FDR Faces Congress Split on Crop Insurance and Regulation
Congress and the administration clash over crop insurance funds and government control of business. Senate cuts farm aid to liquidate the system while House regroups on Guffey coal regulation. Postwar planning probes to curb government participation. Vacation pressure pushes for year-end budget deals and a new tax approach for wartime incomes. President Roosevelt vexed by Vinson pay increase ruling as advisers seek a softer path.
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Executive Branch
Senate
House
Means
Guffey
Roosevelt
United Mine Workers
George
D.-Ga
Pri Vate
Cah
Treasury
D. C
Fred M. Vinson
Iowa
D.C
Yank Uses Propeller As Weapon in Air Duel
War department records recount how 20 year old pilot Jack Bade of Elk River Minnesota used his propeller equipped P 40 plane as a buzzsaw to shred enemy Zeros over Bog Ainville island last month. Bade was knocked unconscious and wounded but returned to duty driving off the Japanese by spinning his propeller into their planes.
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Washington
INS
War Department
Tient
Jack Bade
Elk River
Minn
Bogg- Ainville Island
Blanc
Wallace Jones Feud Escalates in RFC Clash
Washington reports a week of verbal sparring between Wallace and Jones over BEW policy, with Jones accusing Wallace of biased decisions and the RFC chief denying improper purchases. Senate scrutiny grows as Perkins counters and Bridges calls for a military affairs inquiry into BEW operations.
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RFC
Wallace-Jones
Washington
Jones
Mmni
Beary Wallace
mit @ new
Wallace
Board of Economic Welfare
Jones Reron
Struction Finance Corporation
BEW
RFC Taxi
Mike
Rip van Winkie
Senate
Senate Appropriations Committee
Perkins
Bridges
Senate Committee On Best
Air Battle Over Sicily Gunner Downs Seven Planes
Staff Sgt. Benjamin F. Warner II, of San Francisco, a Fortress gunner, shot down seven enemy planes in a fierce air battle over Gerbini Sicily on Monday. He praised his crew and cited the mission as possibly a record for a single gunner on one flight.
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Benjamin F. Warmer II
San Francisco
Gerbini
Sicily
Warner
Treasury
Morgenthau
Liberator Pilots Protest Fortress Credit Gap
Liberator crews in North Africa complain they receive less recognition than Flying Fortresses for raids over Sicily and Naples. Pilots like Dave Cochran and Leroy Benze dialogue the disparity, noting Liberators fly higher and farther with heavier loads, yet are undernamed in communiques and press portrayals.
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George Tucker
North Africa
Dave Cochran
Chendale
Calif
America
Sicily
Forts
Leroy H. Benze
Waters Town
Wilsid
Africa
Herolam
Italy
Naples
Fort Survives Lone Wolf Raid Flying Fortress backs defend Germans
A B 17 Flying Fortress piloted by Capt John T Ford of Texas survived a lone raid against Germany. Despite engine trouble and heavy anti aircraft fire the crew shot down several enemy planes including a Focke Wulf. The plane sustained major damage yet returned to base after a hard landing near a highway.
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Washington
Germany
John T. Ford
Ossexen
Texas
Ford
Horn
Joseph T. Turner
Kansas City
Focke ‘Wits
M. G. Jamison
Marion
Ind
Chester 1
Privitt
Lubbock
Wiliam EB. Anderson
Dallas
William M. Miller
Utica
Patel
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Reg J
Iaid Jones
Jolie
Tive
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JM Cheles
Hrezil
Jmullty
REC
BREW
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U.S
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Benjamin F. Warmer
San Bernardino
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Schmitt
Jess
Messerschmitt
Rhap
Posiion
Prostate
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Eazy House
W. Commerce St
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