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Among the Canteen's visitors have been Eleanor Roosevelt, the Duchess of Windsor (same evening), Lord & Lady Halifax, Herbert Hoover. Among its 300 entertainers each week have been Marlene Dietrich, Gertrude Lawrence, Grace Moore, Tallulah Bankhead, Ethel Merman. Other tidbits...
From the Senate came another wrench in manpower planning. Alabama's John H. Bankhead drafted two bills to defer agricultural labor from the draft, force the release on furlough for farm work of Army men who had been farmers. Franklin Roosevelt made a countermove-suggested some use of soldiers in harvesting crops, volunteer harvesting by children...
...Senate, up rose Alabama's bald, cotton-wise John H. Bankhead, to propose a Congressional examination of the Army goals. Said John Bankhead...
...Farm State Senators, whose constituents have been hardest hit by the draft, were quick to rally to Bankhead's side. Their chief arguments...
Between the Army and such Senators as John Bankhead, Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt was in the middle last week. Paul McNutt must find the men the Army asks for-but he can go to the President if he considers the Army's demands too high. It appeared that McNutt, who would like to compromise on a figure of 9,000,000 men, might do just that...