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...brand-new general threw himself into the task of fortifying this land. Everywhere military installations were under construction. The general moved around, cutting red tape and finding short cuts. When cement did not arrive on time, he used stone. When milled lumber failed to show up, he cut down trees. When planes did not arrive on time to man his new airfields, he sent a terse telegram to Washington: FIELD READY FOR FIRST PLANE-FRIENDLY OR ENEMY...
...Asia, he said, "has sunk to subhuman depths of ferocity. Race antagonisms lie behind it. We are now creating a generation of American and Japanese youth seared with the brand of mutual hate and contempt." Invasion, bombing and unconditional surrender will be followed by the outlawry, duplicity and mutual suspicion which military occupation is bound to bring. And this may lead to a nationalistic government cool to foreign Christianity and firmly behind Japan's ancient and ingrained ancestor-emperor worship...
...Lyon have been one of the smoothest management blends in the tobacco business. Chalkley keeps his eye on tobacco buying. Al Lyon does the selling. His first job was to turn Philip Morris from a "class" cigaret which sold only 3,800,000,000 a year into a popular brand...
Asked the Christian Science Monitor's Mary Hornaday: "I have been asked to inquire whether you consider it a justifiable gift?" Replied Mrs. Roosevelt: "It was given to me to popularize that particular brand of mink. The gentlemen who presented it asked me to keep it, and I thought it would be ungracious to turn around and give it away...
...Arnold, and his office was just an appendage of the Naval Bureau of Personnel. Last week, after a unanimous Senate vote, Chaplain Workman could not only sport the stripes of a rear admiral, but looked forward to coming home from a 25,000-mile Pacific tour to a brand-new office of the Chief of Naval Chaplains...