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December 23, 1952

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Historical Context for December 23, 1952

In 1952, the world population was approximately 2,584,086,339 people[†]

Notable Births

Bill Kristol

1952William Kristol, American journalist, publisher, activist, and pundit[†]

William Kristol is an American neoconservative writer. A frequent commentator on several networks including CNN, he was the founder and editor-at-large of the political magazine The Weekly Standard. Kristol is editor-at-large of the center-right publication The Bulwark and is among the editors of its Substack publication that bears the same name. Since 2014, he has been the host of Conversations with Bill Kristol, an interview web program.

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Headlines from December 23, 1952

PEARSON SURE U. N. WILL OBTAIN TRUCE; Head of Assembly Gives Views as Session, in Closing Action, Rebuffs Soviet on P. O. W.'s All-Night Soviet Forensics in U. N. Lull a Communist Delegation PEARSON SURE U. N. WILL OBTAIN TRUCE

By Thomas J. Hamiltonspecial To the New York Times

Assembly, 45-5, rejects USSR resolution; Asian-Arab bloc abstains; India, GB, Ethiopia and Israel urge probe; Gross explains incident; repts probe in progress; Gromyko charges US shipped 1,500 POWs to US for atomic experiments, committed other atrocities

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PINAY QUITS OFFICE AS BACKERS WAVER ON TESTS OF POLICY; But Auriol Defers Acceptance of Fall of French Cabinet -- Tries to Remedy Crisis RIFT PUT REGIME IN PERIL Threat of Popular Republicans to Abstain in Budget Vote Arouses Premier's Pique PINAY QUITS OFFICE AS BACKERS WAVER

By Lansing Warrenspecial To the New York Times

Premier Pinay resignation laid to split with Popular Repubs on disposal of surplus in family allotment receipts; he urged using excess to cover deficits in other parts of soc security system

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UNIONS FORCE ARMY TO REVISE 'HOUSING'; Threaten to Stop Construction on Battery Sites if Soldiers Erect Prefabricated Huts UNIONS FORCE ARMY TO REVISE 'HOUSING'

By Alexander Feinberg

AFL bldg union reprs threaten to halt all bldg on 52d AAA Brigade gun sites, NYC met area, if troops erect prefab huts, conf with Brig Gen Tarrant; troops get Jamesway tents; illus; unions at S sector of Eastern AAA Command approve troop labor; shipping costs delay transfer of prefabs there

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20 DOCK WORKERS, 15 WITH 'GHOST' JOBS, SEIZED IN BROOKLYN; Racketeers Put on Payroll to Get Them Onto Piers to Reap Gambling and Usury Profits AIDED BY 5 SUPERVISORS Latter Reportedly Pocketed All Pay of 'Phantoms' in Return for 'Covering Them Up' 20 DOCK WORKERS ARRESTED IN KINGS

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20 Atlantic Stevedoring Co employes arrested, Bklyn; Asst Dist Atty Helfand says 15 were carried on co payroll as phantoms and ran gambling and loan sharking rackets; wages kept by 5 others, co supervisors; Leibowitz holds 20 in bail; sets trial; men named in secret indictment by grand jury; Judge McCullen sets $10,000 bail each for Clemente and Cosmos; Hudson County grand jury hears testimony on bombing of Local 1247 hdqrs, '51; Jersey City Police Chief McNamara, other officials and tavern owner J A Muller appear; 20 dockers listed

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