Ed Doolittle Fights Great Society Budget Plan At Country Store
Uncle Cal from Caribou relays Ed Doolittle’s mock critique of GAO using 150 workers to trace federal spending. Ed claims a $776 per person budget exists, while others debate guaranteed wages for doing no work and looting payoffs. Storekeeper supports tracking public funds.
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Ed Doolittle
Agin Everthing
Great Society
General Accounting Office
GAO
Cal Coolidge
White House
Personality Profiles: Air Force career of Jake Tennant
Jake Tennant grew up near Memphis Missouri and joined the Army Air Force to pursue travel and service. He served in World War II with the Special Services Department in China Burma India, working in Calcutta and Karachi with Maj. Melvin Douglas and Cardinal Spellman. He later noted a GAO investigative context about government cotton material contracts, reflecting on wartime and postwar procurement.
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Air Force
Jake Tennant
U.S. Air Force
Jake
Memphis
Northeast Missouri Teachers College
NYU
Welser
Idaho
Army Air Force
China
Burma
India
Special Services Department
Calcutta
Melvin Douglas
Cardinal Spellman
Karachi
CBS
Alaska to Texas to Idaho Navy veteran’s varied career tale
A man recounts a career spanning Alaska assignments at Ladd Air Force Base and Mile 26 Ellison, tasks as supervisor of four motion picture theatres, and hosting generals including Dwight Eisenhower. He later served in Scott Air Force Base, aided a quartet of airmen who became barber shop quartet champions, and assisted on a White House trip. Discharged as master sergeant at Amarillo, he worked at Pekin bank, aided Boys Club of America, then moved to Soda Springs Idaho joining Idaho First National Bank as chief clerk and leading local clubs and hobby groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Scott Air Force Base
Fairbanks
Alaska
Jake
India
Ladd Air Force Base
Army Motion Picture Theatres
Mile 26
Ellison Air Force Base
MajGen Everest
Yukon
Dwight Eisenhower
Gen. Eisenhower
Air Force Base, Ill
Scott
Special Services Department
Barber Shop
Washington, DC
Nancy B Shea
Eisenhower
Amarilo Air Force Base
Texas
Amarillo
Jerry van Dyke
First National Bank and Trust Co
Pekin
Everett Dirkson
Boys Club of America
Ee Orghese Oa
Boys Club
The
Toad
Richard Nixon
Soda Springs
Idaho First National Bank
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Caribou County
Eadh
W. E. Lansberry and
J_E LANSBERRY PUBLISHERS
County of
Caribou
City of
Village of
Bancroft
Cal
Dear Mister
Zeke Grubb
Zeke
Bug Hookum
Bug
Gieg Bear River Valley
Fual Rock
Sey
Sakers Club
Soda Spring
Trent Hey
Tosoiba
Sunkist
Carrots
Pacific Maid Oysters
Aloha
Morton
del Monte
Lallatin
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