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Some confusion has been caused by the prevalence of the Flynn elan on Soldiers Field. Lee Flynn, no relation, is the cause of the mixup, but there is no similarity in their builds. Lee is small and very fast, with a good throwing arm, while Wally is a 190 pounder...
...battle pitches a tent of smoke and dust over itself. Into the murk new forms rush. Supply vehicles, naked of protection, dart squarely into the mixup, make contact with tanks which have run out of fuel or ammunition, and, if they are not crumpled, bounce out again. Command cars dash in & out. Ambulances go in undaunted, and their crews run about hunting wounded...
Screwiest mixup was in Baltimore, where the voters had authorized a $10,000,000 bond issue for new schoolhouses in May 1939. But dawdling Mayor Howard W. Jackson, having spent less than $100,000 of it, seized upon national defense last week as a pretext for halting school construction altogether. His excuse: building costs were high; labor and steel were scarce; it would be better to spend the $10,000,000 after the emergency to relieve unemployment. Informed of the mayor's action at a press conference last week, youth-minded Eleanor Roosevelt exclaimed: "Horrible...
...throw any light on this mixup...
...fantastic mixup between Progressives and Democrats, piled up on Wisconsin's Senator Robert Marion La Follette Jr. Not until the last precincts had reported could he be sure of beating sober, conservative Republican Frederick H. Clausen...