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December 18, 1944

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SENATORS PROPOSE A NEW JOB BUDGET FOR 60,000,000 MEN; It Would Require President to Tell Congress the Prospects of Maintaining This Level AND ESTIMATE FUND NEEDS Plan, Put In to Stimulate Study, Would Have Private Industry Do All It Could by Itself SENATORS PROPOSE A NEW JOB BUDGE

By John H. Criderspecial To the New York Times

Sen Mil Affairs Subcom proposes new natl production and employment budget plan to assure full employment and encourage private investment; policy text

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Notable Births

Crispian Steele-Perkins

1944Crispian Steele-Perkins, English trumpet player and educator[†]

Crispian Guy Steele-Perkins is an internationally acclaimed English classical trumpeter who was educated at Copthorne Preparatory School, Marlborough College and the Guildhall School of Music.

Historical Events

XX Bomber Command

1944World War II: XX Bomber Command responds to the Japanese Operation Ichi-Go offensive by dropping five hundred tons of incendiary bombs on a supply base in Hankow, China.[†]

The XX Bomber Command was a United States Army Air Forces bomber formation. Its last assignment was with Twentieth Air Force, based on Okinawa. It was inactivated on 16 July 1945.

Supreme Court of the United States

1944The Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in Korematsu v. United States supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 which cleared the way for the incarceration of nearly all 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, born and raised in the United States.[†]

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on questions of U.S. constitutional or federal law. It also has original jurisdiction over a narrow range of cases, specifically "all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party." In 1803, the court asserted itself the power of judicial review, the ability to invalidate a statute for violating a provision of the Constitution via the landmark case Marbury v. Madison. It is also able to strike down presidential directives for violating either the Constitution or statutory law.