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...delivered, the Russians paid off promptly and promised further jobs. Last month, when U.S. counter-intelligence agents broke up a Soviet-run kidnap ring in Vienna, Frankey & Abel got scared. Last week to Army interrogators they confessed that they had kidnaped Eder, were locked up to wait for court-martial...
Master of the Mightiest. An all-out disciple of Brigadier General Billy Mitchell, Hap Arnold suffered a brief exile in the Army doghouse when he appeared as a defense witness at Billy's court-martial. But thereafter, he rose steadily, always trumpeting the importance of air power. In his leisure, he wrote a series of boys' books on aviation (Bill Bruce Becomes an Ace). In 1938 he became Chief of the Air Corps. In 1942, when the Army Air Forces were set up as an independent arm within the Army, Hap Arnold was its chief...
When the club brought Grover up for court martial, the children to whom he had been giving lessons picketed the club-house, weeping voluminously and crying, "We want Charlie. We want Charlie." "The officers gave me 15 minutes to clear off the premises," says Grover, "or else they would arrest me for inciting the little so-and-so's to riot." He finished the summer swimming in all the pro races he could find...
...Street which houses both the army's Eastern Territorial and National headquarters. There, a tall, grave, businesslike man named Ernest Ivison Pugmire sits at the command center of a great social welfare program. His brown eyes behind rimless spectacles are the eyes of a gentle, dedicated man. His martial, stiff-collared uniform is the uniform of a militant faith. On the walls of his large, comfortable office hang the pictures of the generals, from William Booth down, who have directed the army's battles...
...word letter to Sherman, he renewed his charges against the "Army General Staff," which he said was "a small, powerful military group" using "the Prussian method" of hoodwinking their superiors, Congress and the people. Since under regulations no officer has a right to demand such a court-martial, Captain Crommelin's statement got no further than one day's headlines. "The case is closed," said Admiral Sherman, and that was that...