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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tents & Portents. Underway in Srinagar was a convention of Sheikh Abdullah's Kashmir National Conference Political Movement, which has been running the Indian-occupied part of Kashmir ever since New Delhi sent troops into the region two years ago this month. As 650 national conference delegates tented on the...
The commission's final gesture, an arbitration proposal backed by the U.S. and Britain, had been accepted by Pakistan, rejected by India. Abdullah's delegates passed a resolution denouncing the "arbitration offer sponsored by President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee" as "yet another device to deny freedom to...
Died. James Francis Thaddeus ("Jefty") O'Connor, 63, onetime U.S. Comptroller of the Currency (1933-38); of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. A loyal pre-convention (1932) Roosevelt supporter, O'Connor was eventually rewarded with a federal judgeship after his defeat in the California gubernatorial primary.
The National Student Association is beginning the new academic season with a heavy schedule of projects that were hatched or discussed at its convention in Urbana, Illinois this summer. The Harvard chapter, which belongs to the Boston area of the New England Region of the NSA, is supposed to perform...
In Manhattan's grimy St. Nicholas Arena, where many an aspiring club fighter has had his ears cauliflowered and his brains souffléed, the National Maritime Union's tough Joe Curran squared off again last week against his Communist rebels. But Joe, who kicked loose from the...