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January

January
president Roosevelt calls for unity
among Allies, stresses ''the supreme me-
cessity of planning what is to come
after the war
+U. S. Supreme court frees Thomas
Pendergast, Democratic political leader
of Kansas City. under statute of limita-
tions ruling.
burn speaker of house for third term;
Pleasure driving banned in eastern
states: Fuel oil ration reduced rs per
cent.
torial rights in China.
12-OPA sets corn ceilings at approximately
81 bushel.
2S-Joint draft system, by which men can be
inducted into navy, marines and coast
guard as well as army, announced.
February
8-National income in 1912 was S113.824,.
100000 as compared with $94500. .000, 900
in 1941.
minimum in labor shortage areas.
12-President Roosevelt promises stepped.
up attacks on Europe and Japan.
18-Mme. Chang Kai-Shek addresses Con-
greSS asking for more vigorous prose-
cution of the war on Japan.
20-Dried foods rationed, effective March l.
23-Secretary of Agriculture Wickard sus-
pends wheat quotas.
March
2u. s. and Chile representatives sign
lend.lease agreement:
7-Draft classification All for men be-
tween 38 and As ended.
11-Lend-lease extension to July. 1914. signed
by President.
4-Establishment of naval base at Casa.
blanca announced by navy.
25-Chester Davis named Food Admins
traitor.
ga critical shortage of doctors is devel-
oping." an Owl survey reveals.
April
s-President moves to check imitation by
executive order freezing wages and for.
bidding war workers to change jobs
10-Feed corn, ceiling prices raised from
$102 a bushel to SLOT.
11-A bill permitting the national debt limit
to rise to 210 billion dollars, and a rider
repeating the $4,000 net salary limit be.
comes law without Presidents signature.
20-President Roosevelt confers on war and
postwar problems with President Ca
30-Soft coal miners of United Mine Workers
union reject President Roosevelt's order;
U. S. breaks relations with Martinique.
May
Federal government takes over closed
coal mines.
11-Churchill arrives In Washington for war
conference. GeE
13-Merger between Western Union and
Postal Telegraph is announced.
26-NLRB approves eight cent an hour
raise for more than million non-oper.
ating railway workers.
H-MachinistS' union, with 565, 900 members,
withdrawS from the AFL.
June
3United Nations food conference ends.
Goal miners of the United Mine Workers
union return to work.
10-President signs "pay-as-you-go" income
tax bill.
21-Riots in Detroit between white and
colored mobs are suppressed by Federal
troops, after more than "a hours of
Coal miners strike for third time since
May l.
23-President Roosevelt threatens to draft
strikers in essential industries.
28-Judge Marvin Jones succeeds Chester
Davis as War Food Administrator.
29-Federal court of appeals in Chicago
grants new trials to six persons convicted
Of aiding Herbert Haupt, executed spy.
30-Five senators appointed to visit war
zones and report on u. S. Army and
Allies; Stocks on New York exchange
reach three-year high
July
House rejects amendment to Labor-Fed.
eral Security bill. thereby cutting off
funds for National Youth Administration;
President Roosevelt gives last minute
reprieve to Max Stephen, sentenced to
death for aiding escape of Nazi flyer.
7-Gen. Henri Giraud. French commander
of Northwest Africa. arrives in Wash
ington.
l5-The Board of Economic Warfare is
abolished. and its functions transferred