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...last week a little group of Congressmen got together to crusade for their idea. Joining forces were Harry S. Truman and Harley M. Kilgore (of the Senate's Truman Investigating Committee), John H. Tolan (of the House's Tolan Investigating Committee), James E. Murray (Senate Small Business Committee) and Claude Pepper (Senate Labor Committee). New Dealers all, they went ahead this time without White House approval. Said they: "In eight months this war can be won if we tackle now a resolute overhauling of the war-production machine...
...George, who testified for him in his court-martial in 1926, is a brigadier bossing the Ferrying Command. One of Mitchell's defense counsels, Annapolis-educated Lewis Hyde Brereton, is a major general in command of U.S. Air Forces in India and China. Another defense witness, Henry Harley Arnold, has gone farther than the rest...
...fighting services-ground and air-are restricted to their simple functions, training and battle. All this suits their commanders, Lieut. Generals Lesley James McNair of the Ground Forces and Henry Harley Arnold of the Air Forces. The Services of Supply has the rest, from M.P.'s to ordnance, from housekeeping to transportation to the vast load of Lend-Lease. And that suits S.O.S.'s new boss...
Died. Walter Davidson, 65, president and co-founder of Harley-Davidson Motor Co., motorcycle manufacturers; after an operation; in Milwaukee...
Fast-moving, hard-driving A. W. S. Herrington bought the truck division of near-bankrupt Marmon Motor Car in 1931, settled down in Indianapolis. A Motor Transport Corps captain in World War I, Herrington knows trucks and tanks inside & out. He once worked for Motorcycle Makers Harley-Davidson, spent seven years as transportation engineer with the Army and Marine Corps...