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November 20, 1942

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$9,000,000,000 GOAL OF NEW WAR LOAN; TREASURY RECORD; December Total Will Eclipse $6,900,000,000 of the 4th Liberty in 1918 FOR BIG SALES CAMPAIGN Great Armies of Solicitors Will Try to Get Private Investors and Workers to Buy RECORD 9 BILLIONS GOAL OF TREASURY

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- Borrowing in December of the unprecedented amount of $9,000,000,000 by means of an intensive sales campaign which will place with every class and type of investor Treasury issues specifically designed for them was announced today by Henry Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of the Treasury.

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Joe Biden

1942Joe Biden, American politician, 46th President of the United States[†]

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is an American politician who served as the 46th president of the United States from 2021 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009 and also served as the 47th vice president under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017.

Bob Einstein

1942Bob Einstein, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2019)[†]

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Norman Greenbaum

1942Norman Greenbaum, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]

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Meredith Monk

1942Meredith Monk, American composer and choreographer[†]

Meredith Jane Monk is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. From the 1960s onwards, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre, and dance, recording extensively for ECM Records. In 1991, Monk composed Atlas, an opera, commissioned and produced by the Houston Opera and the American Music Theater Festival. Her music has been used in films by the Coen Brothers and Jean-Luc Godard. Trip hop musician DJ Shadow sampled Monk's "Dolmen Music" on the song "Midnight in a Perfect World". In 2015, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Barack Obama.

1942Paulos Faraj Rahho, Chaldean Catholic Archeparch of Mosul (died 2008)[†]

Paulos Faraj Rahho was a Chaldean Catholic prelate who served as the Archeparch of Mosul in the northern part of Iraq from 2001 until his death in 2008 at the hands of terrorists.