co agrees to NWLB directive on union membership-maintenance clause; action marks 2d U S Steel Corp open-shop policy break; texts of L H Korndorff, co pres, and W H Davis, NWLB chmn, lrs and statements

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DRAFT 'SCREEN TEST' ASSAILED STRONGLY; Officials and Army Officers Denounce Cursory Tests Before Induction DRAFT SCREEN TEST ASSAILED WIDELY

By Meyer Berger

Wash urged to end system of cursory physical tests by local bds; large percentage of inductees rejected by army drs and other evils of system cited

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1942John Ashcroft, American lawyer and politician, 79th United States Attorney General^[†]

John David Ashcroft is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and former politician who served as the 79th United States attorney general under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005. A Republican from Missouri, Ashcroft represented the state in the United States Senate from 1995 to 2001, and held statewide office as the 29th auditor (1973–1975), 38th attorney general (1976–1985), and 50th governor of Missouri (1985–1993). He later founded The Ashcroft Group, a Washington D.C. lobbying firm.

1942David Gergen, American political consultant (died 2025)^[†]

David Richmond Gergen was an American political commentator and longtime presidential adviser who served during the administrations of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. He was later a senior political analyst for CNN and a professor of public service and the founding director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. Gergen was also the former editor at large of U.S. News & World Report and a contributor to CNN and Parade Magazine. He was twice a member of election coverage teams that won Peabody awards: in 1988 with MacNeil–Lehrer, and in 2008 with CNN.

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1942Józef Cebula, Polish priest and saint (born 1902)^[†]

Józef Cebula was a Polish priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI).

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1942The Holocaust in Ukraine: The SS executes 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast. The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants executed or deported.^[†]

The Holocaust saw the systematic mass murder of Jews in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine, the General Government, the Crimean General Government and some areas which were located to the east of Reichskommissariat Ukraine, in the Transnistria Governorate and Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and the Hertsa region and Carpathian Ruthenia during World War II. The listed areas are currently parts of Ukraine.

Headlines from May 9, 1942

British Optimistic; UNITED NATIONS BOLSTER THEIR POSITION IN INDIAN OCEAN CEYLON REINFORCED WITH MADAGASCAR

AIR WAR ON REICH CALLED A 'PRELUDE'; Sinclair and Eden in Britain Say R.A.F. Is Paving Way for Invasion of Europe AIR WAR ON REICH CALLED A 'PRELUDE'

Bulkeley Sure We 'Can Lick Them' If Odds Are but 5 to 1 Against Us; JOAN LATER SURRENDERED BULKELEY IS SURE WE 'CAN LICK THEM'

SHIPYARD BOWS TO EDICT ON UNION; 'Maintenance of Membership' Accepted Despite Objection to Policy of NWLB SHIPYARD BOWS TO EDICT ON UNION

DRAFT 'SCREEN TEST' ASSAILED STRONGLY; Officials and Army Officers Denounce Cursory Tests Before Induction DRAFT SCREEN TEST ASSAILED WIDELY

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