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Suicidal morbidity, distraction through fatigue, uncontrollable confusion or duodenal ulcers are effects most likely to develop during pre-battle training. Extreme neuroses-blindness, insanity, paralysis-usually occur only in combat...
...here with the troops. . . . My brother Franklin has been on a destroyer in the North Atlantic. . . . James has insisted on active duty, even though he is not physically up to the strain of combat...
...time for several months the House of Representatives has been lectured by Kansas Representative William P. Lambertson on a theme that engrosses him: that President Roosevelt's four sons (James, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John) are getting preferential treatment in the armed services, have been coddled and "jerked" from combat zones. Republican leaders tried in vain to silence the Kansas sniper. Last week Democrats made a crushing answer...
...women do 600 different kinds of work, which includes everything but actual combat duty. The purpose of the WAAC is to free men for overseas duty, and if the goal of 150,000 is reached, it will mean that an amount of men the size of the American Expeditionary Force in North Africa has been freed to fight...
...occasion, she has had to combat the wiles of another type of women. This happened when a group of service, men on the way to a party given for them in one of Boston's dignified hotels were accosted. The embarrassed men thanked her for saving them from "the fate worse than death," while the hotel manager soon reported the additional of two house detectives...