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Rugged, white-haired Andy Andrews had been one of the first U.S. commanders to see the future role of air power and, in particular, the possibilities in long-range bombing. More than once he had stuck out his square jaw against all rules of Army protocol and politics, and after 1935, when he organized the General Headquarters Air Force, he lived most of the time in hot water. His fight for air power finally became such a nuisance to more conservative officers that in 1939 Major General Andrews was removed from his high post, rusticated to Fort Sam Houston...
...stooping effigy of Jesus, with jointed arms hanging from a green cotton dress, had human hair on its head. A small naked statue, honored as a protector against syphilis, sat in a shrine made from an old oilcan. A portable sepulcher held a recumbent Christ, whose bloodstained jaw and neck could be moved puppetwise by strings. These crude but striking effigies formed part of an exhibition of Religious Folk Art of the Southwest which opened last week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
Quickly Petroleum Administrator Harold L. Ickes, who had been honing up his snickersnee, slashed away, too : the rubber program was "a sock in the jaw for the 100-octane program, has already cost us 7,000,000 barrels that are gone forever...
Frontier Life. In Mankota, Sask., a steer in a cattle car poked a horn through the car's slats, caught up a switch lamp en route, baffled the engineer by swinging red and green signals all the way to Moose Jaw...
...felt as though I were being entangled by an octopus. His arms and legs were all around me. Then at one point I was strangling from water that went in through the hole in my jaw...