Lobbying Heat and Payroll Projections Stir Washington
The piece examines Standard Oil’s high level lobbying to secure a 14.5 million dollar steel shipment priority for Venezuela, alleging pressure on Admiral Stark and War Production to gain A-1-C status. It also revises a payroll estimate for John L. Lewis’s family to 110 500 annual take and notes Wayne Coy’s impending promotion and cotton demand rising to 13.5 million bales for the year.
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Washington, D. C
Standard Oil
Washington
Venezuela
John N. Bohannon
White House
Standard
Texas
Louisiana
California
Bohannon
Admiral Stark
Naval Operations
Stark
Donald Nelson
State Department
Lendlase Administration
Board of Economic Warfare
John L. Lewis
Lewis
John L
Floyd Bell
Bell
U.M.W
C.S.O
Wayne Coy
Indiana
Coy
Office of Emergency Management
Bataan Falls as Japanese Offensive Ends
The fall of Bataan ends a costly American Filipino stand with 36 583 defenders overwhelmed by numerically superior Japanese forces. The retreat toward Australia and shifts in command mark a turning point as Japanese advances press through Manila Cavite and Luzon while Burma and Rangoon retreat shape the broader war outlook.
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Bataan
Stimson
Wainwright
Philippine
Luzon
Manila
Cavite
Masaharu Homma
MacArthur
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Australia
Commonwealth
Pacific
Burma
Stillwell
Rangoon
Irawaddy
Akyab
Calcutta
Bay of Bengal
India
Labor Front Unites on War Aims at Pittsburgh
The AFL and CIO leaders united on a common war effort in Pittsburgh for victory. Roosevelt proposed a 48 hour week with 40 hours paid at normal rate and one extra day at time and a half while forbidding the seventh day. William Green endorsed the plan as labor weighs wage limits and formal recognition of the 40 hour principal. Russian claims of 400 plus German planes shot down and RAF bombing of German industry accompany reports on the eastern front and supply lines. The New Deal touts gains despite tax and labor opposition, with profits on war contracts being taxed to curb excess profits.
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A.F.L
C.I.0
Pittsburgh
America
Congress
Roosevelt
United Automobile Workers
William Green
The
R.A.F
Berlin
Red Air Force
Murmansk
White House
Senate
Hyde Park
India Faces Delicate Decisions On War Government
The piece outlines India’s hesitation over a postwar national government under General Wavell with an Indian defense minister, amid Nehru’s resistance to British authority and Jinnah’s push for separate Muslim freedom. It notes Cripps’s lingering plan, hopes of unity, and domestic tax debates shaping wartime policy.
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India
Sir Stafford Cripps
Churchill
Pandit Nehru
All-India Congress
Britain
Stafford Cripps
Archibald P. Wavell
Nehru
England
Mohammed Sir Jinnah
Gift from China shapes Mrs. Roosevelt’s emboldened hope
Madame Chiang Kai-shek sends eight immortals as a peace symbol. Eleanor Roosevelt shares the letter of confidence from Chungking. She reflects on wartime unity, a Wellesley visit, and domestic war work as she plans co operatives, garden planting, and school lunch support while noting cultural exchanges and a Liberty article about her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Owen Lattimore
Chiang Kai-shek
Generalissimo of
Chungking
Szechuan
Mrs. Roosevelt
Mayling Soon Chiang
Madame Chiang Kai-shek
Raymond Clapper
Liberty
Weekly News Analysis: Expected Defeat on Bataan Cited
Edward C. Wayne argues the anticipated collapse on Bataan marks the war’s heaviest reverse. He notes labor leaders present a united front to sustain production at a high peak despite strain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bataan
Gasoline deliveries cut to 66 percent on coasts
The War Production Board reduced gasoline supplies to East and West coast curtailment areas from 80 percent to 66 percent of prior allocations. In New York, Franklin Junior Roosevelt, a Navy lieutenant, was hospitalized with a severe bronchitis case.
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Washington
The
War Production Board
New York
Roosevelt
Navy
Franklin Junior
Naval Hospital
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Western Newspaper Union
C.1.0
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National Labor Unity
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