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...resolution adopted by a 2-1 majority reads as follows: that the United States, as a leader among the nations united and fighting for democracy, must accept full partnership in peril; and that, pursuant to this resolve, the United States should at once lower the draft age to 18 years as a measure necessary to winning...
...Proclamation of the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, dated January 19, 1942, issued pursuant to proclamation of the President of the United States, dated January 5, 1942, the third registration under the Selective Service Act will be held in Massachusetts on Sunday, February 15, 1942, and Monday, February 16, 1942, between the hours mentioned above...
...Proclamation of the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, dated January 19, 1942, issued pursuant to Proclamation of the President of the United States, dated January 5, 1942, the third registration under the Selective Service Act will be held in Massachusetts on Sunday, February 15, 1942, and Monday, February 16, 1942, between the hours mentioned above...
Finally the President made good his threat, proclaimed: "Whereas . . . aircraft essential to its [the U.S.'s] armed forces and to the national defense is seriously impaired ... I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, pursuant to the powers vested in me . . . direct that the Secretary of War immediately take possession." This week, on the morning set for reopening, as tear-gas bombs began to lob through jampacked streets around the plants and violence began to spurt, soldiers with fixed bayonets marched into Inglewood...
...days later despite the fact that there was no "general interest demanding" such a gathering, at the meeting held pursuant to the call of the committee, the Harvard Club of New York City was brought into precarious existence...