Monday, September 24, 1945. Hirohito threw Tojo under the bus for Pearl Harbor. Elevator operators on strike.

Hirohito threw Tojo under the bus for Pearl Harbor.

Manhattan elevator operators went on strike.

It's odd to think of them going on strike.  They were common at the time, and were into the 1960s.  Now, of course, they're so rare that most people have never encountered one.

Miss Dorothy Eyster, an elevator operator at a downtown office building in Philadelphia, in 1943. The occupation had been considered a male one in the United States, but women broke into in increasing numbers during World War Two, although there were female elevator operators prior to that.  By the 1950s and 1960s, female elevator operators were common.  This photograph gives a good example of elevator controls of the period.

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Tuesday, September 11, 1945. The arrest of Tojo.

Hideki Tojo attempted suicide when American troops arrived at his home to arrest him as a war criminal.  The self inflicted gunshot wound was not fatal.

He's entered the Japanese Army as an officer in 1905, right after the Russo Japanese War.  He became Prime Minister in October, 1941, and advocated for war against the United States, and occupied that position until July 1944, at which time he was replaced as it was realized that the United States would not negotiate with him, and indeed he was tried as a war criminal and executed in 1948.

The U.S. House voted for a Congressional investigation of Pearl Harbor.  The measure had already passed the Senate.

The Chinese Nationalist Army occupied Hanoi under agreement with the Allied Powers, pending resumption of French control of Indochina.

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