Word: brewster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maine's Ralph Owen Brewster was most concerned about Lend-Lease, charged that it was being mismanaged, cited as an example of mismanagement the fact that Australia got 30,000 new trucks for civilian use as compared to 15,000 for the U.S., said he would ask the Truman Committee to investigate...
When the little group of professional isolationists tried to capitalize on the ammunition passed them by the Senators, Maine's Brewster stepped in to do some scotching. Said he: "I can serve as Exhibit A for isolationists on our difficulties around the world. Yet I am convinced that we are in the game to stay, and rather than pull out our marbles we had better put more in and learn to shoot straight...
Pilgrims' Progress. Senator Brewster's point, that the U.S. was "in the game to stay," was backed up everywhere by evidence that the U.S. was already hip-deep in world affairs...
...beyond the three-mile limit as experts. They had been in the way of the war at times, had been a headache to the military. But they had come back with one lesson deeply engraved: World War II is a long way from being won. Said Maine's Brewster, summing up: "Our soldiers know how tough this war is. We ought to know how tough...
...Japs have a new fighter, more formidable than the Zeros.* Maine's Senator Ralph 0. Brewster (see p. 13) declared last week that the ratio of U.S. air victories has begun to drop, that Major General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force flyers in China were so surprised by their first brush with Japan's new fighter that they lost five out of seven bombers...