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April 17, 1956

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Headlines from April 17, 1956

DEMOCRATS ANGRY; President Is Assailed Personally--Some in G.O.P. Back Him Natural Gas Veto Recalled CAMPAIGN FIGHT OPENED BY VETO Johnson Is Critical 'A Difference of Opinion'

By William S. White Special To the New York Times

WASHINGTON, April 16-- President Eisenhower broke fundamentally with the Democratic Congress for the first time today in his veto of the farm bill. A great election-year fight was at once opened.

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U.S. DISAPPOINTS BAGHDAD ALLIES; Plan to Discuss Economic Help With Alliance Evokes Criticism by 2 Premiers U.S. Views Stressed U.S. DISAPPOINTS BAGHDAD ALLIES

By Sam Pope Brewer Special To the New York Times

TEHERAN, Iran, April 16-- The United States told the Baghdad Pact countries today it would discuss economic cooperation through the pact organisation.

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Tax Offices Here Are Busy on the Last Day Before Double Deadline; TAX OFFICES HERE BUSY AT DEADLINE Tax Returns Flood Albany

By Unknown Author

taxpayers seek last-min help on returns, NYC; illus; rept on filings

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Auto Insurance Bill Signed by Governor; GOVERNOR SIGNS CAR SURETY BILL Governor's Objection

By Warren Weaver Jr. Special To the New York Times

ALBANY, April 16--One of the bitterest legislative battles of the postwar decade ended today when a compulsory automobile insurance bill became law.

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Bulgarian Premier Quits; Victim of Anti-Stalin Drive; Ousting of Chervenkov, Disciple of Dictator, Is Viewed as Sop to Tito STALINIST LEADER QUITS IN BULGARIA

By Special to The New York Times

Bulgarian Premier Chervenkov resignation seen sop to Tito; Yugoslav parliamentary delegation welcomed, Sofia

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Notable Births

1956Colin Tyre, Lord Tyre, Scottish lawyer and judge^[†]

Colin Jack Tyre, Lord Tyre, is a Scottish lawyer, former President of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe, and a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland.

Historical Context for April 17, 1956

In 1956, the world population was approximately 2,795,409,994 people^[†]