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William Lendrum ("Billy") Mitchell, late great prophet of air power, whose refusal to be silenced led to his court-martial in 1925 for "insubordination," got a token payment on the debt owed him by the U.S. The House finally got around to passing a bill-which the Senate had already sent down twice-authorizing the award of a special Congressional Medal of Honor...
...give meaning to this liberty, both the British and the Indians must work together from the ground to achieve some social foundation on which to build a union of the Indian peoples. Education, agricultural reform, social security, and systems of public health must be strengthened beyond their present token status as newsreel scenes of British paternalism. Freedom, more than a word, is more than a constitution and a congress...
...collected has been spent on food which is now on its way overseas, the supplies already received in Paris having been sent as a small token shipment ahead of the others, the Committee revealed...
...British Government agreed to allow American manufacturers to export semi-luxury products to the United Kingdom up to 20% of the value of their average annual 1936-38 shipments, in some 38 specified categories. (Canada was already operating under a similar plan.) By mid-August, Britons should have token shipments of artificial silks, costume jewelry, paint, etc. Chief reason for the token shipments is not to please Britons but to please U.S. exporters. They complain that Britons are forgetting brand names and trademarks on which millions in advertising were spent. Now Britons will get just enough to make them remember...
Below the hill of Chartres, with its glorious Gothic tribute to the power of God, sprawls a drab and dirty token of modern man-the hutments and barbed wire of Prisoner of War Camp 501. Outwardly antithetical, camp and cathedral are both repositories of the same faith. Of the 5,000 German soldiers behind the wire, 450 are studying for the Roman Catholic priesthood under a prisoner-faculty of seven...