| 1950-12-29 | Celler-Kefauver Act Closes Merger Loopholes, Strengthens Government Power to Block Anticompetitive Consolidation U.S. Congress · Representative Emanuel Celler · Senator Estes Kefauver · +2 | 5 |
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| 1950-12-16 | Truman Proclaims National Emergency for Korean War: Declaration Remains Legally Operative for 26 Years Harry S. Truman · Dean Acheson · George Marshall | 3 |
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| 1950-09-23 | McCarran Internal Security Act Passes Over Truman Veto, Codifies Red-Scare Surveillance Apparatus Patrick McCarran · Harry S. Truman · Subversive Activities Control Board · +2 | 5 |
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| 1950-09-23 | McCarran Internal Security Act Passes Over Truman Veto, Requires Communist Registration Pat McCarran · Karl Mundt · Harry Truman · +6 | 9 |
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| 1950-09-08 | Defense Production Act Institutionalizes Korean War Industrial Mobilization, Defense Budget Quadruples to $50 Billion Harry Truman · Office of Defense Mobilization · Boeing · +3 | 6 |
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| 1950-09-01 | State Loyalty Oaths Spread as California Passes Levering Act, Requires Public Employee Pledges California Legislature · Earl Warren · University of California Board of Regents · +1 | 4 |
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| 1950-08-23 | CIA Secretly Purchases Civil Air Transport, Creating Template for Intelligence Front Companies Central Intelligence Agency · Claire Chennault · Whiting Willauer · +2 | 5 |
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| 1950-08-01 | State Department Revokes Paul Robeson Passport for Political Views and Soviet Support Paul Robeson · State Department · J. Edgar Hoover · +1 | 4 | |
| 1950-06-27 | Truman Commits U.S. Forces to Korean War by Executive Action Alone, Establishing 'Police Action' Precedent Harry S. Truman · Dean Acheson · Robert Taft · +2 | 5 |
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| 1950-06-26 | Congress for Cultural Freedom Founded with CIA Money: Intellectual Capture Across 35 Countries CIA · Frank Wisner · Michael Josselson · +3 | 6 |
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| 1950-06-22 | Red Channels Published, Launching Broadcasting Blacklist and Corporate "Smear and Clear" Racket American Business Consultants · John G. Keenan · Kenneth M. Bierly · +7 | 10 |
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| 1950-06-01 | Margaret Chase Smith Delivers Declaration of Conscience Against McCarthy Witch Hunt Margaret Chase Smith · Joseph McCarthy · Wayne Morse · +5 | 8 | |
| 1950-05-23 | Treaty of Detroit - GM-UAW Contract Establishes Labor Containment Model General Motors · United Auto Workers · Walter Reuther · +1 | 4 |
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| 1950-04-07 | NSC-68 Directive Creates Permanent Military-Industrial Establishment - Defense Spending to Triple Harry S. Truman · Paul Nitze · Dean Acheson · +2 | 5 | |
| 1950-02-09 | McCarthy Wheeling Speech Claims 205 Communists in State Department Launching Witch Hunt Joseph McCarthy · Harry S. Truman | 2 | |
| 1950-01-01 | Corporate Anti-Communist Network Coordinates Labor Suppression Through NAM, Chamber of Commerce Infrastructure National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · American Legion · +3 | 6 | |
| 1949-12-08 | China Lobby Intensifies Campaign After Nationalist Retreat to Taiwan - Alfred Kohlberg Funds Propaganda Alfred Kohlberg · Chiang Kai-shek · T.V. Soong · +3 | 6 | |
| 1949-11-15 | CIO Expels United Electrical Workers and Farm Equipment Workers, Beginning Purge of Communist-Led Unions Congress of Industrial Organizations · Philip Murray · Walter Reuther · +3 | 6 | |
| 1949-08-10 | Louis Johnson Exonerated in B-36 Scandal Despite Convair Board Service and Contract Awards Louis Johnson · Convair Corporation · House Armed Services Committee · +3 | 6 |
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| 1949-07-15 | Housing Act of 1949 Creates Urban Renewal Program, Becomes "Negro Removal" U.S. Congress · President Harry Truman · Local Redevelopment Agencies | 3 | |
| 1949-06-01 | FCC Establishes Fairness Doctrine Requiring Broadcasters to Present Balanced Coverage of Controversial Issues Federal Communications Commission · U.S. Congress | 2 | |
| 1949-05-20 | Armed Forces Security Agency Created, Failed Precursor That Drove NSA Consolidation Louis Johnson · Joint Chiefs of Staff · Armed Forces Security Agency · +1 | 4 |
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| 1949-04-04 | NATO Established - 12 Nations Form Collective Defense Pact, $1.4 Billion Defense Buildup Begins Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress · North Atlantic Treaty Organization · +1 | 4 | |
| 1948-08-03 | Alger Hiss Testifies Before HUAC as Whittaker Chambers Accuses Him of Espionage Alger Hiss · Whittaker Chambers · Richard Nixon · +1 | 4 | |
| 1948-07-26 | Executive Order 9981 Desegregates U.S. Military - Truman Repudiates 170 Years of Discrimination Harry S. Truman · Isaac Woodard · President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity · +2 | 5 | |
| 1948-07-17 | Dixiecrat Revolt - Strom Thurmond Leads Segregationist Walkout After Democratic Civil Rights Platform Strom Thurmond · Fielding L. Wright · States Rights Democratic Party · +3 | 6 | |
| 1948-06-17 | Robert Moses Begins Cross-Bronx Expressway: Deliberate Destruction of Stable Communities to Build Car Infrastructure Robert Moses · New York City | 2 |
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| 1948-05-03 | Supreme Court Rules Racially Restrictive Housing Covenants Unenforceable U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice Fred Vinson · NAACP Legal Defense Fund | 3 | |
| 1948-04-03 | Marshall Plan Begins - $13 Billion Aid Program Benefits American Exporters and Defense Industry George Marshall · Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress · +1 | 4 | |
| 1948-01-27 | Smith-Mundt Act Authorizes State Department Propaganda Apparatus - Voice of America Expands Harry S. Truman · Karl E. Mundt · U.S. Congress · +2 | 5 |
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| 1947-12-19 | NSC 4-A Secretly Authorizes CIA Covert Action Using "Fifth Function" Elastic Clause of 1947 Act Harry S. Truman · National Security Council · Central Intelligence Agency · +2 | 5 | |
| 1947-11-25 | Waldorf Statement Launches Hollywood Blacklist, Studio Executives Pledge to Fire Hollywood Ten Motion Picture Association of America · Eric Johnston · Louis B. Mayer · +18 | 21 |
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| 1947-10-20 | HUAC Hollywood Hearings Begin, Studio Executives Cooperate as "Friendly Witnesses" House Un-American Activities Committee · J. Parnell Thomas · Robert E. Stripling · +10 | 13 |
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| 1947-10-01 | Federal Loyalty Program Implementation Creates Permanent Political Background-Check Regime Harry S. Truman · Seth Richardson · Civil Service Commission · +2 | 5 |
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| 1947-10-01 | Levittown Opens as America's First Suburb With Explicit Whites-Only Policy William Levitt · Levitt & Sons · Federal Housing Administration · +1 | 4 | |
| 1947-09-18 | Central Intelligence Agency Begins Operations Under 1947 National Security Act Harry S. Truman · Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter · Central Intelligence Agency · +2 | 5 | |
| 1947-09-18 | James Forrestal Becomes First Defense Secretary, Fusing Wall Street Financial Power with Pentagon James Forrestal · Harry Truman · U.S. Department of Defense · +1 | 4 |
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| 1947-07-26 | National Security Act Establishes Permanent Warfare State and Military-Industrial Framework Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress · U.S. Department of Defense · +2 | 5 |
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| 1947-07-26 | National Security Act: Structural Transfer of Military-Intelligence Policy From Congressional to Executive Control Harry S. Truman · James Forrestal · Clark Clifford · +2 | 5 |
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| 1947-06-23 | Anti-Communist Loyalty Oaths and Taft-Hartley Act Weaponized to Crush Labor Movement Robert A. Taft · Fred A. Hartley · CIO · +2 | 5 | |
| 1947-06-23 | Taft-Hartley Act Severely Restricts Union Power, Enables State Right-to-Work Laws Robert Taft · Fred Hartley · Republican Party · +3 | 6 |
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| 1947-04-10 | Mont Pelerin Society Founded with Volker Fund Support, Launching International Free-Market Network Friedrich Hayek · Milton Friedman · Ludwig von Mises · +5 | 8 | |
| 1947-03-21 | Executive Order 9835 Establishes Federal Loyalty Program - 5 Million Screened, Guilt Presumed Harry S. Truman · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Civil Service Commission · +1 | 4 |
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| 1947-03-12 | Truman Doctrine Announces $400 Million Military Aid Package - Cold War Containment Policy Begins Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress · George F. Kennan · +1 | 4 | |
| 1947-01-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Drafts Taft-Hartley Act "Sentence by Sentence, Paragraph by Paragraph" National Association of Manufacturers · Robert Taft · Fred Hartley · +4 | 7 |
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| 1946-11-09 | Price Controls End After Corporate Decontrol Campaign, Inflation Spikes Office of Price Administration · Harry Truman · National Association of Manufacturers · +3 | 6 |
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| 1946-08-01 | Atomic Energy Act Creates AEC, Establishes Unprecedented Peacetime Secrecy Regime U.S. Congress · Harry Truman · Brien McMahon · +4 | 7 |
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| 1946-06-11 | Administrative Procedure Act Codifies Regulatory Process, Creates Industry Capture Opportunities U.S. Congress · Harry Truman · American Bar Association · +2 | 5 | |
| 1946-05-01 | Operation Dixie Launched to Unionize the South, Met with Violent Corporate Resistance Congress of Industrial Organizations · Van Bittner · George Baldanzi · +6 | 9 |
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| 1946-03-05 | US-UK Sign Secret BRUSA/UKUSA Signals Intelligence Agreement, Foundation of Five Eyes Hoyt Vandenberg · Patrick Marr-Johnson · State-Army-Navy Communication Intelligence Board · +2 | 5 |
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| 1946-02-20 | Employment Act of 1946 Gutted, Full Employment Guarantee Abandoned U.S. Congress · Harry Truman · National Association of Manufacturers · +3 | 6 |
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| 1946-01-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Launches Massive Anti-Union Propaganda Campaign After Strike Wave National Association of Manufacturers · National Industrial Information Council · General Motors · +5 | 8 |
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| 1945-11-21 | Largest Strike Wave in U.S. History Begins as 5 Million Workers Walk Out United Auto Workers · United Mine Workers · United Steelworkers · +3 | 6 | |
| 1945-11-19 | Truman Proposes National Health Insurance, AMA Mobilizes Unprecedented Opposition Campaign Harry S. Truman · American Medical Association · Morris Fishbein · +2 | 5 |
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| 1945-09-20 | Truman Signs Executive Order 9621 Dissolving OSS: Wall Street Intelligence Elite Returns to Private Sector Harry Truman · William Donovan · Allen Dulles · +1 | 4 |
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| 1945-09-06 | Truman 21-Point Program Defeated, Corporate Backlash Against New Deal Begins Harry Truman · U.S. Congress · National Association of Manufacturers · +3 | 6 |
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| 1945-09-03 | Operation Paperclip Secretly Recruits Nazi Scientists, Whitewashes War Crimes Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency · U.S. War Department · Wernher von Braun · +3 | 6 |
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| 1945-09-01 | Project SHAMROCK Begins, NSA Obtains Copies of All International Cables for 30 Years Armed Forces Security Agency · National Security Agency · Western Union · +3 | 6 |
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| 1945-08-15 | WWII Defense Contractors Convert to Peacetime Economy While Maintaining Pentagon Subsidies and Infrastructure Boeing · Lockheed · General Dynamics · +2 | 5 | |
| 1945-01-03 | HUAC Made Permanent Standing Committee, Institutionalizes Political Persecution U.S. House of Representatives · John Rankin · Martin Dies · +1 | 4 |
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| 1944-12-18 | Korematsu v. United States - Supreme Court Upholds Japanese Internment U.S. Supreme Court · Fred Korematsu · Hugo Black · +4 | 7 |
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| 1944-11-07 | Arkansas and Florida Become First States to Pass Right-to-Work Laws Through Racist, Anti-Semitic Campaign Vance Muse · Christian American Association · Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation · +3 | 6 |
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| 1944-07-21 | Democratic Convention Ousts Henry Wallace, Party Bosses Install Truman Henry Wallace · Harry Truman · Franklin D. Roosevelt · +4 | 7 | |
| 1944-07-17 | Port Chicago Disaster and Black Sailors Mutiny Conviction U.S. Navy · Thurgood Marshall · NAACP · +2 | 5 |
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| 1944-07-01 | Bretton Woods Conference Establishes Dollar Hegemony Through IMF and World Bank U.S. Treasury · Harry Dexter White · John Maynard Keynes · +2 | 5 | |
| 1944-06-22 | GI Bill Passed with Discriminatory State Implementation Enabling Racial Wealth Gap Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · John Rankin · +2 | 5 | |
| 1944-04-03 | Smith v. Allwright: Supreme Court Strikes Down White Primaries, Opening Democratic Party to Black Voters U.S. Supreme Court · Stanley Reed · Thurgood Marshall · +3 | 6 |
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| 1943-07-01 | Curtiss-Wright Exposed for Supplying Defective Aircraft Engines to Military Curtiss-Wright Corporation · Truman Committee · Harry S. Truman · +1 | 4 | |
| 1943-06-25 | Smith-Connally Act Criminalizes Union Political Contributions, Spawns First PACs Howard W. Smith · Tom Connally · Franklin D. Roosevelt · +3 | 6 |
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| 1943-06-20 | Detroit Race Riot Exposes Housing Segregation and War Production Tensions Detroit Police Department · Federal troops · Detroit housing authority · +2 | 5 | |
| 1943-04-08 | Hold the Line Order Freezes Wages While Corporate Profits Soar Franklin D. Roosevelt · National War Labor Board · Office of Price Administration · +3 | 6 | |
| 1943-02-01 | Army Signal Intelligence Service Begins VENONA Soviet Cable Decryption, Foundation for Post-War Counterintelligence Gene Grabeel · Meredith Gardner · Army Signal Intelligence Service · +3 | 6 | |
| 1943-01-01 | American Enterprise Association Moves to Washington to Oppose New Deal, Precursor to AEI Think Tank American Enterprise Association · Lewis H. Brown · Johns-Manville Corporation · +7 | 10 |
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| 1942-12-21 | Anaconda Wire and Cable Indicted for $6 Million Fraud Selling Defective Equipment Anaconda Wire and Cable Company · Department of Justice · Truman Committee · +1 | 4 | |
| 1942-10-20 | Alien Property Custodian Seizes Bush-Thyssen Nazi Banking Assets Office of Alien Property Custodian · Prescott Bush · Union Banking Corporation · +3 | 6 |
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| 1942-09-01 | Committee for Economic Development Founded as Business-Government Policy Coordination Body Committee for Economic Development · Paul G. Hoffman · William Benton · +3 | 6 | |
| 1942-08-04 | Bracero Program Begins 22-Year Guest Worker Exploitation System U.S. Department of Labor · Mexican Government · Agricultural employers · +1 | 4 | |
| 1942-07-02 | FDR Proclamation 2561 Creates Military Tribunal for Nazi Saboteurs; Ex parte Quirin Becomes Cited Precedent for Post-9/11 Detention Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Supreme Court · Harlan F. Stone · +3 | 6 |
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| 1942-06-13 | Office of Strategic Services Created, Wall Street Lawyers Build Intelligence Apparatus William Donovan · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Allen Dulles · +3 | 6 | |
| 1942-04-28 | Renegotiation Act Enables Limited War Profit Recovery After Corporate Resistance U.S. Congress · U.S. War Department · Navy Department · +2 | 5 |
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| 1942-03-26 | Standard Oil-IG Farben Cartel Exposed, Senator Truman Calls It Treason Standard Oil of New Jersey · IG Farben · Harry Truman · +3 | 6 |
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| 1942-02-19 | Executive Order 9066 as Executive-Power Template: FDR's Internment Authority Predicate for 2001 Detention Architecture Franklin D. Roosevelt · Henry Stimson · John McCloy · +2 | 5 |
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| 1942-02-19 | Executive Order 9066 Authorizes Japanese American Internment Franklin D. Roosevelt · War Relocation Authority · U.S. Army Western Defense Command · +3 | 6 |
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| 1942-01-16 | War Production Board Establishes Corporate-Government Fusion Model Franklin D. Roosevelt · Donald Nelson · War Production Board · +2 | 5 | |
| 1942-01-12 | National War Labor Board Established, No-Strike Pledge Constrains Unions Franklin D. Roosevelt · National War Labor Board · AFL · +3 | 6 | |
| 1942-01-01 | Bracero Program Wage Theft - Wells Fargo Transfers $32 Million That Disappears in Mexico Wells Fargo Bank · Bank of Mexico · Banco de Credito Agricola · +2 | 5 | |
| 1941-12-07 | FBI Pre-Pearl-Harbor Japanese-American Dossier System Provides Internment Target Lists J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Office of Naval Intelligence · +3 | 6 |
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| 1941-05-06 | FCC Establishes Television Ownership Limit of Three Stations to Prevent Media Monopoly Concentration Federal Communications Commission | 1 | |
| 1941-04-17 | Ford Willow Run Bomber Plant Built with Taxpayer Funds, Private Profits Ford Motor Company · Henry Ford · Charles Sorensen · +2 | 5 |
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| 1941-03-01 | Truman Committee Established to Investigate War Profiteering Harry S. Truman · U.S. Senate · Defense contractors | 3 | |
| 1940-10-08 | Excess Profits Tax Passed with Corporate Lobbying Loopholes U.S. Congress · Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Treasury Department · +2 | 5 |
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| 1940-06-28 | Smith Act Criminalizes Advocacy of Government Overthrow, Enables Political Persecution Howard W. Smith · U.S. Congress · Department of Justice · +1 | 4 | |
| 1940-01-01 | WWII Corporate Profits Soar 113% as Cost-Plus Contracts Enable Massive War Profiteering U.S. corporations · General Motors · Steel industry · +2 | 5 | |
| 1939-11-04 | Neutrality Act Revised to Allow Arms Sales on Cash-and-Carry Basis, Enabling Corporate War Profits Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · arms manufacturers · +3 | 6 | |
| 1939-09-06 | Roosevelt Proclamation Consolidates All Domestic Intelligence Under FBI, Creating Peacetime Intelligence Monopoly Franklin D. Roosevelt · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +2 | 5 | |
| 1939-08-02 | Hatch Act Restricts Federal Workers' Political Activity After Allegations of WPA Election Interference Carl Hatch · Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · +2 | 5 | |
| 1939-04-03 | Reorganization Act of 1939: FDR Creates Executive Office of the President, Permanent Staff Infrastructure of Modern Presidency Franklin D. Roosevelt · Louis Brownlow · Charles Merriam · +2 | 5 |
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| 1939-02-27 | Supreme Court Rules in NLRB v. Fansteel That Sit-Down Strikers Can Be Lawfully Fired Despite Employer Violations Supreme Court of the United States · National Labor Relations Board · Fansteel Metallurgical Corporation · +2 | 5 |
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| 1938-07-30 | Henry Ford Receives Nazi Grand Cross of the German Eagle on 75th Birthday, Hitler's Highest Honor for Foreigners Henry Ford · Adolf Hitler · Ford Motor Company · +1 | 4 | |
| 1938-06-25 | Fair Labor Standards Act Passes Over Fierce Business and Southern Opposition to Minimum Wage and Child Labor Ban Franklin D. Roosevelt · Frances Perkins · Hugo Black · +3 | 6 | |