Last week U. S. eyes were focused on headlines about battered London, headlines about U. S. conscription, headlines about the U. S. Presidential campaign. Franklin Roosevelt, as usual, made headlines too—some as President, some as candidate. As candidate he made a fighting speech before a Labor audience (see below). As President, he received from Congress the capstones of his defense program : 1) conscription of man power, along with unprecedented peacetime powers to draft industry as well; 2) a $5,000,000,000 supplemental Defense Bill, to equip the new Army and launch a...
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