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True patriotism. Washington, D.C., March 10. Miss Myrtle Powell, Richmond, Virginia, today told the Senate Education and Labor Subcommittee that she would "defend America against all aggressors against our democracy." The statement was made shortly after Carl Ross, Executive Secretary of the Young Comminist League, refused to answer when asked if he would defend the American flag with arms against the Russian flag in the event there was a war. Miss Powell, a member of the National Business and Professional Women's Council of the Y.W.C.A., urged passage of the American Youth Act, 3/10/38

True patriotism. Washington, D.C., March 10. Miss Myrtle Powell, Richm...

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Women aircraft workers. She can't forget Pearl Harbor, and she's determined that Hitler and Hirohito shall have cause to remember it. Mrs. Evelyn J. W. Casola, Pearl Harbor widow, drills rivet holes in the belly gun door of a U.S. bomber, soon to storm over Axis lands, showing death to the aggressors

Women aircraft workers. She can't forget Pearl Harbor, and she's deter...

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Lease lend loadings. Destined, perhaps, to aid in keeping aggressors from peaceful soil, the barbed wire is being carted from pier to ship's hold where it will cross the ocean under lend-lease contract

Lease lend loadings. Destined, perhaps, to aid in keeping aggressors f...

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