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...have provoked only vituperation or sulking from those at whom they were aimed. But there is no justification for saying that organized efforts for peace are out of place in America, or in this University. It is still legal to oppose the national defense program, the ROTC, the CAA, or pro-Allied sentiment. It is still legal to express such opposition in any way compatible with public order. To call these expressions un-American may also still be legal, but is in our opinion incorrect...
...program, Bollay believes that we should take a leaf from Germany's book and subsidize commercial aviation on a grand scale preparatory to nationalization if and when war comes, as was done with railroad and shipping industries in the last war. For training civilian pilots he feels that the CAA flying course, now in operation at Harvard and many other colleges, and Colonel Knox's government-approved program are steps in the right direction...
...Under CAA rule U. S. airlines recently completed their first twelve months without a fatal crash...
...arguments for making CAA once more a part of the Department of Commerce are chiefly that: 1) it will get rid of one more independent bureau; 2) the Department of Commerce is different now -Uncle Danny Roper is gone and the Under Secretary of Commerce is able Edward John Noble, CAA's first chairman; 3) CAA's own internal checks and balances have resulted in continual quarrels and minor complaints vexing to the President. To make the Department of Commerce seem more attractive, the President last week announced that he expected to appoint CAA's present head...
Last week Missouri's Congressman John J. Cochran significantly took the attitude that there is much to be said on both sides. He told the President not to count too much on Congressional support for CAA Reorganization. He asked the press: "Don't you know that man [the President] is interested in safety, when he knows that some member of his family is traveling in an airplane every...