Record Breaking 1943 Tax Bill Clears Final Hurdle
The 1943 tax measure passes Congress raising revenues to 6.88 billion and widening rates. introduces a Victory tax and lower exemptions while expanding excise taxes. Draft rules push 18 and 19 year olds into service, with debates over draft priority and deferments for students and education.
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United Nations
Africa
U. S
Senate
House
Treasury
John Q
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Taft
Barkley
Pacific Showdown: Buin and Guadalcanal in World War II battles
Reports detail Buin in Bougainville as a key Japanese base and the Allied push toward Guadalcanal. U S scouts gauge Japanese strength while Port Moresby air forces and long-range bomber runs complicate the campaign.
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Solomon Islands
South Pacific
Buin
Solomons
United Nations
Bougainville
Guadalcanal
U. S
Port Moresby
New Guinea
U.S
Gandalcanal
U S Troops and RAF Use Liberia as War Base
The report notes U S troops are in Liberia and RAF planes operate there to hunt Nazi submarines. Liberia’s location near Dakar and the Brazil bulge makes it a strategic base for protecting Allied interests as Africa becomes a theater of war.
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U. S. Atlantic
Africa
U. S
Negro Republic of Liberia
Dakar
French West Africa
Bulge
Brazil
Liberia
RAF
Nature
French Workers Hired by Gestapo Demand Sparks Crisis
Pierre Laval, head of the Vichy regime, agreed to a Nazi demand for more French specialists in German war plants. Reports say the Vichy government naturalized 500 Gestapo agents to aid in rounding up unwilling workers in unoccupied France as judgment loomed.
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Pierre Laval
Vichy
Hitler
Gestapo
France
Quincy Gunner Details Battle With Nimitz
Worcester sailor Lieut Com Harry Heneberger aged 39, a gunnery officer on the cruiser Quincy, narrates the sinking off the Solomons to Admiral Chester Nimitz. The Quincy and two sister ships were overwhelmed by Japanese forces.
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Harry Heneberger
Worcester
Mass
Quincy
Chester Nimitz
Solomons
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