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...bill extending service for 18 months; but the Senate had not answered the big question. Isolationist after Isolationist had stood up and shouted that he wanted to be shown: Where was the emergency? Less loudly, less cogently the Administration's leaders had tried to prove that the peril to the U.S. was immense and soon might be immediate. They lost the argument but passed the bill; enough middle-roaders went along with them to shove the measure through, 45-to-30 (ten Senators ducked a vote, were "ill," "out of town" or just-away...
...fellows remained to be seen. The Senate had beaten down attempts to make the extension for only six months (proposed by Ohio's Robert Taft), for only twelve months (Ohio's Harold Burton), had finally agreed on 18 months and a limited declaration of "national peril." House leaders privately feared that the best they could hope for was a six-months' extension. The Isolationists, supposedly on the defensive, were smiting their opponents hip & thigh...
...letter aloud, then showed the press a similar card, sent to Lieut. Alfred T. Hearne at Fort McIntosh, Tex. Had Mr. Secretary any comment on these exhibits? Yes, he had jotted down something. From a typewritten flimsy he read: ". . . It is necessary to keep this force in existence . . . peril still exists. ... At this moment, a circular is sent out which will have the effect of impairing discipline. . . . Without expressing legal opinions, I will simply say that I think that comes very near the line of subversive activities against the United States-if not treason." With this terrible word in their...
...time Jax turns a fledgling loose in a "yellow peril" (primary trainer), the Navy has fashioned him into the rough framework of a seagoing man. He says "Knock off the chatter" when he means shut up, "shove off" when he means leave, calls the floor "the deck," tells you to "bear a hand" instead of hurry up, describes things as "squared away" when they are in order. From 5 a.m. reveille to 9 p.m. taps, he takes orders and gets little thanks. He learns not to resent the peremptory nature of commands, comes to see that brusqueness and military efficiency...
...workers. . . . Where will America get [them]? . . . [By] recruiting and training . . . many more women for defense jobs. . . . Another source of manpower which must increasingly be used is the Negro worker. . . . First things must come first . . . the first job this nation has to do is to put a period to the peril which arises 'from ruthless men of force who care nothing for civil liberties and who mock at all appeals to humanity...