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...Missourian. In Kansas City, a traveler stepped off a cross-country bus, asked the way to Woodward Avenue, indignantly insisting he was in Detroit. Replied the path-guider: "Well, I'm in Kansas City...
Like other squadrons, they have their separate mess, quarters and administration. But at Red Cross clubs, movies, officers' clubs and post exchanges they mingle freely with white soldiers and have felt no particular race consciousness. Said a fellow flyer last week (a Missourian in a white squadron operating from the same base...
...Record. Earlier, Wendell Willkie faced 100 Missouri G.O.P. bigwigs and businessmen at a spark-charged luncheon in St. Louis' Hotel Jefferson. One Missourian came out mumbling: "He tore into us like a biting sow." For Willkie had said to the big men from Missouri...
Chief beneficiary: a Missourian who searched all over Los Angeles for three days without finding work, began drinking in desperation, landed in jail and a boilermaker...
...around bungling-some of it involving himself-as to make lesser men despair of democracy. By & large the report was sound and thorough, though its value was lessened by the sensational and politically tinged charges made by Senator Truman in his summary of it to the Senate. The Missourian, perhaps out of his anxiety to get a new $100,000 appropriation to continue his probe, weakened his own work by resorting to claptrap generalizations, even by gross errors-such as an assertion that more than half of U.S. total pursuit-plane production in 1942 would be of mediocre models...