People: Free Agent

Laura Ingalls, pint-sized, trophy-winning aviatrix, was jailed by the FBI in Washington as an alleged propaganda agent for the Nazi Government. Speaker at many an America First gathering, peace-pamphlet "bomber" of Washington in 1939, Isolationist Laura was charged with having been on the Nazi payroll (and failing to register as an agent) since Aug. 1. She took up flying in 1928, began setting records in aerobatics in 1930. She was the first woman pilot to fly east-west nonstop coast to coast, bagged a Harmon Trophy in 1935 "I was a free agent and took...

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