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After leaving the Navy, Al Williams continued to fly (for Gulf Oil Corp.). He also continued to write, plugging mightily in his Scripps-Howard newspaper column for a separate air force on a parity with the Army and Navy. The late Brig. Gen. William ("Billy") Mitchell earned fame and martyrdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Free Speech, Hell! | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

Died. Wilbur Neil Burkhardt, 50, crusading editor of the Scripps-Howard San Francisco News; of injuries received when he jumped from the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge; in San Francisco.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 8, 1940 | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

Army in 1925 for accusing the high command of incompetence, were dug up by Scripps-Howard Reporter Ruth Finney: "In future wars it will be too late to organize an air force after the contest begins." ¶ In Congress, rabid Isolationist Hamilton Fish stunned the House by voicing a solemn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Turning Point | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

To Public Powower Ickes, last week's decision was a clear mandate for San Francisco to go into the distribution business-"the proper method for meeting the requirements of the Raker Act." The citizens' seven previous refusals, said he, were "based in some measure upon misinformation." Instead of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Hetch Hetchy Contract Killed | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

To this statement Mr. Frank informally added: "I know of nothing to justify any suggestion that Mr. Willkie has had anything to do with the alleged irregularities." Scripps-Howard Columnist Ludwell Denny, accepting this disavowal at its face value, put forward another reason for doubting that SEC was aiming at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Mr. Willkie's Uncle George | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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