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Assigned to active service last week was Colonel Julius Ochs Adler, U. S. Army Reserve Corps, general manager of the New York Times, publisher of the Chattanooga Times. Called at his own request, Colonel Adler forthwith gave himself a one-year leave of absence from both his papers. This week he took command of his post: the reception centre for draftees at Fort...
Small, slight, 32-year-old Walliser is a Phi Beta Kappa from Northwestern University, despite the fact that he was nearly thrown out three times before he graduated. As an editorial writer on the Daily Northwestern, he wrote a bitter editorial criticizing the library, was forthwith fired from the paper. Next he tried his hand at the Purple Parrot, Northwestern's comic sheet, turned out a parody American Mercury, with a story about prostitutes, that resulted in the Parrot's suppression. As his farewell to collegiate belles-lettres, Walliser took over the high-brow Scrawl, had that suppressed...
When Berlin first presented the song to Kate Smith, Manager Collins had the tune set to a martial rhythm, advised Plugger Smith to give it the works. Soon, God Bless America began to go to town, was widely heralded as a new national anthem. Forthwith it was suggested that the song be rendered as a hymn. After Collins had tried it out to a pious beat, he hastily returned to the original arrangement when complaints poured...
Last week Congress passed the conscription bill. This week the President signed it. A new thing had entered U. S. life: although the U. S. had conscripted its citizens in two wars, never before had it conscripted them in peace. Some 16,500,000 men, aged 21 to 36, forthwith became liable to compulsory military service. How, when, whether conscription would actually touch them was prescribed in 1) the bill, and 2) the selective system which the Army & Navy had long since prepared against a martial...
...powers was getting Defense Commissioner Knudsen to join them on the air a few weeks back. Interviewing Knudsen, Pearson & Allen found him willing. But the National Defense Advisory Commission insisted that no one member of the Commission should make his views known before a joint report had been issued. Forthwith Pearson & Allen pulled potent strings, presently from the White House came word that Knudsen was free to face a mike...