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...HARRY G. MILNER...
...powerful United Automobile Workers, invaded Texas to test the law. In the little oil town of Pelly, he hoisted his 240 lb. to a platform, made an organizing speech while workers encouraged him with traditional Texas yells of "Pour it on 'em." Deputy Sheriff W. B. Milner whispered to Thomas' publicity man that "it wouldn't count" unless Thomas made a direct appeal to an individual. The publicity man passed up a note to his boss. Said he: "It's getting damned hard to get arrested these days...
Bullet Lou Kirn (he got his nickname and his cagey heart at Annapolis, playing football) was all Navy: a bear for work, a hater but an understander of red tape, not a liberty hound, never so tired he could not jack his tired men. Bob Milner, the squadron's Executive Officer, was the opposite of relaxed Lou Kirn. In the cockpit he jumped around like a monkey, twisting knobs, pushing levers, pulling his hood open and slamming it shut again, punching out Morse-code messages to his wingmen with his fist. But he was a smooth flyer...
Through the night and into the next morning the Japs met Carlson's men with rifles, machine guns and automatic grenade-throwers. Each machine gun and grenade nest had to be exterminated, to the last Jap. Corporal Edward R. Wygel of Milner, Idaho killed all but two Japs at a machine gun with a hand grenade. He then killed one of the two with a pistol, the other with his knife...
...thin-faced, bookish Oxford graduate of 23, working in South Africa under the great liberal imperialist Lord Milner. he had absorbed Milner's vision of the democratic Empire, steadily evolving toward the greater self-government of its various units, releasing the native genius of its different people, and yet unified under the structure of English constitutional law. He saw his years of work for a peaceful, democratic Empire set back by the impact of World War I, in which his only brother was killed. As Lloyd George's secretary during the war, he had worked for the League...