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This is, of course, no time to start a controversy-it would be out of place and in bad taste-on the contrary, we beg you to convey our best wishes to the boys, and the best of luck. We need lots of the same while struggling with Jack Frost-building an airport north of the General's boulevard terminus...
...give up a little of their comfort so that some one else might win security for them? The President speaks of more & more sacrifices. Sacrifices-hell! Is it a sacrifice to defend one's self against impending disaster? What a ludicrous and tragic situation that soldiers must beg, actually beg, for arms to defend people who, by their very actions, don't seem to give a damn. The fine American institution of the Sunday motor trip is far more important than a boatload of supplies to the tankmen and aviators in Egypt. Sacrifices? Look to the Chinese people...
...TIME [Aug. 10] ... you state that Winston Churchill's daughter was spanked by Bill ("Feets") Adams, an American soldier who wears size 14EE shoes, the largest shoes issued by the United States Army. I beg to differ. . . . My brother, Pvt. Archie Rabhan, one of your subscribers, who is stationed in New York City, was issued size 16EE shoes...
...year-old Second Class Scout Gerald Zirbel collected 31,000 lb. of scrap iron in one week, which built up Uncle Sam's muscles as well as his own. So successful was the Boy Scout paper-salvage effort alone (300,000,000 lb.) that WPB had to beg them last week to call a halt to their "magnificent job." The Government asked them to pick up something else for a while-rubber, for instance...
...beg you to believe me that this opposition of mine is no mere political dispute; it is a deep conflict of principle. I hold that no man should ascend to the bench to pass upon the rights, even the lives, of other men when he is obligated to a political boss.... Still worse, it seems to me, would be a judge long associated with and long beholden to a man who says that and acts as if the law begins and ends with himself." So wrote Governor Edison of New Jersey...