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Byrd joint Cong com urges abolition of Fed Farm Tenant Program and cuts in other agr relief appropriations for 1942-43 fiscal yr, rept to Roosevelt and Cong; Morgenthal, in lr to com, urges further cuts
U S State Dept condemns occupation
CAIRO, Egypt, Dec. 25 -- Just thirty-six days after the start of Britain's offensive in Libya, Royal Dragoons, followed by other British troops, drove into Bengazi yesterday.
16-day defense revd
1941Daniel Schmid, Swiss actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2006)[†]
Daniel Walter Schmid was a Swiss theatre and film director.
1941U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.[†]
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving U.S. president, and the only one to have served more than two terms. His first two terms were centered on combating the Great Depression, while his third and fourth saw him shift his focus to America's involvement in World War II.
1941British Prime Minister Winston Churchill addresses a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress.[†]
Winston Churchill's first address to the U.S. Congress was a 30-minute World War II-era radio-broadcast speech made in the chamber of the United States Senate on December 26, 1941. The prime minister of the United Kingdom addressed a joint meeting of the bicameral legislature of the United States about the state of the UK–U.S. alliance and their prospects for defeating the Axis Powers.