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...bill brought total U.S. military appropriations for World War II to a colossal $205 billion-$51billion more than the Government spent for all activities (including five other wars) from 1789 to 1940. Said New York's Republican Representative John Taber, who in other days was wont to stiffen with rage at the idea of even a million-dollar appropriation* : "Perhaps it will bankrupt us, but even that is unimportant compared with the necessity...
...effect in spite of their blusterings. Colleges will have to give a quicker, less expensive training to the great majority of men who do not want to go to graduate school, but merely want a sound general education before trying their hand at business. And they will have to stiffen the requirements for a full degree, collaborating on programs with the graduate schools, for those who intend to make their scholarly pursuits part of a life career...
...along the line the draft is getting stiffen 2-As (deferred because they hold vital jobs) will be given six months' grace while their employers look for substitutes, then once again will have to prove their indispensability as civilians. Among 3-As, deferred for dependents, draft boards will make a careful recheck. Many a husband with a self-supporting wife was deferred because the Army figured that a peacetime soldier would not be much good if he had a wife to worry about. Now the Army won't bother about his emotions...
...days later, when the Senate in Washington confirmed his permanent cormmission as a major general, Adna Chaffee was in a coma. Occasionally, his wife and doctors heard him murmur something about the U.S. flag, saw his body stiffen to attention in the bed. He had hoped to die on active service, with his tanks and troops at Fort Knox, Ky. Sick since last year, beaten by pain, he gave up his command three weeks ago and went to Boston, where he could be with his friend and physician, Dr. Edward Delos Churchill...
...Stiffen our attitude toward Vichy...