Quotes About 1942

The Commission on Freedom of the Press (also known as the Hutchins Commission) was organized in 1942 by Time and Life magazine publisher Henry Luce to explore whether freedom of the press was in danger and the proper function of the media in a modern democracy.

Compulsion was a key element in Leningrad's survival, as in that of Stalin's nation. If the city's inhabitants had been offered an exchange of surrender for food in February 1942, they assuredly would have given

Beveridge Report, published in November 1942, which laid the foundations of Britain's postwar welfare state.

They wanted revenge for the Bataan Death March of 1942, during which Japanese troops killed or brutalized thousands of captured Filipino and American soldiers along a forced hundred-mile march to a prison camp.

Buying almost up to America's entrance into the war in December 1942, the New York division shipped out the last purchases within a few days of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

the average cost of murder per head ultimately came out to about two German pfennig (pennies) a person, which is to say less than one U.S. cent in 1942.