Word: extended
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks before Pearl Harbor, John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers ended a six-day strike. Its aim: to extend the union shop to the captive mines owned by the big steel companies. But the dispute lingered on until John L. got a settlement to suit him. The date...
...Congress considered the bill to extend the draft for another year, Allied victories kept piling up. So did pressure in Congress to keep 18-year-olds from being sent into combat without a Congress-prescribed period of training...
...domestic side the President: ¶ Told Congress he was wholeheartedly for Roosevelt-sponsored legislation to continue the Price Control and Stabilization Act and to extend Selective Service without amendments restricting the use of 18-year-olds in combat unless they have had prescribed periods of training. ¶Made his first major appointment-close friend John Wesley Snyder, St. Louis banker and former RFC official, to be Federal Loan Administrator (see THE ADMINISTRATION...
...would "extend credit only to those people who have demonstrated that they deserve it." Then he went to work...
There were a lot of things to sign-several State Department nominations, some postmasters' appointments, some citations for the Legion of Merit, the bill to extend the life of the Commodity Credit Corp. When he got to the bill, Franklin Roosevelt grinned at Bill Hassett, spoke the words that always made his secretary smile back: ".Here's where I make...