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...Administration. They had spoken only 24 hours after Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh had roused a big Manhattan rally of the America First Committee by declaring that the great, silent majority of the U.S. people, "who have no newspaper, or newsreel, or radio station at their command," were opposed to U.S. participation...
...Democracy" (according to its lyricist) was last week plugged in Los Angeles by Major Alberto E. Merrill, U.S. Army, and four recruiting sergeants. The Army has been plagued by many a song-plugger and press agent, but A Grand Vacation With Pay is the first recruiting song to command official sanction. Its authors are L. Wolfe Gilbert and Jimmy McHugh (Waiting For the Robert E. Lee, I Can't Give You Anything But Love and Ramona...
...River Plate, from Alaska to Chile and as far east in the Atlantic as the Azores. Baldwin insists that defense of the hemispheric eastern coastline is impracticable until the U.S. has a base in the hump of Brazil. But until there is a unified hemispheric strategy, a unified U.S. command, a unified U.S. production plan, says Baldwin, defense effort will be hit or miss, with a dangerous percentage of misses...
...that time, there was no Department of Military Science connected with the College. A few men belonged to the state Militia, and a school for the training of civilian officers had been established in the armory "for those who wished to take command should an emergency call them into the field to defend their country...
During the summer of 1916, an act passed by Congress provided for a corps of trained officers to command reserve forces in time of war. Open to all students except Freshmen, the ROTC unit set up here was to be called Military Sceince and Tactics 1. The Regiment would continue to exist, but not on a voluntary basis since its members were to be drawn from Mil. Sci. The new courses were to have fixed weekly hours of instruction under an officer of the army...