In 1942, it was converted to a presidential retreat by Franklin D. Roosevelt and renamed " Shangri-La " ( for the fictional Himalayan paradise ).

United States Executive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones.

* 1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese-Americans to Japanese internment camps.

* 1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.

* 1942 – World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.

Executive Order 9260, dated October 29, 1942, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, established the rules for the Legion of Merit and required the President's approval for the award.

The Office of Strategic Services was established by a Presidential military order issued by President Roosevelt on June 13, 1942, to collect and analyze strategic information required by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and to conduct special operations not assigned to other agencies.

The explanation for this is that the term " United Nations " was used at the time to refer to the Allies of World War II, having been originally coined for that purpose by Roosevelt in 1942.

In 1942, when the film came out, Roosevelt ordered it rushed to theaters.

Eleanor Roosevelt ( centre ), King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in London, 23 October 1942

Eleanor Roosevelt ( centre ), King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in London, 23 October 1942

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which authorized the Secretary of War to designate military commanders to prescribe military areas and to exclude " any or all persons " from such areas.

In the spring of 1942, President Roosevelt needed his own reports on what conditions were like in the Southwest Pacific.

* 1942 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders all West Coast residents of Japanese heritage ( including 3, 100 in Valley, many of them American citizens ) relocated to internment camps.

In 1942, Roosevelt issued a General Maximum Price Regulation, followed a year later by a " Hold the Line Order " which froze prices and gave the OPA power to keep prices in check.

With Postmaster General James A. Farley and WPA administrator Harry Hopkins cutting deals with state and local Democratic officials, Roosevelt used federal discretionary spending, especially the Works Progress Administration ( 1935 – 1942 ) as a national political machine.

This shipbuilding industry was immortalized in 1942 in the painting of several murals which still exist today in the auditorium of Theodore Roosevelt High School.

That tour ended in July 1942, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered congressmen serving in the military to resign one of the two positions, and Lodge, who chose to remain in the Senate, was ordered by Secretary of War Henry Stimson to return to Washington.

In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an order to suppress prostitution near military bases — affecting the red-light districts of Reno and Las Vegas.

However, in 1942, with President Franklin D. Roosevelt having run for a third term in the United States, Trujillo ran for president again and was elected unopposed.

Medal of Honor presentation on April 21, 1942: President Roosevelt, Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy ( behind FDR ), Ernest King | Admiral Ernest King, Edward O ' Hare and his wife Rita.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in 1942 wrote to President Roosevelt: " I venture to think that the Allied declaration that the Allies are fighting to make the world safe for the freedom of the individual and for democracy sounds hollow so long as India and for that matter Africa are exploited by Great Britain ..." Roosevelt repeatedly brought the need for Indian independence to Churchill's attention, but was repeatedly rebuffed.

Early in 1942, Hellman accompanied the production to Washington, D. C., for a benefit performance where she spoke with President Roosevelt.

Chiang also ordered Ma Bufang to put his Muslim soldiers on alert for an invasion of Tibet in 1942.

In 1942, the Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler ordered the Lublin District SS-und Polizeiführer Odilo Globocnik to build the first extermination camps during Aktion Reinhard ( 1941 – 43 ), the operation to annihilate every Jew in the General Government ( occupied Poland ).

Alexander was promoted to Commander-in-Chief of Allied Land Forces in Burma, March 1942, and ordered Slim to abandon Mandalay and retreat to India.

In September 1942, after a meeting with Hitler, who was most unhappy with his Foreign Minister's actions, Ribbentrop promptly changed course and ordered that the deportations be resumed immediately.

In 1942, although still committed in his efforts to " launch a non-violent movement ", Gandhi clarified that the movement would not be stopped by individual acts of violence, saying that the " ordered anarchy " of " the present system of administration " was " worse than real anarchy.

In a retaliatory response on July 26, 1942, the Reichskommissar of the Netherlands, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, ordered the arrest of all Jewish converts, who had previously been spared.

Hitler was so confident of the success of Barbarossa that on 20 June 1941, two days before Barbarossa was to begin, he ordered that from 1 January 1942 the army was to go from first to third in regards to spending and allocation of raw materials to build up the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe.

In response to protests from other senior officers that something was amiss as proven by the loss of the entire supply ship network in early 1941, in the middle of 1941 and again in the middle of 1942, Raeder ordered investigations into the security of German codes, but in both cases, it was concluded that the British were not reading German codes because the Enigma machine was considered to be unbreakable.

In early 1942, Raeder become involved in a scandal when it was discovered that he had abused his position to buy more groceries than the rationing permitted, but Hitler ordered the matter to be covered up.

The CJCS ordered for 1942 – 43 Pacific objectives: that Guadalcanal would be carried out in conjunction with an Allied offensive in New Guinea under Douglas MacArthur, to capture the Admiralty Islands and the Bismarck Archipelago, including the major Japanese base at Rabaul.

In preparation for the offensive in the Pacific in May 1942, U. S. Marine Major General Alexander Vandegrift was ordered to move his 1st Marine Division from the United States to New Zealand.

By June 1942 the main producer of gas vans, Gaubschat Fahrzeugwerke GmbH, delivered 20 gas vans in two models ( for 30-50 and 70-100 individuals ) to Einsatzgruppen, out of 30 ordered.

In September 1942, the Germans ordered all ghetto residents to report at Targowica Square, where they were subjected to a " Selektion " ( selection ) in which those deemed " unessential " were selected out for deportation to Belzec.

General Simon Bolivar Buckner ordered the creation of Fort Randall, an airbase on the shores of Cold Bay, in 1942 as a part of a general expansion of American assets in the Aleutians.

After the St. Nazaire Raid, on April 13, 1942 Adolf Hitler ordered naval and submarine bases to be heavily defended.

Reichsfuhrer Himmler visited Zamość in August 1942 and ordered that the buildings of the old city be demolished immediately and replaced by a " German town ".

On December 16, 1942, Himmler ordered that the Romani candidates for extermination should be deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

In 1906, the couple's vacation home on Jekyll Island was completed ; nicknamed " Indian Mound ", the 25-room " cottage " remained in the family until ordered evacuated in 1942 by the U. S. government ; five years later the entire island was purchased by the state of Georgia, and decades later it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Rockefeller Cottage.

In late May 1942, as the Afrika Korps prepared to attack Bir Hakeim, Koenig ordered Travers and other women out of the area.

A Jewish survivor of Jasenovac, Egon Berger, has described Filipović ’ s sadistic killing of children, while two other witnesses, Šimo Klaić and Dragutin Škrgatić: Klaić recalls that in Christmas 1942, Miroslav ordered mass and later a muster, where he killed four inmates with a knife, while forcing a Jew of Sarajevo, Alkalaj, to sing, then ordering Alkalaj to near him, stabbing him in the chest and slashing his throat.

During the Japanese occupation of Thailand in 1942 POWs both allies and Asian laborers were ordered by the Japanese to build a Thailand-Burma railway.