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US Steel and USWA sign 2-yr pact for 9-10$ pkg wage increase, with improved pension and welfare benefits; pact seen setting indus pattern as all major producers accept same terms
special Fed grand jury hands up presentment on 18-mo probe of charges by previous panel that UN was infiltrated by disloyal US citizens and that there were shortcomings in State Dept handling of inquiries from UN on suitability of US citizens employed or considered for posts; finds subversive activities and Communist infiltration drastically reduced by Adm security program; holds '52 allegations no longer true; cites '53 Exec Orders; urges vigilance; notes Leff defiance of subpoena
he and family get asylum in Mex Embassy, Guatemala City
McKenna tells Capehart com Powell had 8 arrests on charges including bad checks, embezzlement and larceny; repts record of arrests should have been forwarded to FHA but is missing from FHA files; says housing expediter Wyatt advised apt bldrs how to make 'windfalls' after leaving Govt employ; repts Wyatt law firm counseled bldrs of Sarasota project sponsored by his cousin E Franklin; gives to com Wyatt lr to C B Compton; Wyatt, in NY, denies charge on Sarasota project; McKenna charges FHA refused to enforce Fair Labor Standards Act at Labor Dept confs with FHA officials; Sen Byrd terms Powell key official in 'windfall' profits scandal, lr to Atty Gen Brownell; Powell being probed by FBI; again refuses to testify; his arrests listed
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1954Stephen Barlow, English organist, composer, and conductor[â ]
Dame Joanna Lamond Lumley is a British actress, presenter, author, television producer, activist and former model. She has won two BAFTA TV Awards for her role as Patsy Stone in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (1992â2012) and was nominated for the 2011 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the Broadway revival of La BĂȘte. In 2013, she received the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards and in 2017 she was honoured with the BAFTA Fellowship award.
1954Pierre Charles, Dominican educator and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Dominica (died 2004)[â ]
Pierre Charles was a Dominican politician who served as Prime Minister of Dominica from 2000 to his death in 2004. At the time of his death, he was also serving as Member of Parliament for Grand Bay since 1985.
1954Serzh Sargsyan, Armenian politician, 3rd President of Armenia[â ]
Serzh Azati Sargsyan is an Armenian politician who served as the third President of Armenia from 2008 to 2018, and twice as the Prime Minister of Armenia from 2007 to 2008 and again from 17 to 23 April 2018, when he was forced to resign in the 2018 Armenian revolution.
1954Wayne Swan, Australian academic and politician, 14th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia[â ]
Wayne Maxwell Swan is an Australian politician serving as the 25th and current National President of the Labor Party since 2018, previously serving as the 14th deputy prime minister of Australia and the deputy leader of the Labor Party from 2010 to 2013, and the treasurer of Australia from 2007 to 2013.
1954Andrass Samuelsen, Faroese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (born 1873)[â ]
Andrass Samuelsen was a Faroese politician and member of the Union Party. He was the first Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands after the autonomy of the Faroe Islands in 1948 (HeimastĂœrislĂłgin).
In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[â ]