Democratic (socialist/proto-fascist) President Wilson—without a constitutional amendment—signs the Alexander Merchant Marine Act, creating the United states Shipping Board, to create a Merchant Marine Fleet due to the loss of civilian vessels in the Great War (World War I).
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Authority:
“Law of the Jungle”
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 289.
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