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Last week Dr. George Gallup published a survey on Defense and what people thought about it. He found them unhappy (and misinformed) about the rate of plane production, deeply concerned for the gen eral state of Defense. He also found a majority for: > Running defense factories 24 hours a day (three shifts...
...bounty for enlisting. In 1864, when conscription had at last been voted, pay rose to $14.87. Ma jor General Ulysses Simpson Grant by then was winning the war and buying his salutary whiskey on $2,640 a year (plus keep, four servants). As a lieutenant gen eral and later a full general he received $3,240 to $4,800 (plus keep and servants...
That opportunity came with the Senate investigation. Though the sale had been approved by the preceding administration, Ortiz' longtime friend, War Minister Gen eral Carlos D. Marquez, was held morally responsible, since he had authorized payment. The conservatives lost no time in making political hay of this, used it as a reflection on the whole Ortiz regime...
...around the President are sev eral groups, reflecting the uses he has for them, and his personal liking. Those who attract his mind are usually those who fight a brilliant kind of intellectual guerrilla warfare which their opponents call outright unscrupulous. All are New Dealers to the core-which perhaps explains Mr. Roosevelt's refusal up to now to surrender one jot of the New Deal in the interest of Defense. Yet, Harry Hopkins again excepted, the President's warm, confiding friendliness is reserved for men who are comfortably conservative, cautious, even stodgy by the standards...
...directed them to submit the names of candidates for their ministries. When they did, he summoned three men. The first, onetime president of the monopolistic South Manchuria Railway Yosuke Matsuoka, promptly accepted the ticklish post of Foreign Minister. The second, Director General of Military Aviation Lieut. Gen eral Eiki Tojo, took the War Ministry; and the third, Yonai's Navy Minister Vice Admiral Zengo Yoshida, agreed to stay in office...