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This week, as in 1917, high on Army's headache list is a shortage of good corporals, sergeants and second lieutenants, without which Army's whopping training program may well founder. To get noncoms and shavetails in quantity, Army bosses may well have to junk some tenets of promotion by seniority. Stock Army retort to suggestions of promotion for merit has long been that such a system would encourage political toadying; but low-bracket officers must be found, even if dull-witted veterans are passed over to commission brainy tenderfeet. To ferret out officer material, all rookies...
...with a brand-new bicycle, took the guests to see the apple of his eye, his pet project, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library: three stories of fieldstone cottage, in whose 60-odd exhibition rooms and offices are being installed one of the greatest collections of memorabilia and historic junk ever gathered-a collection that ranges from a Russian Tsar's red-felt-lined droshky to Roosevelt's vast political and naval library, his hundreds of boxes of papers...
...plot, which you may remember from Miss Sharp's "The Nutmeg Tree," is a set-up for the extravaganza which Miss George dotes on. It opens with her in a bath tub, selling a lot of junk to a pawn broker who stands outside the door. It ends with Miss George, as Sir William's wife, claiming the title of "Lady," rarely associated with her name before. In between Miss George returns to her daughter, whom she hasn't seen since she was three and finds her a prig and just as stuffy and sure of herself as the rest...
...Ironsides" in 1830, to remind patriots that the U. S. Frigate Constitution had served well against the Barbary pirates, the French, the British (in her most famous battle in the War of 1812 she reduced the lighter Guerriere to smoking smithereens). The poem saved the Constitution from the junk pile. From grog tub to untattered sails, she was still shipshape last week, afloat at the Boston Navy Yard and useful mainly for show to visitors. Similarly listed "in service, out of commission" until last fortnight was Constitution's contemporary, Constellation, stationed at Newport, R. I. and used to school...
...nearly all faiths (but by no means all clergymen) put themselves in opposition by sermons, letters, testimony before Congressional committees. Typical Catholic: Monsignor Michael J. Ready of the National Catholic Welfare Conference who pleaded for volunteer recruiting. Typical Methodist: prime, bespectacled Dr. Charles F. Boss Jr. (conscription would "junk the American system"). Dr. Boss presided at an anti-conscription rally in Washington, where posters ("We're using our ballots so we won't stop bullets") indicated that his audience would not furnish many volunteers...