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There was little prospect that the Beveridge scheme would be adopted by the present predominantly Conservative Parliament elected in 1935. Sober, competent New York Timesman Raymond Daniell cabled: "This, it has been predicted, will be the longest step this country has ever been asked to take toward economic reform, and the best political opinion is that it is doomed before [it has] ever seen the light of day, so far as this Parliament is concerned...
Commanded by Colonel Eugene Eubank (now a brigadier general in the Bomber Command in Washington), most of the original 19th arrived in the Philippines in November 1941, after the longest mass flight (24 Flying Fortresses) in U.S. aviation history. (Such flights are now routine.) It found its base, Clark Field, little more than a cow pasture. When the Japs hit Clark Field Dec. 8 the U.S. Army knew so little about modern warfare that many men sought cover under the wings of the planes on the field. They paid with their lives. Almost half of the 19th's Fortresses...
...longest struggles in U.S. labor history last week came to an end. Sergei Koussevitzky's superb Boston Symphony, only surviving major non-union orchestra in the U.S., finally knuckled under to Boss James Caesar Petrillo's Federation of Musicians...
...they had already done much damage in the raid four weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 19). This week, while other Allied bombers pasted Le Havre, U.S. forces made their first raid on St. Nazaire's big submarine base where strong defenses cost the loss of three Fortresses in the longest operational flight yet undertaken by U.S. airmen...
...first and longest-standing boss was fiery, bombastic Smedley D. Butler, famed soldier-orator of the last generation (TIME, June 20, 1927). Vandegrift served with Old Gimlet Eye at Leon and Coyotepe Hill in Nicaragua; landed with him at Veracruz; fought with him in Haiti; helped pacify the Chinese Nationalists in Shanghai and Tientsin, in the late '20s. Through these years he was the apple of Old Gimlet Eye's eye, and earned himself the nickname of Sunny...