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...combat; death by accident had accounted for more than 34,000; number missing and lost by enemy capture: 56,000. By far the largest number of separations were honorable discharges, which have been given to 903,000. For them the War Department has issued a small gold-plated lapel button depicting an eagle flapping its wings...
...State Democratic Chairman. The woman for the post was a fine local lady with eight children. Labor plugged the State Democratic Chairman. Then A.F. of L. and C.I.O. both plugged A.F. of L.'s Dan Tobin. Three ex-Congressmen called to offer themselves. The Governor dragged lapel-hangers along when he walked abroad. Strangers breathed down his neck as he lunched. The phone calls came from all over the country. Telegrams came from both coasts. The Governor's secretary counted the telegrams the third night: 275. On the final night, with good Senator Van Nuys scarcely...
...aware, the OWI has distributed throughout the world lapel badges bearing the picture of President Roosevelt. ... It may be that Private Meyerson resented this propaganda at the battlefront and sought to counteract it. ... I suggest, therefore, in order to keep the Navy free of any charge of aiding New Deal propaganda within our Armed Forces that you make public the censored portion of Private Meyerson's letter, and, if necessary, inquire from him what he sought to tell his mother...
...Army began issuing eagle-winged plastic lapel buttons to men & women with honorable discharges...
Wallace's bout with the Nation's carriers was staged in Dallas, which is Democratic but not New Dealish. There the Vice President was roundly snubbed by top business and civic leaders, roundly welcomed by labor groups, who pinned their insignia on his lapel. In his speech the Vice President sailed into the railroads with old-fashioned muckraking, trust-busting fervor. He swung hard...