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439:. As a stage performer, Mullin was billed as "The Girl With the Million Dollar Legs." When not performing, she was a renowned expert in women's saber fencing and gave public exhibitions which attracted hundreds of spectators. Mullin married O'Donnell in a civil ceremony on May 6, 1927, but they divorced soon after in 1929.
407:. All of the officials named denied any involvement in Patton's removal, and Patton himself denied ever making statements "denigrating any soldier's religion." Days later, O'Donnell was forced to retract the column, writing: "On the evidence, our statements in Capitol Stuff were untrue." Numerous advertisers boycotted the
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Although O'Donnell's allegations were refuted and the column was hastily retracted, the "fat was in the fire. The morals of the WAACs became a topic of general discussion." Denials of O'Donnell's fabrications and others like them were ineffectual. Three years after O'Donnell's column, "religious
329:, thwarting recruiting efforts in war time. O'Donnell claimed that "contraceptives and prophylactic equipment will be furnished to members of the WAACS, according to a super secret agreement reached by the high ranking officers of the War Department and the WAAC chieftain,
333:." This followed O'Donnell's June 7 column discussing efforts of women journalists and congresswomen to dispel "the gaudy stories of the gay and careless way in which the young ladies in uniform … disport themselves."
446:; their daughter, Doris, was born two years later. O'Donnell and Fleeson divorced in 1942, after their political views had begun to diverge. During his marriage to Fleeson, he worked with her on a column called
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publications were still to be found reprinting the story, and actually attributing the columnist's lines to
Director Hobby. Director Hobby's picture was labeled 'Astounding Degeneracy'."
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