Word: flier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emulating the career of another famous flier, now all but forgotten, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker has returned to this country, almost a national deity, capitalizing on the role of a hero to preach a reactionary anti-labor doctrine. Professing to be the voice of 7,500,000 soldiers, he has, in their name, denounced labor unions, urging the control of all organized workers under company unions and the complete abolition of the closed shop. In addition, the veteran flier proposes that the returning soldiers be given a favored position over the ordinary worker...
...took over Bing Crosby's program last summer, will provide the evenings laughs with his rapid-fire banter in the well-known Bob Hope fashion. Continuing in a light, though military vein, there will be brief non-official, non-technical talks by Lieutenant-Commander T. A. Collins, former Marine flier who is now senior member of the Naval Aviation Cadet Selection Board of the First Naval District, and Captain William F. Upton Jr., director of morale and recreation at Camp Edwards...
After Captain Brewer, a veteran flier of the last war, declared that college men have generally proved to be the best fliers, Lieutenant Henderson said that practically every applicant who passed the physical and mental examinations is found capable of completing the flight training which nets a commission...
Ensign Louis C. Clark '40, a United States Navy flier has been killed in action, his wife was informed by a telegraph from the Navy Department No further details were given...
...dominant-at the very heart of what had been Europe's cultural sanctuaries. To this grim fact of 1940 men tried to readjust themselves in 1941 in books like Eugene Bagger's For the Heathen Are Wrong ($3); Gottfried Leske's I Was a Nazi Flier ($2.50); Hermann Rauschning's The Conservative Revolution ($2.75); William Henry Chamberlain's The World's Iron...