Murphy, Audie He was born on this day in 1924. He was the most decorated American Soldier of WWII, he also achieved fame as an actor in movies (Westerns). An autobiographical movie was made of his heroic combat exploits. He was active and interested in Freemasonry. He was initiated an Entered Apprentice Mason on February 14, 1955 at North Hollywood Lodge #542 in Hollywood, California. He received his Fellow Craft degree on April 4, 1955 and got his Master Mason Degree on June 27, 1955. He was a dual member of Heritage lodge #764 in Hollywood, California. He received his 32 degree from the Scottish Rite Temple in Dallas, Texas on November 14, 1957 and became Shriner at Hella Temple in Dallas, Texas on November 15, 1957. He is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. He entered the Celestial Lodge on May 28, 1971

On this date in 1881, Mason, Albert G. Mackey, Masonic author and Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction of the U.S., died.

Mason and President Harry S. Truman vetoed the Taft=Hartley Act on this day in 1947.

The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 29 U.S.C. § 401-531 better known as the Taft–Hartley Act, (80 H.R. 3020, Pub.L. 80–101, 61 Stat. 136, enacted June 23, 1947) is a United States federal law that restricts the activities and power of labor. The act, still effective, was sponsored by Senator Robert Taft and Representative Fred A. Hartley, Jr., and became law by overcoming U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto on June 23, 1947; labor leaders called it the "slave-labor bill" while President Truman argued that it was a "dangerous intrusion on free speech", and that it would "conflict with important principles of our democratic society".