Tuesday, February 22, 1944

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The Headlines

BYRNES APPOINTS 2 KEY EXECUTIVES FOR BARUCH PLAN; Gen. Hines, Veterans' Bureau Chief, and W.L. Clayton to Map Post-War Set-Up NOT BY-PASSING CONGRESS War Mobilization Head Says Work Piles Up -- Roosevelt Authorizes Property Unit NAMES 2 KEY MEN FOR BARUCH PLAN

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My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart?)

Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra with Eugenie Baird

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On This Day

• World War II: The Soviet Red Army recaptures Krivoi Rog.

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• World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.

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You Share a Birthday With

• George Washington (1732)
• Arthur Schopenhauer (1788)
• Heinrich Hertz (1857)
• Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857)
• Horst Köhler (1943)

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Tech Check

Harvard Mark I Computer, Kidney Dialysis Machine & Synthesized Quinine.

Cost of Living (1940)