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...ONCE THE MOST UNTRUTHFUL, UNFAIR AND UNBECOMING A GREAT NEWS MAGAZINE THAT I HAVE EVER READ IN TIME. WHATEVER YOU THINK OF B. K. WHEELER AND FOR WHATEVER REASON, YOU CANNOT DENY UNLESS YOU ARE BLINDLY BIGOTED AND HOPELESSLY BIASED THAT HE IS ANYTHING BUT A SLACKER OR A COWARD. MORE THAN ANY OTHER MAN IN THE U.S. SENATE TODAY B. K. WHEELER IS KNOWN AND RESPECTED FOR HIS COURAGE AND HIS AMERICANISM...
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...vote arrived, Sam Rayburn was in a state of honest mental anguish; neither he nor anyone else knew for certain how the votes would go. As the clerk called the roll, Sam kept accurate count: the final tally showed the bill passed 203-202. Before any coward could switch his vote, Sam Rayburn, in a shrewd tactical move, announced the total, gaveled down all moves for reconsideration. He had won; and the U.S. Army was not disbanded four months before Pearl Harbor...
...verdict a "farce," a "travesty" and "disgustingly inadequate." The Detroit Free Press called it a "white wash" and "an insult to the fighting forces." The Detroit Times said "it will smell to heaven," and went back 131 years to find a local parallel of military shame when "the coward Hull surrendered De troit to the British without even swinging a punch...
...command of the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla. Twice his flagship, the Kelly, was badly crippled. In May 1941 he took her into the hell of Crete. That time the Kelly was finished off and the King's handsome second cousin was lucky to escape on a life raft. Noel Coward made a movie based on the Kelly's exploit: In Which We Serve...