Daily Bread for 3.11.14

Good morning.

Tuesday in Whitewater will be rainy, with a high of forty-one.

Whitewater’s Parks & Rec Board meets at 5:30 PM.

On this day in 1941, Pres. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Bill into law.  Here’s how the New York Times reported the story:

Washington, March 11 _ President Roosevelt signed the history making lease-lend bill at 3:50 P. M. today immediately after receiving it from the Capitol, where the House completed action by accepting the Senate amendments by a vote of 317 to 71.

Five minutes after the bill was signed the President approved a list of undisclosed quantities of war materials to be transferred at once from the American Army and Navy to the British and the Greeks, to bolster these powers in their life-and-death struggle with the Axis. Most of these first materials, the nature of which the President guarded, will go to Great Britain. Having thus promptly set the machinery to motion toward making the United States “the Arsenal of Democracy,” Mr. Roosevelt began work on a request to be sent to Congress tomorrow for an immediate appropriation of $7,000,000,000 with which to press the lease-lend effort to the fullest possible extent under the new law. This, he intimated, would be likely to include help to China as well as to Great Britain and Greece, and to all other nations which later may find themselves under threat of the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo alliance.

Here’s Puzzability’s Tuesday game:

This Week’s Game — March 10-14

Easy as Pi

This Friday is Pi Day: 3.14. For each day this week, we’re celebrating by starting with a word and adding the two-letter chunk PI (before, within, or after) to get a new word. The two-word answer phrase, described by each day’s clue, is the shorter word followed by the PI word.

Example:

Noisy bird that’s a sorcerer

Answer:

Mage magpie

What to Submit:

Submit the two-word phrase, with the PI word second (as “Mage magpie” in the example), for your answer.

Tuesday, March 11

Judge at the trial of Jesus who fails to show up on time