To avert a threatened strike during the Korean War, President Truman orders Secretary of the Army <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Pace" id="mw8A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Frank Pace">Frank Pace</a> to seize control of the nation's railroads.<sup about="#mwt55" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"}}' id="cite_ref-9" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_25#cite_note-9" id="mw8Q" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 9;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw8g">[9]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"><cite about="#mwt52" class="citation web cs1" id="mwB-0"><a class="external text" href="https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/executive-orders/10155/executive-order-10155" id="mwB-4" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Executive Order 10155"</a>. <i id="mwB-8">Truman Library</i>. 25 August 1950<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwB_A">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwB_E">23 August</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt52" class="Z3988" id="mwB_I" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=Truman+Library&amp;rft.atitle=Executive+Order+10155&amp;rft.date=1950-08-25&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.trumanlibrary.gov%2Flibrary%2Fexecutive-orders%2F10155%2Fexecutive-order-10155&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAugust+25"></span></span>