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April 24, 1957

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JURY BIDS COUNCIL CONSIDER OUSTER OF CUNNINGHAM; Report Charges He 'Abused' Office by Serving Clients Before City Departments CHARTER BREACH IS SEEN Bronx Member's Resignation Is Predicted--Federal Tax Investigation Under Way Charter Held Violated Prosecution Is Barred Tax Inquiry Begun GRAND JURY STUDY HITS CUNNINGHAM Hearings To Be Open 24 Witnesses Heard

By Charles G. Bennettthe New York Times

grand jury accuses Cunningham of having 'repeatedly abused' office; urges Council weigh expulsion; finds he violated Charter by representing Perma Co and pres Rose before Real Estate Bur, Marine and Aviation Dept, Sanitation Dept, '53-54; Kreutzer asks Dist Atty Hogan to help get grand jury mins; Tenney findings on Cunningham recalled; IRS probes Cunningham as result of his assertion to Tenney and grand jury that he kept no financial records on cases he handled as atty; he failed to give details on $5,500-6,000 of $11,500 that grand jury contends he got from Rose and Perma; jury holds Perma was permitted 'through Cunningham intervention' to operate Bronx dump despite violations of Sanitation Dept terms; transactions detailed; jury says Cunningham denied at all times that he got fees from Rose or Perma for appearances before city agencies

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SENATE WEIGHING WIDER U.S.I.A. CUT; May Propose a Reduction of as Much as $50,000,000, Exceeding House Slash 'Worst Kind of Economy' First Item of Business SENATE WEIGHING WIDER U.S.I.A CUT Larson's Role Questioned

By William S. White Special To the New York Times

WASHINGTON, April 23-- The United States Information Agency's $144,000,000 budget is in grave trouble in the Senate. It well may be reduced there more than the $37,900,000 cut voted by the House of Representatives.

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U.S. WILL REPORT TO U.N. ON TALKS IN EGYPT ON SUEZ; Dulles Says Security Council Will Be Informed Soon-- Bars Making 'Issue' Notes Council's 6 Principles Opposition Is Foreseen U.S. to Report on Suez Talks Before Security Council Soon Guarantees at Issue U.S. Move Expected Today

By Dana Adams Schmidt Special To the New York Times

Dulles says US will rept to UN Security Council on talks with Egypt, news conf; stresses US does not intend to raise Canal problem as issue or seek any UN action; says US has no objection to US ships using Canal now providing they exercise prudence and pay tolls to Egypt under protest; Hare confs with Fawzi; reptdly tells him Egyptian plan still does not meet Western demands

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Notable Births

Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed

1957Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed, Pakistani-English businessman and politician[†]

Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed, is a British former politician. As a member of the Labour Party, he was appointed a life peer in 1998.

Historical Events

Suez Crisis

1957Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.[†]

The Suez Crisis, also known as the Second Arab–Israeli War, the Tripartite Aggression in the Arab world and the Sinai War in Israel, was a British–French–Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956. Israel invaded on 29 October, having done so with the primary objective of re-opening the Straits of Tiran and the Gulf of Aqaba as the recent tightening of the eight-year-long Egyptian blockade further prevented Israeli passage. After issuing a joint ultimatum for a ceasefire, the United Kingdom and France joined the Israelis on 5 November, seeking to depose Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser and regain control of the Suez Canal, which Nasser had earlier nationalised by transferring administrative control from the foreign-owned Suez Canal Company to Egypt's new government-owned Suez Canal Authority. Shortly after the invasion began, the three countries came under heavy political pressure from both the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as from the United Nations, eventually prompting their withdrawal from Egypt. The Crisis demonstrated that the United Kingdom and France could no longer pursue their independent foreign policy without consent from the United States. Israel's four-month-long occupation of the Egyptian-occupied Gaza Strip and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula enabled it to attain freedom of navigation through the Straits of Tiran, but the Suez Canal was closed from October 1956 to March 1957.

Historical Context for April 24, 1957

In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]