While the army and navy of the United states are in Africa, Europe and the Pacific, fighting “for a world in which this [n]ation, and all that this [n]ation represents, will be safe for our children,” Democratic (socialist/fascist) de facto President Franklin Roosevelt, Esq., signs the the Public Debt Act of 1942, raising the publicly held share of the Federal debt from 65,000,000,000 to 125,000,000,000 “dollars.”

       [added 7/31/2022] Thanks to Bill Holmes for this entry.

Subsequent Events:

Authority:

“Law of the Jungle”
ccc-2point0.com/preface

References:

Encyclopedia of Banking and Finance, s.V. “NewDeal,” 753.

Public Debt Acts – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Debt_Acts

The New Deal
www.uri.edu/artsci/newecn/Classes/Art/INT1/Mac/1930s/new_deal.htm

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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