1942
13 verified events recorded in 1942.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 · Francis Biddle | confirmed | |
| 1942-10-20 | Alien Property Custodian Seizes Bush-Thyssen Nazi Banking Assets Office of Alien Property Custodian · Prescott Bush · Union Banking Corporation · Fritz Thyssen · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1942-09-01 | Committee for Economic Development Founded as Business-Government Policy Coordination Body Committee for Economic Development · Paul G. Hoffman · William Benton · Marion B. Folsom · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1942-08-04 | Bracero Program Begins 22-Year Guest Worker Exploitation System U.S. Department of Labor · Mexican Government · Agricultural employers · Railroad companies | confirmed | |
| 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 · Francis Biddle · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1942-06-13 | Office of Strategic Services Created, Wall Street Lawyers Build Intelligence Apparatus William Donovan · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Allen Dulles · Office of Strategic Services · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1942-04-28 | Renegotiation Act Enables Limited War Profit Recovery After Corporate Resistance U.S. Congress · U.S. War Department · Navy Department · Defense contractors · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1942-03-26 | Standard Oil-IG Farben Cartel Exposed, Senator Truman Calls It Treason Standard Oil of New Jersey · IG Farben · Harry Truman · Thurman Arnold · +2 | confirmed | |
| 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 · Francis Biddle · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1942-02-19 | Executive Order 9066 Authorizes Japanese American Internment Franklin D. Roosevelt · War Relocation Authority · U.S. Army Western Defense Command · John L. DeWitt · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1942-01-16 | War Production Board Establishes Corporate-Government Fusion Model Franklin D. Roosevelt · Donald Nelson · War Production Board · Defense contractors · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1942-01-12 | National War Labor Board Established, No-Strike Pledge Constrains Unions Franklin D. Roosevelt · National War Labor Board · AFL · CIO · +2 | confirmed | |
| 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 · Mexican Government · +1 | confirmed |