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Next day Colonel Edward Vernon ("Eddie") Rickenbacker, No. 1 U. S. War ace, now vice president of North American Aviation, took the stand to rebut Billy Mitchell. Rickenbacker's recipe: "I would use planes to make love to Japan. I would kiss her with a few dirigibles." Chief article in his lovemaking would be a trans-Pacific airline operated jointly by the U. S. and Japan. Less idyllic was Col. Rickenbacker's picture of engines of Death in the Next War: "Airplanes . . . will pick up fast tanks and drop them over enemy lines without landing. Planes will fire...
...debtors, owing $275,450,000, were delinquent in their payments?11½% over 90 days, 12% under 90 days. Last year delinquencies ran about 10%. That about three out of four farmers had kept up their Farm Loan payments Commissioner Bestor thought was "an excellent showing under the circumstances." To rebut the notion that the Farm Loan Board was a harsh moneylender, he declared that only 3,848 loans ?less than 6% of the delinquencies?had been foreclosed this year. Said he: "There are some individual farmers who owe everybody in the country and it's not worth while...
...President Osborn sat down, Curator Ales Hrdlicka (pronounced hurdlitchka) of the U. S. National Museum, an anthropologist, rose to rebut: "There is endless chance for further evolution and it is going on. To assume that the evolution of man is ended blocks every road to the future. . . . There is that [Biblical] belief that man was created and not evolved. Sometimes it is subconscious. But it has its effect...
Rebuttal. Mrs. Sanger's great, good and aged friend, Senator Gillett, gave her 15 minutes to rebut her critics. Rapidly and angrily she pounced on them: "Of women who visit Birth Control clinics 33% are Protestant, 32% Catholic, 31% Jewish. . . . We only ask that medical men be allowed to import contraceptive articles and that medical journals be permitted to print articles on the subject...
...Drys, Consolidated, began to present their evidence to the House Judiciary Committee against pending resolutions to repeal the 18th Amendment. Like everyone else, they knew the resolutions had only the remotest chance of passage, but the committee hearings had put them in a position where they had to rebut the voluminous testimony of 45 Wet witnesses piled up before the committee (TIME, March...