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Harry Hopkins, who rose from social worker to WPAdministrator to Secretary of Commerce and No. 1 confidant of the President of the U. S., once marveled to a friend: "I have to pinch myself to be sure I am not dreaming. Think of it, a son of an Iowa harness maker in the Cabinet." Harry Hopkins said then that he had entered the Cabinet on a "shoe string" and would go out the same way. Last week came the shoestring marked...
...Long Island, is the Army's Mitchel Field, seat of the Air Defense Command. Through the whole northeast are scores of fields, ranging from New York City's LaGuardia and Floyd Bennett to emergency stops on the airline runs, from which Army aircraft could operate in a pinch. With Canada's cooperation, the use of Canadian fields would also be available. The second defense of the U. S. would be a big enough air force to cripple the invader's bases and communications while protecting those of the U. S. The third defense would...
Plump Colonel Frank Knox, new U. S. Secretary of the Navy, whose name has appeared in the Chicago Daily News masthead since 1931 as Editor and Publisher, dropped his title and job, appointed a three-man regency* to pinch-hit for him. Ten days later the Republican News in a front-page editorial came out for Willkie...
...maidens he had picked for his Youth Orchestra, started rehearsing them night & day, at $50 apiece a week. Atlantic City's Mayor Thomas D. Taggart Jr. gave them free lodgings at the city's swankest hotels. To season his unbaked orchestra, Stokowski added the merest pinch (18 men) of experienced Philadelphia Orchestra men, thus reducing its 100% U. S. content by about 1%. By the time he was through rehearsing he had fired a couple of woodwinds, had cajoled, scolded, flattered the rest into efficient adoration. To thank Mayor Taggart for the free bed & board, Stokowski...
...Witnesses away; they stir up the public authorities against them; in times of excitement and hysteria they organize mobs and beat them up. . . . Lastly there is the irritating question of the flag salute. . . . What were the early Christians doing but this very thing when they refused to put their pinch of salt upon the altars of the Roman emperor?" The practical examiner was Reporter Malcolm Logan of the New York Post, whose series of four articles disclosed that...