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Douds decision on election awaited; Bradley appts trustee for Local 1247, Jersey City; clashes with ILA acting pres Long on charge he led move to block gangsters expulsion prior to union ouster by AFL
Wagner fiscal program provides full complement
speculation on Eisenhower message
Swedish repr urges release of all POWs after Jan 22, NNRC meeting; Hull en route to Formosa for talks with Pres Chiang Kai-shek on disposition of anti-Communist Chinese POWs; Far East Air Forces comdr Gen Weyland plans trip to Formosa; speculation
1st heavy snow; 7 in predicted; snow removal crews alerted; rds hazardous; illus
1954Jaak Aaviksoo, Estonian physicist and politician, 26th Estonian Minister of Defence[†]
Jaak Aaviksoo is an Estonian politician and physicist, a former rector of the University of Tartu and Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech).
1954Kailash Satyarthi, Indian engineer, academic, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian social reformer who campaigned against child labor in India and advocated the universal right to education.
1954Oscar Straus, Austrian composer (born 1870)[†]
Oscar Nathan Straus was a Viennese composer of operettas, film scores, and songs. He also wrote about 500 cabaret songs, chamber music, and orchestral and choral works. His original name was actually Strauss, but for professional purposes he deliberately omitted the final 's'. He wished not to be associated with the musical Strauss family of Vienna. However, he did follow the advice of Johann Strauss II in 1898 about abandoning the prospective lure of writing waltzes for the more lucrative business of writing for the theatre.
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]