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...lank, lonely, youngish man last week found a job, and a good one. Washington at war had scant time and no consideration for Charles Augustus Lindbergh as he shouldered his solitary way through hotels packed with scurrying Government clerks, hurrying businessmen...
...Army Air Corps accepted Lindbergh's services...
...poured into the nation's 6,500 draft boards-smooth-faced young men, greying middling-agers. Many a father, scarred by World War I, signed up alongside his son. Waiting their turn in line were: a Supreme Court associate justice (William O. Douglas), an ex-hero (Charles Augustus Lindbergh), a college president (Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago). Aliens registered too: Chinese with Japanese; Austrians, Spaniards, Arabians, Hindus, Javanese. The draft boards had to have on hand specialists to translate Chinese birthdays like K.S. 23, 1, 16 (16th day, 1st month, 23rd year of the Kuang...
Charles Augustus Lindbergh called on War Secretary Henry L. Stimson, offered to serve his country as a soldier, preferably in the Air Corps. Mr. Stimson gave Citizen Lindbergh a job as a civilian expert, doing research on a mysterious "commercial project" for the War Department...
...Airman Lindbergh took the job offered, whether he liked it or not, then ducked into the office of his old America First crony, Senator Burt Wheeler. For half an hour they chewed a dark and bitter cud, while newsmen and photographers gathered outside...