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...hideaway on Martha's Vineyard, Mass., he offered his services to the Army Air Corps from which he resigned last April, after Frank lin Roosevelt had pegged him as a new-day "Copperhead." At his age (40 next month), Lindbergh probably could not get a job as a combat flyer. If he were given a commission-for which, as a new applicant, he would have to wait his turn-he could serve his country usefully as a specialist in aviation. He knows a lot more about that subject than he does about world politics...
Correspondent Stowe's parting snipe was a mixture of hysteria and bad taste: "The Burma Road abuses definitely threaten to throw a much larger burden of combat throughout eastern Asia upon the Americans and the British." The Chinese remembered that for four years they had borne all the burden of combat in eastern Asia...
...brought anti-trust actions against NBC and CBS. The suits were filed on New Year's Eve, thus came under the wire as an event of 1941-the year when the New Deal finally got around to radio. Engaged since October in what they declare to be mortal combat with the Federal Communications Commission, the two big broadcasting companies now faced a second attack...
Though they will carry no guns, take no part in combat, U.S. women will soon be in the war as professional soldiers. They will wear Army uniforms, get Army pay, be subject to Army discipline. Their jobs: cooks, waitresses, mechanics, gardeners, chauffeurs, clerks, secretaries-all the behind-scenes tasks which now occupy soldiers more needed in the field...
MacArthur's combat record was brilliant. Besides two wounds, one gassing and enough praise to turn a modest man's head, he picked up 13 decorations for gallantry under fire, seven citations for extraordinary valor, 24 top decorations of foreign Governments. MacArthur remained overseas for a while with the Army of Occupation. On this tour of duty he met the Prince of Wales, who was gloomy about what he considered certain German resurgence. Said MacArthur: "We beat the Germans this time, and we can do it over again." After an astringent two-year tour of duty...