24
. Thomas R. Henry, “Civilian Gas Mask Bill Action Scheduled in Congress Tomorrow,”
Sunday Star
, December 14, 1941, A3.
25
.
Los Angeles Times
, “Report of Labor Exodus Denied,” December 14, 1941, 24.
26
. George Gallup, “Air Raid Sentiments Sounded in Gallup Poll,”
New York Times
, December 13, 1941, 4.
27
.
Washington Post
, “Do's and Don'ts for Handling Fire Bombs,” December 13, 1941, 8.
28
.
Atlanta Constitution
, “Skull Practice Held Here on Handling Incendiary Bombs,” December 14, 1941, 12A.
29
.
Sunday Star
, “The Volunteer Overlax of Army Here,” December 14, 1941, A4.
30
.
Los Angeles Times
, “Draft Objector Ready to Serve,” December 13, 1941, 1D.
31
.
Atlanta Constitution
, “Georgian Killed in Hawaii Attack,” December 13, 1941, 2A.
32
.
Birmingham News
, “Lauderdale Negro Killed In Naval Engagement,” December 14, 1941, 1.
33
.
Boston Sunday Globe
, “Military Honors for Lynn Private Killed in Hawaii,” December 14, 1941, 7.
34
.
Boston Sunday Globe
, “Schools Asked to Make Stretchers and First Aid Chests,” December 14, 1941, 7.
35
. Associated Press, “Blind Man Offers Self and Seeing-Eye Dog as Blackout Guides,”
The Sunday Star
, December 14, 1941, A3.
36
.
Birmingham News
, “Boy Scouts to Help,” December 14, 1941, 16.
37
.
Birmingham News
, “Class at Millport Will Call Off Tour, Buy Defense Bond.”
38
.
The Atlanta Constitution
, “War Writes New Corus to Song,” December 14, 1941, 1A.
39
.
The Atlanta Constitution
, “Auto Clubs Helping Defense,” December 14, 1941, 6B.
40
.
The Sunday Star
, “Gen. Wood Volunteers Services During War,” December 14, 1941, A5.
41
.
New York Times
, “America First Unit Quits,” December 13, 1941, 10.
42
.
Sunday Star
, “Gen. Wood Volunteers Services During War,” December 14, 1941, A4.
43
. Associated Press, “Provisions of Draft Bill,” December 13, 1941, 14.
44
.
Los Angeles Times
, “Worker Surplus Now Wiped Out,” December 13, 1941, 1 Part I.
45
. Associated Press, “Studies No Reason For Not Serving,”
Evening Star
, December 14, 1941, C1.
46
. Associated Press, “Army Officer Urges Rose Bowl Football Game Be Cancelled,”
Atlanta Constitution
, December 13, 1941, 1A.
47
. Walter McCallum, “Ban on Big-Time Competitive Golf by U.S.G.A. for Duration of War Expected,”
The Sunday Star
, December 14, 1941, C2.
48
.
Sunday Star
, “Riggs, Sarah Cooke Get Top Rankings In U.S. Tennis,” December 14, 1941, C2.
49
. Associated Press, “Frank Capra Quits Films to Join the Signal Corps,”
New York Times
, December 13, 1941, 24; Joseph McBride.
Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success
(New York: St. Martins Griffin, 2000), 448-460.
50
.
Los Angeles Times
, “Frank Capra Awaiting Summons from Army,” December 13, 1941, 2.
51
. Hedda Hopper, “What Will Public Say?”
Washington Post
, November 2, 1942, B6.
52
.
Los Angeles Times
, “Fox West Coast Theaters,” December 15, 1941, A15.
53
. Associated Press, “Defense Plant Where Explosion Killed Nine,”
New York Times
, December 13, 1941, 10.
54
.
Lost Angeles Times
, “Drowned Man's Body Found, Probable Victim of Blackout,” December 14, 1941, A2.
55
.
Christian Science Monitor
, “Oregon Sinking Described at Federal Probe,” December 12, 1941, 5.
56
.
New York Times
, “Canada to Ration Gasoline April 1,” December 12, 1941, 12.
57
. Henry E. Rose, “Public to Get Lower Quality Fuel, Means Higher Motorists' Bills,”
Wall Street Journal
, December 13, 1941, 1.
58
.
Wall Street Journal
, “Heavy Food Buying in Some Areas Forces Grocers to Impose Informal Curbs,” December 13, 1941, 2.
59
. Associated Press, “O.P.M. Act Bars Sugar Hoarding or Speculation,”
Boston Daily Globe
, December 13, 1941, C3.
60
.
San Francisco Chronicle
, “OPM Order: Deliveries of Sugar to Big Users Curbed,” December 14, 1941, 9.
61
. J.S. Armstrong, “Major Shift Seen In War Financing,”
Baltimore Sun
, December 13, 1941, 17.
62
. George Gallup, “Price, Wage Control Favored,”
Atlanta Constitution
, December 14, 1941, 2.
63
. Drew Pearson, “President's Bodyguard Strips Jap Newsmen of Their White House Passes; Living Costs Continue Upward Trend,”
Birmingham News
, December 14, 1941, 1.
64
.
San Francisco Chronicle
, “New York Wrecks Symbol of Goodwill,” December 14, 1941, 13.
65
.
Baltimore Sun
, “Baltimore Army Nurse âWell, Safe' in Hawaii,” December 13, 1941, 6.
66
.
Baltimore Sun
, “Baltimore Army Nurse âWell, Safe' in Hawaii,” December 13, 1941, 6.
67
.
Sunday Star
, “Six U.S. Flyers Cited by Army for âSpectacular Heroism' in Battle to Save Honolulu,” December 14, 1941, A1.
68
. Celestine Sibley, “54 Women Learning Meaning of Dot-Dash in Classes Here,”
Atlanta Constitution
, December 14, 1941, 4B.
69
.
San Francisco Chronicle
, “This World” Cover, Col. 5, No. 38, December 14, 1941.
70
. Richard H. Minear,
Dr. Seuss Goes to War
(New York: The New Press, 2001).
71
. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, “Report By The Secretary of the Navy to the President,” December 14, 1941, Hyde Park, NY.
72
. Glen Babb, “There Is No âOne Man' in Japan But Adml. Yamamoto New Hero,”
Birmingham News
, December 14, 1941, 8.
73
. United Press, “Rear Admiral Kimmel's Death, Reported by Japan, Doubted,”
Los Angeles Times
, December 14, 1941, 1.
74
. Clarke Beach, “America's Strategic Islands Are Keys to Victory in Pacific,”
Sunday Star
, December 14, 1941, B5.
75
. Owen L. Scott, “U.S. Facing Long Hard-Fought War,”
Boston Sunday Globe
, December 14, 1941, 7.
76
.
Sunday Star
, “Kann's Toyland” Advertisement, December 14, 1941, B6.
77
.
New York Times
, “Dance Lessons Cost No More at Arthur Murray's,” December 14, 1941, X4.
78
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Boston Sunday Globe
, “Gilchrist's” Advertisement, December 14, 1941, 7.
79
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New York Times,
“Saks-34th” Advertisement, December 14, 1941, 17.
80
.
Sunday Star
, “Best Sellers,” December 14, 1941, E7.
81
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Sunday Star
, “The President” Advertisement, December 14, 1941, D15.
82
. Jay Carmody, “Another Year, Another 10-Best List,”
Sunday Star
, December 14, 1941, E1.
83
. Carolyn Anspacher, “Neediest Families: You Can Help Keep the Home Fires Burning,”
San Francisco Chronicle
, December 14, 1941, 9.
84
. Blair Bolles, “Total War Between the Democracies and Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis Engulfs War,”
Sunday Star
, December 14, 1941, B3.
CHAPTER 15: THE FIFTEENTH OF DECEMBER
1
. W. E. Lucas, “Fading of Lisbon âLiberty Beacon' Halts Exodus to America,”
Christian Science Monitor
, December 16, 1941, 7.
2
.
Boston Daily Globe
, “Hundreds Lose Out on Last U.S. Liner Sailing From Lisbon,” December 14, 1941, 10.
3
. W. E. Lucas, “Fading of Lisbon âLiberty Beacon' Halts Exodus to America,”
Christian Science Monitor
, December 16, 1941, 7.
4
. W. E. Lucas, “Fading of Lisbon âLiberty Beacon' Halts Exodus to America,”
Christian Science Monitor
, December 16, 1941, 7.
5
.
New York Times
, “Many Missionaries Listed in War Zone,” December 14, 1941, 4.
6
.
Life
, “War,” December 15, 1941, 27.
7
. Associated Press, “Tojo Tells Japanese Diet U.S.-British Fleets âCrushed,'”
Christian Science Monitor
, December 16, 1941, 7.
8
. Franck L. Kluckhohn, “Serious Setback,”
New York Times
, December 10, 1941, 1; Charles Hurd, “Two U.S. Isles Holding Out, But Guam Is Believed Lost,”
New York Times
, December 14, 1941, 1.
9
.
Time
, “The U.S. at War,” December 15, 1941, 17.
10
. Frank L. Kluckhohn, “Roosevelt Holds Navy Conference,”
New
York
Times
, December 14, 1941, 22.
11
.
Time
, December 15, 1941.
12
. Waldo Heinrichs,
Threshold of War: Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Entry Into World War II
(Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1990), 18.
13
.
Time
, “Labor: Hip & Thigh,” November 10, 1941;
Time
, “Letters,” December 15, 1941, 4.
14
.
Life
, “War,” December 15, 1941, 27.
15
. United Press, “President Studies First Report on Japs' Surprise Raid on Pearl Harbor,”
Yuma (AZ) Daily Sun
, December 15, 1941, 1.
16
. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, “Report by the Secretary of the Navy to the President,” December 14, 1941.
17
. United Press, “President Gives Background of War With Japan,”
Yuma (AZ) Daily Sun
, December 15, 1941, 1.
18
. Associated Press, “F.D.R. Declares Jap Attack Case of Horror,”
Birmingham (AL) News
, December 15, 1941, 1.
19
. Associated Press, “Legion Asks Tobey to Demonstrate His Allegiance to U.S.,”
Birmingham (AL) News
, December 15, 1941, 6.
20
. United Press, “Knox Reveals Six U.S. Warships Lost in Hawaii Attack,”
Yuma (AZ) Daily Sun
, December 15, 1941, 2.
21
. United Press, “President Gives Background of War With Japan,”
Yuma (AZ) Daily Sun
, December 15, 1941, 1.
22
.
Time
, “The U.S. At War,” December 15, 1941, 18.
23
.
Washington Evening Star
, “Secretary Knox's Account of Surprise Attack on Hawaii,” December 15, 1941, A1.
24
. United Press, “Knox Reveals Six U.S. Warships Lost in Hawaii Attack,”
Yuma (AZ) Daily Sun
, December 15, 1941, 1.
25
. United Press, “President Studies First Report On Jap's Surprise Raid on Pearl Harbor,”
Yuma (AZ) Daily Sun
, December 15, 1941, 1.
26
. Charles Hurd, “Heroic Acts Cited,”
New York Times
, December 16, 1941, 1.
27
. United Press, “Knox Reveals Six U.S. Warships Lost in Hawaii Attack,”
Yuma (AZ) Daily Sun
, December 15, 1941, 1.
28
. United Press, “Knox Reveals Six U.S. Warships Lost in Hawaii Attack,”
Yuma (AZ) Daily Sun
, December 15, 1941, 1.
29
.
Washington Evening Star
, “Secretary Knox's Account of Surprise Attack on Hawaii,” December 15, 1941, A1.
30
.
Washington Evening Star
, “Secretary Knox's Account of Surprise Attack on Hawaii,” December 15, 1941, A1.
31
.
Washington Evening Star
, “Secretary Knox's Account of Surprise Attack on Hawaii,” December 15, 1941, A1.
32
. Turner Jordan, “President Roosevelt on All Stations Over Bill of Rights Program,”
Birmingham (AL) News
, December 15, 1941, 7.
33
.
Los Angeles
Times, “City Unites Today to Honor Bill of Rights Anniversary,” December 15, 1941, A1; United Press, “President to Speak Tonight at 8:00 M.S.T.,”
Yuma (AZ) Daily Sun
, December 15, 1941, 1.