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Brig Gen Sarnoff slated as head; Sec Lovett Aug 15 directive calling for study noted
s, Boston, on communism and need for truth in pol to biggest crowd of campaign; whistle-stop ss, other Mass and NH towns
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 -- John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, ripped into the Wage Stabilization Board today for cutting 40 cents off the $1.90 a day increase for his soft coal miners and declared the men would go back to work when the operators honored their contract in full.
Chinese gain Pinpoint Hill after 5 attacks; SK 9th Div fails to storm Iron Horse Mt
urges meeting challenge of world communism by extending dem; defines Dem concept of Govt and faith in future, fireside chat
1952Julie Dash, American director, producer, and screenwriter[†]
Julie Ethel Dash is an American filmmaker, music video and commercial director, author, and website producer. Dash received her MFA in 1985 at the UCLA Film School and is one of the graduates and filmmakers known as the L.A. Rebellion.
1952Jeff Goldblum, American actor and producer[†]
Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum is an American actor and musician. He has starred in some of the highest-grossing films of all time, such as Jurassic Park (1993) and Independence Day (1996), as well as their sequels.
1952Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (born 1874)[†]
Ernst Rüdin was a Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, eugenicist and Nazi, rising to prominence under Emil Kraepelin and assuming the directorship at the German Institute for Psychiatric Research in Munich. While he has been credited as a pioneer of psychiatric inheritance studies, he also argued for, designed, justified and funded the mass sterilization and clinical killing of adults and children.
In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]