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Charles Augustus Lindbergh called on War Secretary Henry L. Stimson, offered to serve his country as a soldier, preferably in the Air Corps. Mr. Stimson gave Citizen Lindbergh a job as a civilian expert, doing research on a mysterious “commercial project” for the War Department.
Airman Lindbergh took the job offered, whether he liked it or not, then ducked into the office of his old America First crony, Senator Burt Wheeler. For half an hour they chewed a dark and bitter cud, while newsmen and photographers gathered outside.
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