Inflation curb: Roosevelt to Byrnes
President Roosevelt named Associate Justice James F. Byrnes as head of the new Office of Economic Stabilization to curb inflation and stabilize wages, salaries, profits, and farm prices. Leon Henderson ordered rent freezes and the OPA will enforce national rent regulation while preventing evictions from sales. The wage policy prohibits wage decreases below the peak level between January 1 and September 15, 1942 unless correcting inequalities.
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Roosevelt
James F. Byrnes
Byrnes
The
Supreme Court
Office of Economic Stabilization
Leon Henderson
Office of Price Administration
Henderson
OES
OPA
Bush Soldiers Strike Back In New Guinea And Nauru
Rugged Australian bush soldiers infiltrated to recapture Nauru in the Owen Stanley range and then pushed north toward Menari. Allied air attacks hindered Japanese forces, while heavy bombing hit routes and ships at Rabaul and Bougainville. Guadalcanal defenses strengthened as whiskey distilleries shift to wartime alcohol production.
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Japg
New Guinea
Nauru
Owen Stanley
Menari
Port Moresby
Rabaul
New Britain
Buin
Bougainville
Solomons
Guadalcanal
Stalin presses for second front as Soviet gains push on
Soviet dispatches report continued German pressure on the Volga and praise for local advances around Stalingrad. Stalin again urges Allied opening of a second front while Moscow radio notes Soviet success west of Moscow and a major push in Stalingrad, with German losses cited. Broadcasts claim Stalin shifted defense duties to Marshal Shaposhnikov.
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Josef Stalin
Russia
Volga
Stalingrad
Moscow Radio
Moscow
Red Army
Stalin
Vichy
France
Turkey
Marshal Shaposhnikov
Yank Airmen in Biggest Daylight Raid
In the largest daylight operation from England, U S Army Air Forces pounded the Meaulie Nazi factory and a St Omer airfield in northern France. They claimed 13 German fighters down while 400 American and Allied aircraft destroyed five Focke Wulf 190s. Six Allied fighters were lost and all fortress planes returned. Mosquito bombers also struck targets in Belgium as secret operations continued.
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U. S. Army
England
Meaulie
St. Omer
France
Germany
Boston
le Havre
Britain
Oslo
Helgium
Box Score Of U S War Planes Show Superiority Over Axis
A House subcommittee report presents a box score of American fighter and bomber losses and enemy destruction from August 14 to September 14, showing a 7.6 to 1 advantage for U S combat aircraft. It cites P-39 and P-40 kills and notes total losses and August figures. It compares performance of the Japanese Zero and the American P-40, highlighting pilots favoring the P-40 for its fighting traits.
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Special House Subcommittee
United States
U. S
Definite Assurance on Food Supply From War Board Chair
Donald Nelson of the War Production Board told the House Agriculture Committee there will be enough food to eat for the duration despite a looming coffee shortage and plans for meat rationing. He acknowledged farm labor shortages but expressed confidence in meeting demand. A large loan program for small farmers was being considered to fund tools, machinery, and livestock to boost production with limited labor.
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Donald Nelson
Chailrman
War Production Board
House Agriculture Committee
Nelson
Hoarding Gas? I's Plenty Dangerous
National Safety Council condemns hoarding gasoline as unpatriotic and dangerous. Storing gas risks vapor leaks and explosions that can wreck homes and cause injuries. The warning: hoarders may gain a ride but end up in the hospital. the safe rule is not to hoard gasoline.
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National Safety Council
Safety Bureau
Used Tires Frozen by Price Administrator Order
Leon Henderson froze all used tires and tubes held by current owners to support rubber conservation during rationing. The OPA order bans transfers by dealers and consumers, but allows sale of a car with used tires to a consumer and moving mounted tires within in stock cars. It lets owners repair casings and recap tires if eligible.
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Leon Hensderson
OPA
Leon Henderson
Washington
Sean
Edouard Herriot Arrested Over Vichy Policy Clash
Edouard Herriot, 70, former president of the defunct French chamber, is reported held at his chateau near Lyons on charges tied to challenging Vichy collaboration with the Axis. He resigned from the Legion of Honor, denouncing collaboration, and may have opposed Laval’s regime while warning against renewed war with Allied powers.
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Edouard Herriot
Chamber of
Geputies
Vichy
Axis
Third Republe
Lyons
Herriot
Jules Jeannenney
Senate
France
Pierre Laval
Farm parity alarm rattles Roosevelt advisers
Roosevelt aides warn farm parity rights loom as a grim second worry if Republicans gain ground in November. The White House fears a sharply trimmed Democratic majority in the House, disrupting plans and signaling two years of likely legislative battles over farm stabilization and price controls.
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Roosevelt
White House
House of Representatives
Ed Flynn
Middle West
California
House
Congress
Brusque
Leon Henderson
Sam Rayburn
Rayburn
Price
Meat Rationing Plan Nears Rollout in War Time
A government order announces a 20 percent reduction in civilian meat supplies by directing meat packers on quantities to distribute to non military distributors. This marks the first concrete step toward the anticipated 24 percent weekly per person limit previously discussed by U S citizens.
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U. S
New York Picture Postcard Mix of City Scenes and Gossip
A collage of Midtown life and street edge, listing shops, figures, and moments from Broadway to 54th Street. Notes the Taft Hotel window watcher, Toscanini, the Queen of 47th Street, and the bustling Wall Street facade. Mentions the Dempsey window, the Roxy crowd, and a nurse case tied to a Haight murder in a broad, gossiping snapshot.
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New York
Sth Avenue
Toscanini
57Th Street
Broadway
Taft Hotel
Winter Garden
47Th Street
Music Hall
Wall Street
Sixth Avenue
Dempsey's
Memos of the Congressional Limited in Wartime Washington
A vivid slice of 1940s Washington scenes. Randolph Paul and FDR tax policy thoughts, slow city speeds at 22 mph, $25 fines for 35 mph suburbia, WAACs in winter dress, Navy Dept visitors, a deco pocketed commander, autumn grass thinning in ballparks, Bowery misery, a junk wagon logo Get in the Scrap, Marines on River Side Drive, Waldorf doorman austerity, and a reader flipping Vogue on Madison.
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Randolph Paul
FDR
Mayflower
Waacs
Washington
Navy
Riverside Drive
Waldorf
Vogue
4Th and
Madison
Hundred Percent War Work By Robert St. John
The author recounts volunteering in a British munitions factory during wartime, inspecting tiny parts critical to fighter aircraft and joining the ranks of workers who toil long hours without publicity. He reflects on total war, calls for maximum public sacrifice, and praises Britain’s ordinary workers while noting past injustices and grit of the working class.
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Robert St. John
Collier's Weekly
London
Chicago
Philippines
Europe
Romania
Gestapo
Balkans
Poland
America
Britain
Messerschmitt
Greece
Ministry of Labor
England
Secon
Modern chair slip cover from homemaking booklet
An up to date frock for dining chairs describes a medium blue cotton rep cover with darker bias binding and fringe. The design uses large button moulds covered with the cover material for back openings and suggests snaps as an alternative to bound buttonholes. It notes corner ties inside to keep the cover in place and mentions availability in Book BS with further chair transformation guides in Book 7.
Liberty and Union Theme Shared by Webster Quote
A quotation from Daniel Webster extols Liberty and Union as inseparable, praising their enduring presence across sea and land and under every sky. The passage emphasizes the universal American affection for liberty and union as a single enduring ideal.
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Daniel Webster
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