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empowers E R Stettinius Jr to sign allocations not individually exceeding $300,000,000
last contracts let for 2-ocean navy; survey of ships ordered and bldg; bldg progress tabulation, yr ended June
Iran Shah ousted; Crown Prince Mohammed Riza Pahlevi succeeds him; move seen as Allied move for anti-Axis govt formation; illus
LaGuardia defeats Davies for Repub nomination by 18,000 majority; loses in Queens and Bronx; vote light; LaGuardia unopposed for Amer Labor party nomination and O'Dwyer for Dem nomination; Chadbourne hails results; tabulation by bors
1941Bob Matsui, American lawyer and politician (died 2005)[†]
Robert Takeo Matsui was an American politician from the state of California. Matsui was a member of the Democratic Party and served in the U.S. House of Representatives as the congressman for California's 5th congressional district from 1979 until his death at the end of his 13th term.
1941World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense restores compulsory military training.[†]
Vsevobuch, a portmanteau for "Universal Military Training", was a system of compulsory military training for men practiced in the Russian SFSR governed by the Chief Administration of Universal Military Training of the People's Commissariat of Military Affairs.
1941World War II: Soviet forces enter Tehran during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran.[†]
The Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, also known as the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia, was the joint invasion of the neutral Imperial State of Iran by the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union in August 1941. The two powers announced that they would stay until six months after the end of the war with their mutual enemy, Nazi Germany, which turned out to be 2 March 1946. On that date the British began to withdraw, while the Soviet Union delayed until May, initially citing "threats to Soviet security", followed by the Iran crisis of 1946.