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Mike Quill, who carries a briar stick and limps around with a bullet in his hip, which he got in the Irish Republican Army, has been fighting since he was a Boy Scout. He started his labor career in the U. S. as moneychanger in a subway booth, got interested in union politics and helped start T. W. U. In 1937 he got a closed-shop contract for his new, pugnacious union. In 1939, as candidate for re-election to the New York City Council, he took the Communist line, refused to go along with the American Labor Party...
...then I thought "A boy scout is prepared" and crazy things like that, and how a year isn't such a long time, after all, out of a life-time...
...whole division. General Patton had ordered his 10,000 men and officers, his 1,200 vehicles (tanks, scout cars, trucks, motorcycles, etc.) to put on the division's first full review since the Second was created last July. Purpose: to see how men, officers, materiel showed up in a big maneuver. For Company D and its tall, popular commander, Major Leo F. Kengla Jr., the day was more than big: it seemed to mark the end of the old Company...
...Omaha next year Vance turns up, gets a job as scout in Creighton's line-building expedition. Vance takes one look at Creighton's pretty sister (Virginia Gilmore) and decides to go straight. But as the line of poles with its thin strand of wire moves slowly west, they meet a band of outlaws who steal their horses, turn the Indians against them, fire their camp. Leader of the outlaws is Vance's brother, Jack Slade (Barton MacLane). Vance's resolution wavers but in the end he proves worthy of Creighton's trust, dies...
...sabre. General Richardson's demonstration was a fine sight. But in their mind's eye his visitors could see attack planes, spitting death at the horsemen on the crowded slope, or diving at them during their brief massing before they could dismount and take cover; or enemy scout cars and tanks, crawling across the bondocks toward flowing (and temporarily defenseless) horsemen...