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July 21, 1955

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TALBOTT PUSHED FIRM'S BUSINESS, LETTERS INDICATE; Senate Gets Correspondence of Air Secretary Showing He Sought to Aid Mulligan PUBLIC HEARING WEIGHED Official Reported Pondering Severing Relations With New York Company SENATORS STUDY TALBOTT LETTERS Among Air Secretary Talbott's Letters in Senate Investigators' Files

By W. H. Lawrencespecial To the New York Times

subcom has lrs and documents purporting to show he promoted from his Pentagon office new business for Mulligan co; Talbott reptd weighing ending Mulligan co ties; refuses to comment to NY Times reporter; wife chides reporter; lrs show that Talbott wrote or phoned industrialists after becoming Sec suggesting they consider retailing Mulligan co services; that he had role in getting business of Avco Mfg Co, Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp, Olin Industries, Greyhound Corp and Libbey-Owens Ford Glass Co for Mulligan co; that he urged co expansion because of business growth; his correspondence with J W Hanes and N S McCarthy cited; Talbott approach to Chrysler Corp, his lr to R G Martin complaining about developments in cos he had left to become Sec noted; Mulligan co files show continuing correspondence between Talbott and Mulligan on new and pending business; Mulligan memo lists firms to be discussed with Talbott; Avco head Emanuel enthusiasm for Mulligan co work noted; Talbott lr to Mulligan, on Dept stationery, reveals his concern over best approach to Ford Motor Co; McClellan says Talbott voluntarily gave correspondence to subcom; 3 Talbott lrs illus

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RISE TO $1 AN HOUR IN MINIMUM WAGE IS VOTED BY HOUSE; Senate Action Is Duplicated by Ballot of 362 to 54 but Later Date Is Set HOUSE VOTES RISE IN MINIMUM WAGE

By Special to The New York Times

House, 173-168, rejects plan to raise hrly floor to 90Âą in '56, $1 in '57; 188-145, rejects 90Âą hrly floor; 193-93, rejects $1.10 hrly floor; House, 362-54, approves bill raising hrly minimum to $1; White House silent on whether Pres will sign or veto bill; pay rises put at $560 million spread among 2.1 million workers; main effect seen in South

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S.E.C. Head Won't Disclose Adams' Dixon-Yates Talks; S.E.C. HEAD BALKS AT SENATE INQUIRY

By Russell Bakerspecial To the New York Times

Armstrong again refuses to disclose talks with Adams; pleads privilege on whether he conferred with him on current testimony; says Adams intervened in case, June, and made pol refs in request to defer House debate; concedes indirectly he considered White House interest in case which he would have denied to other interested parties; says Brownell, G D Morgan are Govt attys who were to decide on intervention in Wenzell hearing; O'Mahoney scores White House intervention

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Notable Births

Howie Epstein

1955Howie Epstein, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (died 2003)[†]

Howard Norman Epstein was an American musician best known as a bassist with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

Dannel Malloy

1955Dannel Malloy, American lawyer and politician, 88th Governor of Connecticut[†]

Dannel Patrick Malloy is an American politician who served as the 88th governor of Connecticut from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he chaired the Democratic Governors Association from 2016 to 2017. In July 2019, he began his tenure as the Chancellor of the University of Maine System.

Taco (musician)

1955Taco, Indonesian-born Dutch singer and entertainer[†]

Taco Ockerse, known mononymously as Taco, is an Indonesian-born Dutch musician and entertainer who started his career in Germany. He scored a global hit song in 1982 with a version of "Puttin' on the Ritz".

Béla Tarr

1955BĂ©la Tarr, Hungarian director, producer, and screenwriter[†]

Béla Tarr is a Hungarian filmmaker. Debuting with the film Family Nest (1979), Tarr began his directorial career with a brief period of what he refers to as "social cinema", aimed at telling everyday stories about ordinary people, often in the style of cinema vérité. Over the next decade, he changed the cinematic style and thematic elements of his films. Tarr has been interpreted as having a pessimistic view of humanity; the characters in his works are often cynical, and have tumultuous relationships with one another in ways critics have found to be darkly comic.

Historical Context for July 21, 1955

In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]