Word: congressmen
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Recently General Henry H. Arnold, chief of the A.A.F., made a strong bid before attentive Congressmen for Jacqueline Cochran's WASPs, contending that all men pilots would eventually be needed elsewhere (TIME, April 3). This was a startling statement to some 11,000 experienced male pilots of the Civil Aeronautics Administration, many of whom have long been serving as instructors in Army and Navy training programs. With those programs tapering off, at least 5,000 of them will soon be out of jobs. Many are over age for combat flying, and some have minor physical defects which would...
...flood of indignant letters to Congressmen, the men argued that their greater numbers and experience gave them priority over the fledgling WASPs (who number some 500) as candidates for official rating. Another point in their favor: women pilots in regular service are usually grounded several days out of every month...
...Hitler, too, was once a silly-looking seditionist who used his trial as a forum for spreading propaganda and winning new converts. The Chicago Tribune, favorite organ of most of the defendants, wrote indulgently of the "crackpots" who were the victims of a New Deal "smear campaign" against isolationist Congressmen...
...Aloof. Of perennial concern to many Congressmen is the apparent refusal of the Army and Navy to cooperate...
...Power. The Congressmen seemed to understand that mistakes would be made in handling such astronomical sums of money. But behind their questioning lay a suspicion, deeply rooted in the civilian U.S., which was emerging slowly but surely as World War II developed. Was the professional military reaching for too much power, grabbing money while the grabbing is good? Item: to some members $500,000,000 more seemed too steep for new shore-based Navy works within the U.S. when everything seemed to be moving overseas...