birmingham, Ala., will meet Miss Marjorie Lindsay of Decatur, Ill., and Miss Pat Garner of Midland, Tex., in tomorrow's thirty-six-hole final.
The Fordham basketball team bounced back from last Wednesday's beating by St. John's to blast Georgetown last night at the Fordham gym, 70 -- 58. Bill Carlson led the Ram attack, scoring 22 points.
Intent, $183,750 Maturity
conf; GB pledges to back France on key issues; Eden in London
1952Harold L. Ickes, American journalist and politician, 32nd United States Secretary of the Interior (born 1874)[†]
Harold LeClair Ickes was an American administrator, politician and lawyer. He served as United States Secretary of the Interior for nearly 13 years from 1933 to 1946, the longest tenure of anyone to hold the office, and the second longest-serving Cabinet member in U.S. history after James Wilson. Ickes and Labor Secretary Frances Perkins were the only original members of the Roosevelt cabinet who remained in office for his entire presidency.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]