The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1942-01-08
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
January

January
s-New congress opens seventy-sev'
6-President asks "a1l out" aid to de.
mocracieS in congress message.
15-U. S. orders CLIO. to end strikes in
defense plants.
20-President Roosevelt inaugurated for
22-Justice McReynolds resigns from
U. S. Supreme court.
2FPresident meets British ambassa-
dor in precedent-breaking greeting
off U. S. coast.
February
So. S. Supreme court upholds wage
hour law.
8-House passes lease-lend bill. 26O-
9-Wendell willkie reaches U. S. after
inspection trip to British isles; backs
e.. U. S. aid to Britain.
25-CI.O. votes strike at four Bethle-
hem Steel plants.
28-Bethlehem Steel strike ended.
March
1-CLO. strike shuts Chicago plant of
. International Harvester.
11-Soft coal miners under John L. Lewis
open wage parley in New York with
operators.
President Roosevelt signs lease-lend
bill and flow of arms abroad begins.
12-President Roosevelt asks congress
for $1,000, 900, 900 to aid Britain I'M
der leaSe-lend bill.
ParalyZing cold and high winds
- sweep north central U. S., killing 66.
19-President Roosevelt appoints super
mediation board to settle labor dis
27-President signs $1,000. 900 aid-to-
Britain bill.
2s-U. S. aid pledged to Jugoslavia in
Axis resistance.
30-U. S. seizes IS Italian, German and
Danish ships in U. S. harbors on
charges of sabotage.
April
Limited Mine Workers of America
begin soft coal strike.
2-C.IO. calls strike in huge Ford
Motor company River Rouge plant;
$4,000 affected. Plant closed.
House votes inquiry of strikes in de.
Tense industries.
3-Scores hurt in bloody skirmishes at
strike-closed Ford plant in Detroit
4Ford closes A assembly plants and
factories.
6-Aliis- Chalmers strike definitely set
s-North Carolina, 35,OO0-ton battle.
ship, joins U. S. feet. First dread
naught completed for navy in 10
years.
1O-U. S. assumes protection Of Danish
colony of Greenland.
11-C.I.O. strike against Ford Motor
company is settled.
28-Charles A. ,Lindbergh resigns COM
mission as colonel in U. S. air corps
reserve. Aftermath of dispute with
FD.R.
29-Soft coal strike settled.
May
Treasury opens defense bond SELL
ing drive.
5F.D.R. orders large increase in pro.
duction of heavy bombers.
Coastguard ". ST. boards seven
Jugoslav ships in U. S. ports.
26-President Roosevelt signs the 85.per.
cent parity loan bill for wheat. cot
ton, cora, rice and tobacco.
27-President Roosevelt proclaimS an
unlimited national emergency dur.
ing a fireside chat He reasserted
the policy of freedom Of the seas"
30-New Jersey waterfront is swept by
$25.000.000 fire.
June
Market quota restrictions on wheat
approved by over 30 per cent Of
farmers In nation.
S-Fifth Of army plane production tied
up as CLIO. workers strike at the
North American Aviation company
in California. a-sat-,
9--Army takes over strike.bound North
American aviation plant at Ingle.
wood on orders Of F.D.R:
12-Justice Harlan Fiske Stone made
chief justice of Supreme court as
Robert Jackson and Sen. James
Byrnes get high court posts.
14-President Roosevelt ''freezes" all
NaZi and Italian assets.
16--U. S. orders Nazi consulates to
close by July TO- nj.
20 -Thirty-three die in sinking Of U. s.
submarine O-9.
20-E1rd signs union contract with
CLIO.
12-U. s. state department condemns
~ Maxi attack on Russia. -a..l -.
2e-Giant Bis successfully completes
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