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March 9, 1954

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DULLES CONDEMNS REDS FOR INTRIGUE IN THE AMERICAS; He Warns Caracas Meeting of Communist Peril While Defining U. S. Resolution HIS POSITION BOLSTERED Speech Impresses Delegates--Secretary Voices Plea for 'Appropriate' Steps DULLES ASSAILS RED 'TREACHERY'

By Sam Pope Brewerspecial To the New York Times

Dulles denounces internatl communism in hemisphere as 'alien intrigue and treachery,' s; notes resolutions provisions; in reply to Toriello, at length defines internatl communism; affirms conspiracy seeks to tie hemisphere to USSR orbit; sketches growth of USSR influence since '39; denies US fights freedom of ideas; avoids direct criticism of Guatemala and denies he accuses any govt or persons; speech seen strengthening US position; Toriello comments; Dulles cancels Phila speech date to stay till end of debate; Mex offers amendment to US resolution to condemn any totalitarian intervention; 1 Mex delegate sees US draft curbing pol thought; Dominican Repub, Paraguay, Uruguay, Cuba and Brazil back US

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N.L.R.B. ASKS COURT TO FINE PIER UNION $100,000 IN STRIKE; Contempt Charged in Failure to End Blockade of Truck Movements as Ordered LEADERS REPORT TRYING But the Walkout Spreads -Loading of 6 Army Ships Is Halted in Brooklyn N.L.R.B. ASKS COURT TO FINE PIER UNION

By A. H. Raskin

NLRB asks contempt citation and $100,000 fine against ILA and 3 officials; names Bowers, Local 874 agent W Ackalitis and Local 791 sec-treas W P Lynch; Fed Judge Edelstein studies papers; Bradley fails to end walkout; dockers at Bklyn Army Base out; Army may use troops; Anthony Anastasia urges members of his Bklyn Local 327-1 to return to work; 4 ships diverted to Phila and Boston because of strike; office employes unload Cunard liner Mauritania; 2 SIU seamen testify A Ackalitis ordered knife attack on them during Dec election, NLRB examiner's hearing

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Notable Births

Carlos Ghosn

1954Carlos Ghosn, Brazilian-Lebanese-French business executive[†]

Carlos Ghosn is a businessman and former automotive executive. He was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Michelin North America, chairman and CEO of Renault, chairman of AvtoVAZ, chairman and CEO of Nissan, and chairman of Mitsubishi Motors.

Bobby Sands

1954Bobby Sands, PIRA volunteer, Irish republican politician, and hunger striker (died 1981)[†]

Robert Gerard Sands was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland. Sands helped to plan the 1976 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing in Dunmurry, which was followed by a gun battle with the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Sands was arrested while trying to escape and sentenced to 14 years for firearms possession.

Jock Taylor

1954Jock Taylor, Scottish motorcycle racer (died 1982)[†]

Jock Taylor was a Scottish World Champion motorcycle sidecar racer.

Notable Deaths

Vagn Walfrid Ekman

1954Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer and academic (born 1874)[†]

Vagn Walfrid Ekman was a Swedish oceanographer.

Historical Events

McCarthyism

1954McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.[†]

McCarthyism is a political practice defined by the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s, heavily associated with the Second Red Scare, also known as the McCarthy Era. After the mid-1950s, U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy, who had spearheaded the campaign, gradually lost his public popularity and credibility after several of his accusations were found to be false. The U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren made a series of rulings on civil and political rights that overturned several key laws and legislative directives, and helped bring an end to the Second Red Scare.

Historical Context for March 9, 1954

In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]