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Robert Fechner himself has never specifically agreed to militarizing his boys. But when a move is afoot to cut down on CCC appropriations or to thwart his ambition to make it a permanent agency, he may stress the corps' present military values. Once he was quoted as saying that after the regular six-month CCC enrollment a graduate was "85% prepared for military life." His publicity man says a reporter put the figure in his mouth; he meant 50%. Army officers consider three months' intensive training the minimum necessary to turn a green man into a conscript fighter...
...touring car on whose back perched a fattish, blinking, middle-aged Negro in a brown tweed suit whose peculiarity is that he recognizes himself as God. Behind Major J. ("Father") Divine rode a squadron of his women cultists straddling big brewery horses. Humbler worshipers followed in cars, trucks and afoot, in a line that stretched back through the hot streets almost a mile. "PEACE IS WONDERFUL!" shouted bright placards. "PEACE! PEACE!" Occasion for this celebration was a real-estate deal...
...Secretary Ickes announced that all the Public Works projects he is setting afoot will ultimately provide $1,001,200,000 worth of building material orders, 14,225,000 man-months of labor, $515,600,000 in direct wages...
...Cheb (pop. 31,500), two miles from the German border (see map, p. 15), and near the scene where two Germans were killed fortnight ago, to stage an impressive propaganda funeral for the new "Nazi martyrs." Thousands of Sudetens poured into the 17th-Century town on autos, bicycles and afoot for the ceremony. Leaning backward to prevent another "incident," the Czechoslovakian Government ordered troops in the vicinity confined to barracks, even as far as to allow Henlein's "illegal" white-shirted Storm Troopers to assume police duties...
...these meetings, Wisconsin's slim, serious young Governor talked in significantly vague terms about his own future and the nation's. Conferees and the press, to whom Phil La Follette maintained an air of tantalizing secrecy, were led to believe that something significant was afoot. The belief was substantiated last fortnight when the Governor delivered four voluminous radio speeches on successive nights. Gist of last fortnight's radio speeches was: 1) that both La Follettes had broken with Franklin Roosevelt when he hopefully cut down on spending a year ago, and 2) that a message of first...