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...Marine or Air Corps posts that one or another of our Army & Navy reporters has not visited for you in the past three years-in the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean, Great Britain, Australia or the Hawaiians. They have looped in gliders at Twentynine Palms, sweated in tanks at Fort Knox, Ky., slid in the snow with the ski troopers on Mt. Rainier. They have visited scores of aircraft factories, tank arsenals and munitions plants-spent hours and even days in the testing laboratories and on the firing ranges -sailed on some of our biggest war ships...
...moment, the President paused to act on domestic troubles. This program note was an executive order creating a new superagency called the Office of War Mobilization. Headed by Justice James F. Byrnes, OWM will include in its membership Secretaries Stimson and Knox, Harry Hopkins, Donald Nelson and the new face of Judge Fred M. Vinson. Mr. Roosevelt's personal program was unwritten but plain: from now on he would be Commander in Chief. "Assistant President" Jimmy Byrnes would boss the home front. Boss Jimmy promised the U.S.: "Many attacks on many fronts lie ahead...
...McKenzie. Said one of them: "We have come to praise the disruption fathers, not to entomb them anew under any rearrangement of admitted facts." By & large, the good folk of Edinburgh seemed somewhat indifferent to both installations. Some citizens even derided the ceremonial pomp of the larger group. John Knox, some felt sure, would have lambasted their ceremonial complacency just as roundly as he had denounced Queen Mary's. Said one shrewd old Scottish reprobate, watching the colorful procession debouching from St. Giles's : "Just luik at they weeked auld deevils...
Secessions were nothing new for the Scots. They have thrived on religious rebellion from Knox's day down. While last century's revolt did not cause men to murder one another, as happened on earlier occasions, ministers who refused to help in the fight for a free and democratic kirk found themselves sometimes in awkward spots, including being hung by the heels under parish bridges...
Navy Secretary Frank Knox had been there. So had Senator Styles Bridges, Louisiana's Congressman James Morrison, a major general, an archduke, industrialists, and a host of other Washington characters, known & unknown. Host of the house on R Street was one James Porter Monroe, dour, bald, and effusive. Hostess was a Mrs. Eula Smith, Alabama-born, tall, sedate, aloof...