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Dist Atty Hogan reveals Mayor J V Kenny conf with gangster A Strollo (T Bender) in effort to win Jersey City pier peace
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WASHINGTON, April 18 -- Charles Sawyer, Secretary of Commerce and operator of the seized steel industry, announced today that he would raise the steel workers' pay next Monday or Tuesday. It is probable that President Truman will direct him to give the full amount recommended by the Wage Stabilization Board.
WASHINGTON, April 18 -- A Republican move to block the use of appropriated funds to enforce President Truman's steel industry seizure order of April 8 threw the Senate into turmoil today. The intensity and strategy of the first skirmishes indicated that a major battle of this election-year session was building up.
subcom (gens) refers issues to staff officers(cols); Communist stand unchanged; UN sees no progress unless Communists propose something new
1952Simon Cowell, English conservationist and author (died 2024)[†]
Simon Maxwell Cowell was a British conservationist, television presenter, and author best known for hosting the Animal Planet documentary series Wildlife SOS from 1996 to 2014. He was the founder of Wildlife Aid Foundation, originally titled Wildlife Aid, which is a charitable organization dedicated to the "rescue, rehabilitation, and release of British wildlife".
1952Steve Conway, British singer (born 1921)[†]
Steve Conway was a British singer who rose to fame in the 1940s, following the end of the Second World War. Known for romantic ballads, he made dozens of recordings for EMI's Columbia label, appeared regularly on BBC Radio and toured the UK, before his career was cut short by his early death, aged 31, resulting from a heart condition. He has been described as "Britain's first post-war male heart-throb, a masculine equivalent of Vera Lynn in his sincerity and clear diction."
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]