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UMW Pres J L Lewis offers $10-million loan to USWA, wire to Murray; scores Taft and Taft-Hartley Law; Putnam hints Govt will grant price rise greater than $3 limit under Capehart Amendment if accord is reached
Gov Dewey rejects Council bid; Council acted without Mayor's support; city-state group continues work on long-range plan; Frontera stamp sales rept; Council seeks 1% rise on pari-mutuel racing pools
NYS CIO backs PPR; AFL opposed; pres T Murray arguments; ITU stand factor
asks Communists verify camps location
BLE warns rrs outside pact
1952Bob Ainsworth, English politician, Secretary of State for Defence[†]
Robert William Ainsworth is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Coventry North East from 1992 to 2015, and was the Secretary of State for Defence from 2009 to 2010. Following the general election in 2010 he was the Shadow Defence Secretary, but was replaced by Jim Murphy following the election of Labour leader Ed Miliband.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]