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This is not the expression of an inexperienced youngster, but of a man, one who is not given ordinarily to vehemence of expression-one who is well educated and balanced in personality-and he is undoubtedly expressing the opinion of his associates as well...
...compulsory military training, a large county was heard from last week. Representatives of some 600 colleges convened at Atlantic City (Association of American Colleges), heard an urgent plea for action from General Marshall, pondered, debated, then voted (210-to-35) that: 1) they are perfectly willing for every U.S. youngster to be conscripted for a year of Army training if they are convinced that it is necessary; 2) they are still far from convinced.† Their cautious arguments for delay: 1) it is too soon to say what our military needs will be; 2) alternate plans have not been sufficiently...
...came under command of an ensign with whom he did not get along. Complained Compton: "He was an overbearing kid of about 26 or 27, and you know it's pretty hard on older men who have been in their trade 15 or 20 years to have a youngster telling them what's what...
...Puller. Chesty is Virginia-born. (In Saluda, Va., his wife and four-year-old daughter are waiting out the war.) He was a youngster of 19 when he shipped as a private in 1917. During World War I he chafed aboard ship, a bored, seagoing marine. He saw more action after the war. In Haiti he won the Haitian Military Medal. In Nicaragua he twice won the Navy Cross. He served with the Horse Marines at Pekin, with the famed Fourth at Shanghai...
...police can't watch over you always. So, until we meet, Death." The Hearst Herald-American had directed fire at the universities by calling Chicago a city where "rich universities ... get pound dogs for nothing (at the rate of 10,000 a year), while a youngster seeking a pet must shell out $8.40." After about a week of this, the City Council called a public hearing on a measure to forbid giving more dogs to laboratories...